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I found last night’s debate so messy and scattered that I had a hard time knowing quite what to make of it. But here’s my take. As a debate, I thought it was terrible. Very disorganized. The moderation was close to not there at all. Perhaps it was that we’ve been through this routine so many times there wasn’t much more to say or to ask. I don’t know. One of the funnier moments for me was when Newt apparently got tired of waiting for a host to say something that outraged him and just attacked the host anyway, to pretty poor effect. Read More
The Jacksonville Republican debate boiled down into 100 uproarious seconds.
9:13 PM: It’s not worth getting angry about? What did that even mean?
9:13 PM: Dead to rights. It’s amazing that it took 19 debates but Santorum finally got Romney dead to rights on his plan being more or less identical to Obama’s.
A lot of these debates have been pretty bad. But this strikes me as the most disjointed debate I think I’ve ever seen. The moderation is poor. The candidates seem to be the campaign equivalent of punch drunk. What do you think?
8:53 PM: I think this debate is a bigger mess than any of the previous ones.
8:56 PM: Newt started off strong but this extended digression on space and moon states. Just not happening.
8:59 PM: When I was a little kid I used to watch those great Ali fights when you had these two heavyweights exhausted in the late rounds. Got sloppy. Messy. About like this debate.
9:01 PM: Newt started pretty strong. And then Mitt got in that pretty embarrassing spot where he said he hadn’t seen one of his own ads and denied it even being his ad. A classic Mitt moment. But since then Newt’s just been all over the place and he’s given Mitt all sorts of opportunities to come in and be the grown up. Not good for Newt.
9:04 PM: Mitt: I’d fire anyone who bought me a moon base.