9:29 PM: I was misled into thinking this debate was only 90 minutes. Didn’t pace myself. Ran out of cleverisms. The blogging equivalent of bonking.
9:32 PM: I want to believe Herman Cain sang Alan Greenspan’s praises just to watch Ron Paul’s head explode. I could respect him for that.
9:35 PM: Over an hour and a half into the debate, and I think that was the first time Cain spoke without saying “999.” Small victories.
9:37 PM: Meanwhile, back in the real world, President Obama’s jobs bill has officially been filibustered in the Senate.
9:42 PM: At a certain level, you can’t blame Newt. His schtick has worked for so long, why change it now? So you get things like this:
There’s a stream of American thought that really wishes we would decay and fall apart and that the future would be bleak so that the government can share the misery. It was captured by Jimmy Carter in his malaise speech. It’s captured every week by Barack Obama in his apologias disguised as press conferences.
9:45 PM: The average low-information voter isn’t going to be exposed to any account of this debate that includes this necessary corrective: The prescription for economic recovery offered by the Republican presidential field is completely divorced from reality.
9:52 PM: At least Mitt didn’t join in the “I was born in a log cabin” hagiography parade.
