Benjy Sarlin explains how the ‘Israel Issue’ could cost Dems Anthony Weiner’s old seat today in New York’s 9th district.

There was some disagreement among the staffers at TPM tonight about who did well and who didn’t in tonight’s debate. I thought it was another weak performance by Perry. Yes, he got off a number of lines that got applause from this crowd. But he mainly did it by doubling down on toxic lines of rhetoric like his suggestion that the Fed Chair might be guilty of treason. His attempts to walk back his earlier comments about Social Security struck me as confused and strained. (See the back and forth with Mitt on Social Security.) Read More

Relive the moment when Rick Santorum mixed up “illegal[s]” and “Latinos”. Watch it.

Crowd goes hog wild as Perry doubles down on Bernanke Treason.

The quick rundown of the Romney/Perry set-to on Social Security.

Santorum: “What what Gov. Perry has done is he provided in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, maybe that was an attempt to attract illegal — I mean Latino — voters.” Watch.

Maybe the weirdest moment of the night was when Jon Huntsman told Rick Perry: “For Rick to say you can’t secure the border is pretty much a treasonous comment.” But that’s the thing. I don’t think snark is Tea Party. Neither is Kurt Cobain.

For more background on Perry and Gardasil see Benjy Sarlin’s piece from last month.

8:50 PM: Not being in the campaign has really liberated Newt.

8:57 PM: Perry’s attempt on Social Security “Slam-Dunk Guaranteed”. Watch the video.

9:05 PM: Mitt had the crowd on fire with the part about VAT taxes being refundable under WTO.

9:12 PM: That was a great expression on Perry’s face when he realized that the logic of his response to Bachmann was that $5,000 was way too little to buy him.

9:12 PM: Headline on email just sent out from the Bachmann campaign: “Rick Perry’s Crony Capitalism: The 2007 Vaccination Executive Order Fiasco”

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