Live Debate Blogging

7:20 PM … Mittmentum!

7:25 … I was hoping we’d get to each of the candidates scholarship on Muslim radicalism.

7:29 PM … Good words there from Rudy about the Muslim religion and Muslims, but completely belied by his recent scary Muslims ad.

7:37 PM … Sigh. That must have been fun for Mitt. Charlie Gibson had to be honest that Mitt’s flipflopping goes without saying.

That’s what we need — more Americans buying health care outside of big risk pools.

A TPM Reader makes an interesting point: “Didn’t Giuliani open a dangerous door when he said that he returned that million dollar cheque to that Saudi prince, when his security consultancy firm did business with Qatar which was overseen by Qatar’s Minister of the Interior, Abdullah bin Khalifah Al Thani who apparently has ties to various terrorist groups?”

7:51 PM … This really is the heart of Republican thinking on health care these days: ordinary folks aren’t being thrifty enough and taking the cost into account enough when they decide whether to get that MRI the doctor ordered.

Romney’s actually the only guy up there who has any policy on health care, any experience dealing with the actual issue. But he’s not making that case very well. Especially against a stuffed shirt like Thompson.

8:00 PM … Mitt: “Doing the work of the Free Market.” For Mitt, that’s like “Doing the Lord’s Work.”