Ding! Mesa Debate Over --for Me

I left them at Iran. I have no idea who the audience was supposed to be for this debate. We know Mitt bussed in the audience and acted like the arrogant guy he is. Newt basically chilled out but on occasion threw out a line like Obama is a baby-killer. The three tried to make Santorum the leftist on birth control. Mitt lied like hell about birth control in Massachusetts. He tried to transcend the extended and bizarre discussion on contraception by invoking Barack Obama's attack on religion.

If you think you can become leader of the free world by engaging in an extended debate on ear-marking--think again.

You know these are a bunch of baby boomers when Romney says he was off "fighting for the Olympics" while Santorum was voting for the Bridge to Nowhere. So fighting for the Olympics is equivalent to being at war.

Romney bragged about balancing the budget four times in Massachusetts without reminding anyone that he had to--by law.

The two Catholics did not have ash on their foreheads. And I thought Santorum was fighting Satan.

Romney doubled down on his anti-immigration language, hailing Arizona for its inane law and he defended Sheriff Araio(?)--I always think he is Sheriff Arapaho. Even Santorum picked up that the nativist sheriff has some big league legal problems and is not just being picked on by the DOJ.

All the candidates dodged the question on women in combat because they alienated almost every woman by the time they got done discussing contraception, abortion and family values.

Romney tried to make like Santorum was a lefty for supporting Arlen Specter and for a variety of bills he supported in the Senate. Ron Paul, who is acting strangely as a Romney surrogate these days,called Santorum a fake. It might be that Rand Paul has been mentioned as Willard's running mate.

Basically, Santorum was the subject of all the attacks and weathered it better than Mitt. Any time Romney got challenged his back went up and he exuded his condescending attitude.

Virtually none of them made any sense.We will have to see the polls in the next few days. The last breaking poll had Santorum sneaking up on Romney in Arizona.

Hopefully this will be the last debate for awhile. They are not even fun anymore. Romney still is a great liar.