Santorum is not evil, but he is completely establishment and has never been anything but in all his history. The only reason he did well tonight was that he and Paul were actually the only ones allowed by the moderator to concentrate on issues.
The mod was too busy trying to feed Gingrich to Romney on a personal level to even let Newt speak about the issues for almost the entire first half of the debate, even though Gingrich did at one point say that he wanted to talk about the things that mattered and not about these personal “gotcha” points.
Did you notice how many question ended with Newt Gingrich said xxxxx, basically pitching a softball and inviting an attack on Newt, I was disgusted with Wolf. And Santorum plagiarizing a Newt speech at the end of a debate finished Santorum for me. Not that I was ever going to vote Santorum, but that was a bit much.
Well said. In a true debate, as opposed to this stilted media circus, I suspect Gingrich would eat everyone else’s lunch.