willbeurdaddy
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Winners/Losers: Everyone presented a clear, well thought out position on security and immigration. They were all on similar pages except Ron Paul, who was the only signficant loser. He was destroyed by Gingrich with the McVeigh succeeded response and Paul looked like he was going to cry, he looked disoriented most of the night, and his message could only appeal to the smallest fringe of libertarians. The Paulie's will continue to fund his futile effort but his chances turned from slim to none. The GOP approach against Obama was also laid out very clearly, and anyone will be able to implement it because he has been such a poor representative of the US. His only successes, killing bin Laden and a couple of other radical Muslim leaders, will be easily blunted because they were accomplished using policies that he campaigned against, and the "bravery" of his decisions is an asinine argument. The potential downside for passing on bin Laden was being laughed out of office, instead of what will be a tight popular vote (but not that tight electoral vote). Romney and Gingrich should have started to distance themselves, just by virtue of the fact that they made no mistakes and supporters of the rest of the field should be recognizing that their candidate has little chance. Huntsman should get a small bump because the depth of his foreign policy experience came through, but he's just too far behind and lacks credibility on other issues to make a big move.
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