The first Republican presidential debate was last night. It's hard to keep up with everything all 10 candidates said (and that's excluding possibles like Gingrich and Robert Thompson). No one missed up to bad, though it was painfully obvious Mayor Rudy and to a lesser extent, John McCain were walking a very fine line between their positions and the party base. Interestingly enough, Mitt Romney walked it and was really on the ball, and that's review is coming from a guy who it's crazy about the guy.

As for the others:

Huckabee... um... uh... no comment...though he sure has great speech style, right?

Tom Tancredo- you could tell he was WAY out of his comfort zone, stuttering like he was being questioned by a policeman.

Brownback and Hunter- As far as could tell from what little I watched, both did well, but good luck on them breaking out of the pack.

Tommy Thompson and Jim Gilmore- Oh, I'm sorry, were they talking?

Ron Paul- After seeing this guy's Libertarian craziness, I'll state what I had said after watching Arkansas' own, Congressman Marion Berry's suspiciously slow and slurred "howdy-doody-looking-nimrod" speech that was made on the U.S. House floor:

"I think I'll have what the guy on the floor is having."