A boring affair

Last night's GOP debate was boring.

Standing and cheering at the GOP debate

Juan Williams questioned Newt Gingrich about his recent comments that black Americans should "demand jobs, not food stamps," and that Obama is a "Food Stamp President." When asked if he could see why these comments might be insulting to African-Americans, Gingrich said flatly, "No, I don't see that."

He then went onto [sic] propose a janitorial program that would allow students to do light janitorial work while continuing their studies, paying them and teaching them the value of work. He said that they would be earning money, "which is a good thing if you're poor. Only the elites despise earning money."

Gingrich responded, "The fact is more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history."

He proclaimed, "I believe every American of every background has been endowed by their Creator with the right to pursue happiness, and if that makes liberals unhappy, I'm going to continue to find ways to help poor people learn how to get a job, learn how to get a better job, and learn someday to own the job.

"The White House has denied Gingrich's claim about Obama's being the "Food Stamp President," but

Gingrich fired back, arguing that blaming the country's economic problems on the previous administration "was true in January of 2009" but "in the three years since then it has been Obama's policies which have weakened the economy, crippled American energy, and put Americans on food stamps."

Media bias was obvious in the recent GOP debate

The WSJ ponders George Stephanopoulos and media bias. No matter who the winning candidate is, there are more Stephanopoulos moments ahead.

Barone: Romney "clinched" the nomination

Michael Barone reviews last night's GOP debate:

At about 10:28pm tonight, as Mitt Romney pivoted from a question on tax loopholes and started in with, “the real issue is vision,” I had recorded this thought in my notes, “He just clinched the nomination.”

I fail to understand why Republicans tolerate someone like George Stephanopoulos as moderator.

For more on George's lack of fairness during the debate see here. 

Another debate

Krauthammer's Take on the latest GOP debate. He sees this debate as reflecting the tone of the campaign. Okay, let them stop debating.

Barone on the debates

Michael Barone gives his reaction to last night's GOP debates.
He says, "ABC moderators Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos were perhaps overdosed with saccharine." Overdosed? Or their usual dose?

What is your distingwishwing characteristic?

Ann Althouse followed last night's GOP debate. The best way to learn what happened is to read her comments. I like this one:

8:05 CT: Diane Sawyer talks to us as though we're children. It's ridiculous. I think she just saluted the candidates for their hard work. Then she asked them what their "distingwishwing" characteristic is. Yeesh! This will be a long night.

I love to hate Diane Sawyer, lol.

Michelle Bachmann talked about a new entity: "Newt Romney." Also funny. 

Gingrich vs Romney: Saturday Night Fight

Since Gingrich comes to tonight's debate with "front-runner status," I take that as another sign that Republicans don't want Romney.

"Saturday Night Fight" is Drudge's term.