protein wisdom summary: Wait, Tommy Thompson is running? And what was Ron Paul doing there? Did Nick Gillespie cancel the Thursday night poker game or something?
Okay, actually, I didn’t bother to watch the thing. “CSI” was channeling the “X-Files,” and for those of us who follow our charts, we know better than to get anywhere near a blue suit on nights like that. But for you hardcore debate junkies, Pajamas Media has a roundup of reaction from people who actually put in the time.
And check out the comments, where all of Ron Paul’s supporters show up to berate anyone who doesn’t agree that the Constitution has been trampled, and that we are one good push away from either a theocracy or a socialist state.
I do love me some crazy morning passion!

RuPaul is running?
republic candy bait?
Let me know when the clown car has emptied a bit more, then I might watch one of these things…
Ron Paul?
Wasn’t he the guy that could make my vinyl cartop look like new?
I refuse to pay attention to all this crapola until next year. Until then, alla ya can fuck off!
Yeah, I’m lookin’ at YOU, Romney…
The Battlefield Earth thing shouldn’t matter, but it does. It’s like the vague sense of embarrassment you feel looking at an 18 year old wearing his Scouting uniform.
I’ve seen the same sort of comments on YouTube for this RuPaul guy as TofuPupKucinich. Truthers are everywhere.
I’d rather vote for Ron Popiel. A Pocket Fisherman in every home!
Wait a minute. What year is it again?
I’m with Mojo. Tell ‘em to come back when I care. Or when it’s actually an election year, whichever comes first.
And I liked Robert Godwin’s review best of all: “I don’t understand this early obsession with who ‘won’ the debate. Can’t they all be losers?”
Like I said, tell ‘em to come back when I care—then maybe zingers like that won’t sound so funny to me.
– Peggy Noonan on Romney
– Peggy Noonan on the war
Surrounded as we are by people who think the war is a BushCo/Halliburton plot to grab everyone’s oil, it’s great that there’s a Ron Paul out there to remind us that the war is a BushCo/Halliburton plot to grab everyone’s gold.
Plus “Me and Mrs. Jones” is still a pretty good song.
Hmm Paul, I think “Mr. Jones”, fits the PW personna better.
Gold, pure gold.
As for Ron Paul, somebody put me on his #$%& newsletter list, and the @#$&#xin;g thing has followed me for three address changes now. I wonder if I can get stalking charges against Ron Paul’s Freedom Report – and a justifiable homocide against the person who put me on the list to begin with…
I like Tancredo and Hunter.
And 9/11 Truthers can’t cipher.