http://www.youtube.com/republicandebate

• 8:32PM - Paul gets his first question. It’s about the NAU, CFR and conspiracies that his supporters believe. Looks like I was correct that they would try to make Paul and/or his supporters look bad. He answers it well.
• 8:37PM - What top 3 federal programs/organizations should be cut to save money. Thompson spins the question and talks about SSI. Paul doesn’t say IRS unfortunately but Huckabee picks up on that and does… gets good applause for it.
• 8:41PM - McCain attacks Paul on being an isolationist and receives a round of mixed boos and cheers. Paul’s reply has mixed response. Cooper cuts him off while not cutting off Rudy and Mitt at the beginning.
• 8:45PM - Paul pledges not to raise taxes but points out unlike the others that they need to cut spending.
• 8:46PM - Romney and Giuliani make excuses to support corn subsidies.
• 9:00PM - Rudy supports gun regulation and current gun laws.
• 9:09PM - Paul states that a woman should not be charged if she has an abortion. Primarily that it’s not a federal function.
• 9:24PM - Rudy says that he will make Muslims not hate us by keeping strong on islamofascism. I’m pretty sure that’s the reason they are pissed in the first place.
  
• 9:26PM - McCain claims he was the only one who said the Rumsfield plan was “doomed to failure.” I’m pretty sure Paul had said that the entire thing was doomed to failure including Rumsfield’s plan.
• 9:28PM - Romney talks about not wanting ‘terror suspects’ to have the same legal rights to trial as others in this country. Gets schooled by McCain on waterboarding.
• 9:34PM - Will you make a permanent commitment to the people of Iraq? Paul says by giving the Iraqis their country back. Tancredo says Paul is unrealistic.
• 9:50PM - Romney attempts to spin a former statement by him about gays and lesbians in the military.
• 9:56PM - Tancredo schools Huckabee on spending on a mission to mars.
• 10:02PM - Romney squirms on Stars and Bars question.
• 10:06PM - How can we repair the infrastructure of America?
• 10:07PM - McCain claims a presidential line item veto is constitutional. Which isn’t not. Rudy puts him in his place.
• 10:08PM - Will Paul run as an independent? I thought he handled it well. Later, in the analysis, one of the CNN people says: “Paul was wrong, it was only 2000 people in PA, we were there.” I thought I’d seen a CNN article that claimed it was 5000 but I can’t seem to find it now. But NBC claimed it was 5000. Whatever. It was definitely larger than 2000.

The candidates were given the opportunity to create videos to show during the debate. Only Giuliani’s and Paul’s were any good.

I don’t feel it was as bad as invisipunk stated. It wasn’t great… but when are they? Paul was the last to receive a chance to speak. He was 6th in time spoken with 7:11 in front of Hunter with 4:53 and Tancredo with 3:41. Giuliani spoke for 15:45 which was longer than even the moderator or length of all the user videos. So Paul got 9.36% of the time out of all the candidates time spoken and Giuliani got 20.53% with Tancredo getting 4.8%. If equally distributed they all should have had 9:35. source: nytimes.com I think Paul held his own and spoke well. They threw some questions at him which IMO selected to make him look bad or not serious but he handled them well. They didn’t cover much domestic policy like healthcare and education but they’d needed 4 hours for that. And of course Paul is winning much of the online poll.