Because it wasn’t televised, because it was on a Saturday night and because Mitt Romney wasn’t there, you probably missed one of the most bizarre debates of the primary season over the weekend in Iowa.
There was doom, gloom and talk of Christian persecution from the gathered candidates. Newt Gingrich told those dirty hippies in the Occupy movement to (literally) bathe and get a job. Then most of the candidates on stage cried.
It was weird. Just how weird? Check out this clip from the beginning of the debate when Michele Bachmann, unprompted, decides to go around the pumpkin-laden table her opponents were seated around (it was called the Thanksgiving Forum) and pour water in all their glasses.
“I’m used to it Frank!” Bachmann said when the moderator, Frank Luntz, made a joke about her picking up the water duty. “I’ve poured a lot of water in my time.”
And that was the just the intro. Here’s the clip:
You can watch the debate here.
