The debate lineup tonight is Romney in the center flanked by Gingrich on his left and Santorum on his right, who are flanked in turn by Paul on the left and Perry on the right.

They’re still fielding questions as I write this but I’ve heard enough. They’re all pretty erudite, very smooth, articulate and knowledgeable, with some exception to that in the case of Paul, whose age is apparent. Some of his responses were pretty disjointed. Paul gets flustered easily and then stammers. Even so, he said a lot of things that most of the crowd liked, such as reducing the income tax back to where it was in 1913, when it was zero.

Of them all, only Paul seems to me to be truly sincere in what he says. The rest are all guilty of posturing and spouting political cliches. Paul is the only one who doesn’t seem to care what people think of his views and doesn’t come off as too slick. To me, slick equates with devious and untrustworthy.

After hearing them all, I’d be a whole lot happier with any of them than with Obama. Listening to this Republican debate makes me compare it to the Bush/Gore debate. In a word, there’s no comparison. Bush’s answer to a lot of the questions was to simply repeat “That’s what leaders do”, making him sound like a complete moron, while Gore was nervous and high strung and put everyone off. I didn’t want either one of those fools as my president. This time around is different. It doesn’t matter which one they pick, these are all intelligent people and any one of the five would make a good president.

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