Mike, my impression was the questions were designed to make the Republicans look like a fringe party mainly concerned with hoisting the Confederate flag and gay-bashing.

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Ron won the debate with his answers on the war, war on drugs, and health care.

Plus, his leading opponents shot themselves in the foot by chickening out.

I have a feeling the black community is ready to dump big government after witnessing its devastating effects for the last several decades.

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I didn’t score this one but Ron Paul did very well on all questions and was particularly strong on the war and foreign policy. Tough and terse. If they gave him a chance on the IRS question, I must have been making my eggs because I missed it.

He is again winning the post-debate polls. Drudge and ABC. The way it works is when you go back to check the results, there is no option for voting again because they know you already voted, so the spamming charge is a canard.

I thought Romney did very poorly but the establishment press likes the guy. Go figure.

Rudy gave a nice answer applying supply side economics to the infrastructure controversy.

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I notice that whenever the Republican debate is discussed on MSNBC, Ron Paul always comes up. This morning, a woman reporter said: “Well, that’s the big three, but what other candidate might break out of the pack?” A male reporter: “Ron Paul. He could be the Mike Gravel of this debate, the Angry Libertarian.” Tucker Carlson: “But Ron Paul is the Nice Libertarian.” Male reporter: “I like to think of him as the Angry Libertarian, preparing to blow up…I’d better be careful here-…federal legislation.”

Funny, buddy, since Ron Paul is the only peace candidate, the only one of these people who actually opposes blowing up people and property. BTW, tonight, Ron will be positioned on stage between hyper-warmongers McCain and Giuliani. And he will indeed be the star.

UPDATE: Randall Dietz writes to say that the male reporter this morning was “Chuck Todd, formerly of the National Journal now the Political Director for NBC.”

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