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Expanding on your own points:

Romney - Agree on all counts but likable. He's both the snake charmer and the snake. Don't trust him at all and can't see myself voting if he's the nominee, but I know he has the "likable" factor which worries me.

Bachmann - She's been amateurish with the repitition the past, but I think she's getting better. The 999 line was just good fun. But I also think we can find better in this group.

Cain - I've been looking, but I haven't seen anything that tells me "not ready" yet. He has grace under fire (like the recent O'Donnell interview) and I think it speaks volumes to his character. One of my tops right now.

Newt - I've done a 180 on Newt. I actually no longer "get" the baggage angle - he's answered well everything that's been asked. Probably head of the class. (I love that so many said he'd make a good VP in the other debate...I'm fine with that.)

Perry - Nothing special tonight, but he lost me in the past debates. Weak on border and I don't trust him on economics. I also thought the "if you don't agree with subsidizing illegals, then you don't have a heart" line spoke volumes to his character.

Santorum - Good man. Hope his stock keeps rising, if only to get in as VP or a cabinet spot.

I notice you missed a couple (perhaps rightfully so):

Ron Paul - lost me on the 9/11 is our fault and iran questions. if only they could've brought up the fbi story of iran and mexico tonight for him and perry to answer...

Jon Huntsman - needs to go. He'd make a great 1980s Democrat candidate, but he's not what we need right now. I wish the senate passing the China sanctions bill would've been raised tonight too...oh well, another day.

The other guy (Gary Johnson) - also needs to go. I thought he had already gone until the last debate, since he rarely bothers with these things.

Frankly, I see a lot a few good pairings out there. As a man alone, Newt. But for every weakness a strong candidate has, there seems to a pairing that compliments - e.g. take Cain and the knocks on foreign diplomacy and just add Santorum to offset it.

I can't wait until the field gets cut in half (at least) so these debates have more substance.