August 11th Fox News Iowa presidential debate **live commentary thread**

[King]

I agree with Jon Huntsman.  I don't want public schools seceding from the union.

[King]

Thank you, Jon, for bringing sanity to the debt ceiling debate.

Unfortunately, it only generated two claps so the Republican Party really is lacking sanity and it's not just the candidates.

[King]

Rick Santorum made a terrific case to consider voting for other candidates in his closing remarks.


lol @ Mitt Romney trying to pass himself off as somebody who wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

[King]

Tim "Cliche" Pawlenty: "God! Conservative! God bless America! Freedom!"

[King]

Huntsman is a far better establishment candidate than Romney.  He better hope people from New Hampshire watched tonight.  He isn't going anywhere in Iowa.

[King]

This was quite entertaining, but I honestly cannot see any of these people as our President.

Indeed.  The new cast of the Real World: Republican Party has excellent chemistry.

[King]

Huntsman is a far better establishment candidate than Romney.  He better hope people from New Hampshire watched tonight.  He isn't going anywhere in Iowa.

I felt so sorry for him.  The worst thing is that he sounded most articulate and emphatic when he was speaking his heresies.  No one is going to accidentally bumble into support of him because of his personal narrative, because he apparently can't express it in any sort of meaningful way.

Probably because everything that wasn't heresy were the only pandering lies he could muster.

Tim Pawlenty might as well paint his face and wear a big red nose and clown costume to the next debate. He'd be taken more seriously.

[King]

There should be a "caption this" contest on this picture:

Pawlenty: "Vice Presidential candidate over here.  Any takers? Anyone? When's Rick Perry showing up?"