The "debate," in 10 seconds flat

My hat is off to the Post's Chris Cillizza, Fox's viewer of last night's Republican presidential debate. Yes, Chris stuck it out, the courageous fellow, and here's the totality what he learned after 90 grueling minutes:

Tim Pawlenty is "aggressive," mawkish, and a piss-poor comedian. Rick Santorum is formulaic to the point of being canned. Ron Paul is formulaic to the point of being ... Ron Paul. Herman Cain has a good memory, and he's glib. Gary Johnson is Calvin Coolidge's understudy.

There. Now you can tell your friends at that cocktail party tonight that you watched the debate out of a sense of civic responsibility, and sound like an authority on it.

Comments

[Dorothy Rissman]

I watched the whole debate. I was curious about the Great Greenwald and his interest in Gary Johnson. I thought he was boring and had absolutely no presence.

Apparently, Herman Cain won the debate. It was not difficult to figure out why. He threw red meat to the angry teabagger and neocon types. They loved to hear him flaying Obama.

[creolechild]

I wonder if John Huntsman will end up at the top of the heap. He's quietly gearing up to jump into the race but is keeping a low profile. Maybe the strategy is to let Pawlenty, Bachman, Paul, Romney, Huckabee, and others to have the spotlight--knowing what the reactions will be. They will then counter those candidates by offering up Huntsman as a moderate Republican who can appeal to a large percentage of Republicans, who haven't gone off the deep end, and Independents.

[Alli]

@Dorothy: the right wing loves an Uncle Ruckus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ruckus