glancing at the debate: newt is consistently the most articulate and creative. he's kind of sinking in, because it's got to be occurring to republicans that this is not exactly a distinguished group of statemen or intellects. rick perry is just a buffoon, a grotesque parody of the politician: 'sentence' by 'sentence,' moment by moment, the stuff is irrelevant, incoherent, consisting of stray phrases under which there is no clue, or perhaps no mind.