They laughed, chuckled and scribbled but mostly they laughed. Both Herman Cain and Mitt Romney were feeling themselves at last night’s Bloomberg/Washington Post Presidential Debate. As the top two candidates(at least this week) they were, for sure, the target of jabs and numerous questions.  The rest of the hanger-ons or should we call them the 99 percenters were just there. Let’s see Michele Bachmann cited her same old talking points and brought up the devil being in the details of the Cain’s 999 plan, flip those nines and you’ve got sixes(and in her mind the sign of the beast). Gingrich continued with his crazy statements(arrest Barney Frank and Chris Dodd for their role in the financial crisis), Rick Perry…was he even there because he was sooo quiet. In his head I bet what he was saying sounded like Dubya, “This debatey thing is tough.” On the fringes were Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman who cracked me up with some of their statements. Of Cain’s 999 plan Huntsman said he  thought it was the price of a pizza. Santorum quickly jabbed at the 999 plan as well asking the audience for a show of hands if they wanted taxes raised, of course no hands went up. Ron Paul was Ron Paul, he hates everything especially the Federal Reserve.

Last nights debate was pretty interesting, at least Charlie Rose allowed them to finish a sentence unlike CNN’s John King and they had good questions like the Fox News debate but unlike the MSNBC debate. Rose’s interview style is more relaxed and the roundtable made it seem more intimate. Did you know there have already been nine Republican debates going back to May of this year and there are 13 more by March of next year. That’s a lot of debating but by the end of this year some will fall by the wayside and that opens the way for them to come to a Fox News channel near you because you know that’s where some of them will end up. I’ve even have an idea for a show, Twenty-eight Is Enough starring Michele, Marcus and the 28 children they single-handedly raised without sucking on the government’s teat(NOT). It promises to be a hoot.

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