First of all, let’s talk about structure of this debate.  Bloomberg TV?  You could round up all of the people watching and cram them into a clown car.  You take the most important issue facing America – the economy – and you put that debate on television network with fewer viewers than MSNBC?  You have to wonder why the candidates agreed to a debate that was going to have so little coverage.  And speaking of MSNBC … let’s talk about the panel or the moderators asking the questions … I don’t see how these GOP candidates could face a more liberal panel, unless they were lined up in front of Al Sharpton, Ed Shultz, Rachael Madcow, He of the Tingly Legs and the rest of the MSNBC Libtards.  We might play with some of the ObamaMedia questions on the show today.

The first question went to Herman Cain, showing that he is finally seen as a front-runner.  The first applause line went to Newt Gingrich with his comments on the ObamaMedia (my words, not his) and their failure to investigate the Fed:

Everybody in the media who wants to go after the business community ought to start by going after the politicians who have been at the heart of the sickness which is weakening this country, and ought to start with Bernanke who has still not been exposed for the hundreds of billions of dollars (applause) .. let me say, I want to repeat this.  Bernanke has in secret spent bailing out one group and not bailing out another group.  I don’t see anybody in the news media demanding the kind of transparency at the Fed that you would demand of every other aspect of the federal government, and I think it is corrupt and it is wrong for one man to have that kind of secret power.

When it came time for the candidates to answer questions, most of them were posed to Mitt Romney, showing that he still seems to be the front-runner.  But the issue that took the most heat was Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan.  Herman did a pretty good job of defending the plan.  I, along with the audience, particularly liked the line:

Therein lies the difference between me, the politician, and all the other politicians.  They want to pass what they think they can get passed, rather than what we need which is a bold solution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCwpLPQEEj8