I’d say Guilliani suffered the most. He seemed defensive quite a bit. Romney did pretty well, but personally he comes off a little slick. McCain came across much better than he did in past debates, and Thompson did well with the opportunities he had, but they were few. Huckabee seemed the most relaxed. Tancredo and Hunter weren’t much of a factor, and Paul was — Paul.

Give it to Mitt on style points. Rudy on debate points. McCain scored on Iraq. Thompson - ultimately disappointing in that he didn’t do himself any good.

The rest are irrelvant.

Oh yeah… no bias by CNN there.

I rest my case.

Popular with SOME republicans.

And I support gun rights but is it really necessary to see Rambo up there cocking his gun?

chooses questions that elicit responses from candidates that damage them with the rest of the country.

Do you believe every word of the bible? Was the earth created 6,000 years ago?

The very act of approving that question is insulting.

The tone of these questions was night and day different than the ones presented to the Democrats.

Most of these questions were desgined to trap the candidates into answers popular with the GOP base but not very popular with the country as a whole.

The Democratic questions were designed to get the candidate talking about the issues and drawing differences with other candidates.

There were also questions (as in the Dem debate) that were chosen to make segments of the GOP base look like idiots (Gun nuts, Jesus freaks, bible thumpers, etc).

Jazz, I don’t see how McCain scored. He put words in Romney’s mouth that he never said.

On the air at The MacRanger Show!

It’s been great!

Have to beg to differ, was in on a few “ticking” situations in the early 80s.

I was WB during SB training. Yes I volunteered, but it’s not the worst we went through in during the training.

Remember, it’s only been done three times in the last five years.

Ron Paul is truly an idiot. To believe that having a base with 20,000 airmen in Saudi Arabia was akin to occupying that country shows Paul to be unworthy of any office above dog catcher.

Everything I’ve read on the issue from the professional interrogators indicates we dont need torture to get the information.

And yes, waterboarding is torture.

McCain is right - Jack Bauer is fiction. There is never a ticking clock scenario. And what some of our people have done at various places around the world has redounded to our shame.

White Smoke… LOL. As a Catholic, thats funny

Romney - better. Huckathing - still oozing. Thompson - not making the most of his opportunities but not too bad. McCain - not enough chances to shine.

Paul, Hunter, Tancredo - get off the stage please

With exception of the illegal immigration exchange with Romney, Huckabee is knocking it out the park.

Good answers on the Bible. As expected from a Baptist Minister.