Great post Jb but I actually think I spoke the most. Kept yelling at the TV.

This debate was a bigger FAIL than FOX. The CNN moderators spent too much time trying to get the candidates to attack each other on a personal level. (As Gov.Christie more or less pointed out.) Once again Ted Cruz and Rand Paul were treated like Third Tier candidates and essentially marginalized. The looming unfunded liability crises like SS and Medicare were not questioned nor was our crumbling infrastructure. The RNC should hold its own debate with moderators who ask more substantive questions.

Last night here in the Gulch, I noted that Rand Paul is too polite. The graph shows Paul was the only one who didn't interrupt, and that Carly the snake oil salesman interrupted the most often.
Rand shows respect for the venue, the moderator, and even the looters on the stage.
He respects the Constitution and its limitations on the President.

The rest of the candidates deserve to spend 8 years on a desert island doing a reality show that goes into a time capsule that is lost forever.

I am so glad to see others feel as I do, something if off about Carly. As I watched HP from my stockholder position, i was unhappy with actions she took. As a candidate, she is irritating and contentious. I started checking her background, from when she swore she was unaware of dealings with Iran while at HP, to her stated glorification of the Ottoman empire, and contributions of Islam, an interview in which she got a good deal of facts wrong. Not the first woman president for me. Trump has baggage, from his liberal past positions and affiliations, to his using excessive taking of private property for his commercial use. Can't say I trust him, but I do like his shaking things up and getting more straight talk. Did anyone notice how quickly the mioderaters shut down any discussion of so-called climate change? They have to be aware of the UN meeting in NYC this coming week, where Agenda 21 is rolled out as Agenda 2030, which lists changes to every aspect of our lives. That should have been explored. SS should have been explored. In a perfect world, HAARP, both Alaska and Puerto Rico installations, and THEIR effect on climate change should have been questioned.

Hello jbaker,
It is not how much you talk, but what you say... At least to those with depth. Unfortunately much of the electorate is shallow, uninformed, and easily hypnotized by shiny bobbles. Populist rhetoric is gaining ground as the understanding of founding principles are no longer taught, or extolled; they are lost and dismissed as obsolete notions of long dead white men. Paul was the most congruous with Constitutional principles, but the media, as exhibited in this debate, hardly gives him the time of day.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Who spoke the most is less important than what they had to say. If we go by that, and we should, then Rubio is the clear winner.

Good find, JBaker. Thanks for posting.

What. No comments about Carson?

The one that gets the most attention is the one used as a distraction; but in this case, just as we would in high school...pick apart the wantabe smart ass in the class. What we used to say...'Humble their ass!

This is a debate? No it is not. A debate is when the debaters take different sides of an issue or issues and attempt to convince the audience that their side is right. This spectacle on CNN was more of a Q & A livened up with a lets you and him fight now and then.