(Yeah, some of us watched so you didn't have to)

Debate watchers - did I miss any other insanity?

• Frothy Mixture Santorum kept dropping the 'polygamy' word into the gay marriage debate as a dig on Romney.
  
• Bachmann's strategy was to attack Pawlenty. Pawlenty all but picked up his podium and hit her over the head with it.
  
• Frothy Mixture broke the sancrosanct GOP rule that states "Ignore Ron Paul" by not only calling attention to him every time he spoke, but provoking him.
  
• Ron Paul was all "fuck your little bell I'm not done speaking".
  
• Newt kept whining about "gotcha questions" (Chris Wallace asked him about his staff quitting) and alternately kept telling people how much he reminds himself of Reagan.
  
• Frothy Mixture raged about gay marriage destroying the country, but feels that Iran is the most evil place on earth because of how they "trample on gay rights".
  
• Multiple Choice Mitt wants to replace unemployment INSURANCE with an undefined "account" for "all Americans" and finally,
  
• Huntsman defended the fact that 10k of his 12k employees are in India/China being due to the "EPA's reign of terror in regulations" preventing him from opening factories in the US.
  

People, you really can't make this shit up.


A few choice post-debate tweets:

@howardfineman
Obama's best (maybe only) chance: edit this debate to an hour and run it on TV nationally every week from now until Election Day.

@JohnFugelsang
Gentlemen, I give you the Obama Re-election committee.

So, this administration wants to run 6 unfunded wars (Iraq, Vietganistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Sudan) and pay for them on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens - our seniors.

Just how much is someone 65/66 going to have to pay for the 'mandated' medical insurance coming in 2014? Add to that, if they aren't working and can't get into a group plan? Another giveaway to the insurance cabal right there.

If Medicare is struggling, why not raise the amount we are paying into it? Yes, we are living longer, so fine. Up the entrance fee.

Where are our priorities as a nation? The mere thought of this has me grinding my teeth in anger.

I am sure that these trial balloons are being launched by the administration on purpose to try to back Republicans into a corner, but it is going to backfire on them HUGE. They underestimate the stupidity of the masses.

All of those idiot teabaggers with their "keep the government out of my Medicare" signs are going to hang a cut in Medicare around the collective Democratic neck for a generation while the Republicans claim they tried to 'stop it'.

/rant