From my GOP debate notebook:
- My One-word review: Mitt ("unflappable"); Newt ("tiresome"); Santorum ("sad"); Paul ("gone"); Perry ("foolish"); Huntsman ("pretty").
- Debate reversal: Candidates played their own drinking game: How many times would moderators ask about gay marriage instead of jobs?
- Even sadder than debate itself, ABC pundits desperately pretending it was interesting.
- 2nite Mitt paid 20% dn, passed on debt 2 others & collected a fortune in dividends before bankruptcy. O wait, that was Bain Cap.
- Romney rivals would have kissed his ass tonight but ABC wisely kept podiums too far apart.
- Romney wins again by keeping his hands in his pockets.
- Debate followed by yet another Fred Thompson commercial hawking an insurance fraud to seniors. Perfect!
- Diane Sawyer thanks our families for watching but made sure debate not about anything we care about.
- Yep Perry would be at a shooting range in the dark. Even Cheney is afraid of that.
- What's more exciting? Googling "Santorum" or whatever Huntsman just said in Chinese?
- Thanks to this debate, CVS commercials are absolutely riveting.
- Oops, Huntsman spoke Chinese -- I'll bet he watched Frank Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate with captions.
- Mitt "Bain" Romney -- you probably killed more jobs than China.
- Mitt says his tax plan for those who "desperately need help" (thus his 150k cut for millionaires).
- Mitt , you say Barack wants European welfare state, but you're the one who speaks French.
- Wow, Diane Sawyer just heard jobs worth talking about. Kudos to those ace ABC producers.
- Gary Johnson is kicking ass tonight.
- I drifted off but think I heard Perry say he'd send more troops to Afghanistan by re-invading Iraq with North Korean missiles.
- But what about Bachmann's 23 foster kids? Somebody, please!
- Can't somebody say "999" just for the hell of it?
- C'mon Huntsman, Asia topic is your chance to speak Chinese. Would make more sense than anything Perry says.
- Closest we've gotten to a jobs discussion: Gay marriage employs more preachers.
- Best evidence GOP has lost gay marriage debate: Only Perry wants to talk about it.
- Guess Perry will have to pass gas to get a question
- Mitt: "Contraception is working just fine" -- until Bain Capital buys Trojan and cuts costs.
- Mitt wants contraception. See, he's a moderate.
- Is this a debate or the new season of The Apprentice? Mitt to rivals: You're fired!
- Mitt headed for the pool, orders fruity cocktail.
- Paul dings Newt, who claims he "served" by worrying about his father in service.
- Newt defends chicken hawk claim citing his life-threatening days as a teacher.
- So far George's Bain Cap questions only possible game changer here but Mitt rivals too afraid to take on his 1-percenter pals.
- Mitt rivals wimping out, job applications to follow.
- Sorry Perry, Mitt wanted to be a Washington insider, but couldn't get elected.
- Mitt watching Rick and Ron show, hands in pockets, thinking, "We're done here."
- Santorum skips Mitt Bain opportunity, fights with Paul instead. So dumb.
- Yeah, Mitt, we don't need gov't telling companies how to run things, when job killers like you can come in and shut them down for profit.
- Go George go, finally a Bain Cap question. Mitt rivals afraid of that angle.
- Oops, Santorum trashing CEOs, there goes his super PAC funding.
- Missing Michele, this thing looks like frat officers trying to get more school funding.
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