NH Republican debate.

The republican candidates debate two times this weekend before they participate in the primary on Tuesday. I have watched tonight's debate, and have some reaction to how it went.

My overall impressions are these: 1) It seems that the other candidates are not that committed to beating Mitt Romney. They were given ample opportunistic to draw him out and contest his record, but they did not. Santorum and Gingrich made a few weak swipes, but no real effort. I am not asking that they be nasty, I am just asking that they ask the questions of him that their supporters want asked. 2) Can Mitt just answer a question? I know, it's normal for a politician to dodge questions, but Mitt seems to have his dodge question setting on "high". 3) There have been no recent mentions of Tea Party events yet they still look to impress this group. This should concern moderate Republicans.

Now to the candidates themselves.
Santorum again advocates cutting all social programs.
Huntsman In favor of term limits in congress. I like this idea as well.
                He is the only candidate that has experiences outside of the United States.
Romney Says that Obama made one mistake after another when it came to foreign policy. I find this interesting                considering that Obama aided the people of Libya, used the information gathered to find Osama Bin Laden.
Says that Obama cut defense spending. This is not true, though he as advocated doing so he has signed a new bill that allocates over sixty billion dollars in new spending. He said that America needs to be able to fight two wars at once. His only solution to create jobs is cutting regulations that protect workers. He does not believe that Americans have a right to privacy implied in the constitution. This will be a problem among some Republicans and moderates and independent voters.
Perry We need to use natural resources that are found on federal lands.
Romney came off as at least somewhat sympathetic to gay couples. All candidates still stand by the ridiculous idea that marriage as one man one woman is three thousand years old. This is simply not true, perhaps these men aught to read the bible instead of just waving it around. This would have been a great time to bring up that marriage for Romney and Huntsman included polygamy until a few hundred years ago.
Paul This was my favorite moment of the night, so I will quote it as directly as I can. "A person who has not gone to war has no business sending men and women to war.: Ron Paul
This was said to Newt who did not go to war. This was a lovely moment.
Well that's pretty much it.