What Sullivan said.

Huntsman I can understand and appreciate. Perry is an empty bad suit. Romney lies with such facility it unnerves me. Bachmann is a fanatic, as, although I am extremely fond of him, is Ron Paul. Santorum just seems like a lost child from the 1950s, trying to have the campaign he dreamed about when he was ten. Cain is an egomaniac businessman with a talk show host patter and a mild wit. Gingrich is a giant, gaseous asshole.

--Summing up the field post-debate.

This paragraph made me nod a lot. Huntsman looks out of place--he's just a reasonable, not-crazy person. That this should be so out of place is a very bad sign for the rest of the primaries.  Perry--a wet firecracker.  Not the sharpest tool in the shed, or rather, drop the "not the sharpest" and "in the shed" and that might also apply. Romney doesn't so much lie, as deliver the statements of his most recent programming. It's the uncanny valley effect that unnerves me. Bachmann joked about Cain's 999 plan as being an upside-down 666 plan--just as with her statements not long ago suggesting the earthquake and hurricane around the DC area might be a message from God about government spending, she's just odd enough that it's hard to tell when she's joking. Rick Santorum as a lost child--full stop?  But no, he really does seem as if all of history since the 1950's (sexual revolution, Stonewall, end of the Cold War, etc.) has just been too much for his poor wee head to accept.  Herman Cain has the kind of confident blather that makes you half-think he knows what he's talking about.  He doesn't. (Uzbeki-wha?)

And oooohhhh yes.  Gingrich is a huuugge, gaseous asshole, indeed.

I've never liked Ron Paul, but agree he's a fanatic. I haven't liked him since I read a handful of Reason articles that seemed "crushy" on him back in 2007 or 2008 (Reason--why do they call it that?!) but have only come to think he's even more horrible as time passes. (Racist supporters. Rand.  No ideas about social contracts. I could go on.) He's so fringe I'm not sure he's part of the same cushion.

Ah well.  Luckily, this sort of thing isn't even how we determine who's fit to be a leader of the whole country or anythi....

Christ.