It is imperative that Obama is defeated next November. Whatever the flaws of our current crop of candidates, they're all miles better than he is. What I'd personally like to see is all of these people excelling in debates, so that we can feel good about the chances of whomever manages to win the nomination.
So why the joy over one of the frontrunners having a bad night? Is this all about hoping that the current crop all screws up so that someone else not yet in the race might choose to enter? Is that it?
Because what happens if said person chooses not to run? What then? Should we all just take joy in the fact that whomever does win the nomination will screw up and lose to Obama?
I don't get this. It's like who wins the GOP nomination is so personal to some folks that it trumps the goal of replacing the clown currently occupying the White House. "If my person doesn't win (well, first run), I'm just going to take my ball and go home, and a pox on all the rest of you."
It's gotten pathetic.
Nicely said.
I think you are misreading that greatly. It's not joy, but relief that a man who has a suspect record as a conservative is being exposed by his own performance.
After a couple of months of PR on FR, his record is coming to light, and his inability to articulate and defend himself on his feet is being shown as well.
It's far better to see that now than to buy what he's being packaged as and have buyers remorse later.