re: #806 Killgore Trout

Newt was pretty pissed about some of the questions. But the format of the debate really didn’t highlight economic issues very well and let the candidates skate by with very vague answers about specifics. It’s going to get much tougher when the moderators and non-Fox employees. The GOP candidates are in for quite a shock when their buzzwords are no longer tolerated as answers.

It already was tougher when they debated on CNN. They do that at least once more. But it’s really hard to measure a candidate from these early “cattle show” debates. We need to wait till marginal candidates like Santorum and Cain are gone to really see what the major candidates can do.