The Audience is Back!

The audience is back, but Cranky Ron Paul got the laughs and most of the cheers were not for Newt.

There was the usual sparring about who is the most anti-immigrant (Jeb Bush says, in Spanish, that neither Newt or Mitt can win over Hispanics), why does Mitt have so much money, why does Ron Paul want to be friends with the Castro brothers, why they all hate Romneycare and Obamacare, and why is Suits Santorum still on the stage.

Newtie reiterated his theory of the war on religion to loud audience cheers, and talked about the importance of the president having core faith and living that faith everyday. Earlier, speaking on a radio show he said that same sex marriage is a pagan behavior. Guess he doesn't think one man, two women is "pagan behavior."

13.9%er Romney said he'd fire anyone with an idea of spending hundreds of million of dollars to colonize the moon. Miss Liberty would absolutely vote for Newt if he would promise to live there.

Fuzzy math has always been a republican affectation, but when Cranky Ron Paul called Newt out over his claims of balancing the budget, and Newt began to bloviate, the audience booed him.

The most demeaning question of all the debates was put to all four candidates. Why would his wife make a great first lady? Wolf Blitzer didn't specify which of Newtie's wives they were asking about, but his answer that Callista plays the french horn might be a reason to look at the other two.

Miss Liberty thanks any higher power for the fact that the next panelette is not until February 22. Who knows, by then there may be only one candidate on the stage, and we might get some real answers - unlike this latest Florida get together where revisionist memory of the past and truly scary policy for the future was the take away for the evening.