More Liveblogging of the Republican Debate. Selected Quotes from Swampland and Wonkette!

Don't you people take ANYTHING seriously?   Not too, you say?  Then check out the following:

Swampland, LIVEBLOGGING:  THE GOP REAGAN LIBRARY DEBATE, by Ana Marie Cox (YAY!).

A few selected AMC quotes:

1. 7:59PM: LIEBERMAN is there. At the right debate at least.
2. 8:07PM: Tommy Thompson and his GIANT EARS OF JUSTICE
3. 8:31PM Romney loves America. His father, not so much -- he was born in Mexico, after all... since the family fled the U.S. in order to practice polygamy. What was the question about amending the Constitution again?
4. 8:32PM Roe v Wade repealed? "It would be ok," says Rudy. Yeah, ok. Okay. You know, ok.
5. 8:34PM "I've always been personally pro-life," says Romney. I have no further joke.
6. 8:58PM Romney just completely dodged the stem cell question. Also, love Matthews making it ABOUT NANCY. Brownback: "We can't 'create people to cure people.'" CREATE PEOPLE? McCain says what most sane people think: let's try to cure people.
7. 9:13PM Ron Paul: "I trust the internet a lot more." Can I get that on a bumper sticker? Or as a pin for my tin foil hat?
8. 9:15PM Rudy: "I try to look at the half full glass, rather than the half empty glass." You realize, Rudy, that there is only one glass, right? Okay.

[quote ends; link to Fox News Romney-bio with heavy emphasis on polygamy and importance of polygamy to Romney's family added by me.  I couldn't care less about that, but he'd better start adjusting since, you know, I found the link on FOX, who make sure you  know what a big part polygamy played in the lives of the Romney clan (while Romney's wife had that really snappy rejoinder)]

FOR WONKETTE LINKS AND SELECTED QUOTES, CLICK ON LINK BELOW!

Wonkette's live blog is a two-parter:   

• Great Reagan's Ghost!  Live-Blogging the GOP Debate
• Live-Blogging the Old Crazies: Reagan's Flipping in his Grave. 

Selected Wonkette quotes:

1. Romney is dressed as John Travolta dressed as a space monster from Scientology! Ha ha, that is not totally true.
2. Ohhh, “From MSNBC and Politico.com” … really? Maybe Wonkette will host the next one, with Animal Planet.
3. McCain’s “trip wire” is basically whatever voice in his head says “IT’S MY DESTINY … IT’S MY DESTINY.”
4. Gilmore and Thompson should just merge and become Thompsmore, because otherwise we will never figure out which is which without the name flashing underneath.
5. They’re all crazy, with the exception of Ron Paul, who is surely crazy in a secret way.
6. Oh please change the Constitution. It’s not like anybody in the White House follows it.
7. REAGAN REAGAN REAGAN.
8. You know, Arnold really is a pretty good governor. These people really should be scared.
9. Hitchens once called Reagan a “cruel and stupid lizard.” This is why we continue to like Hitchens, even when he’s gone as loopy as John McCain with these terror bogeymen.
10. Mitt’s health-care system in Massachusetts is “fabulous.” But props to Romney for this; it’s actually the system California is going to use, that Arnold’s pushing. (No, it’s not perfect, but for the United States it’s pretty great.)
11. Ron Paul Hearts Wonkette! Or at least the Internets, in general. Dude actually believes in the First Amendment, because he is some kind of weird person who has read the Constitution.
12. Oh god, these guys stand for even less than the Democrats.

The end of the Wonkette liveblog (part 2) is the best part.  Check it!  It tracks my experience of all debates, including the Dems.  I hate debates which is why I am so grateful to all these nice bloggers who live-blogged them SO I WOULDN'T HAVE TO.