Bloomberg-Washington Post Republican Debate Firsts!

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Can Perry strike back?
Can Romney hold his lead?
Can Cain overcome?
Does Santorum really think he’ll be taken seriously?
Does Bachmann know about her Backmann-eyes app?

Let’s find out in the Washington Post-Bloomberg GOP Primary Debate!

Dartmouth-Washington Post-Bloomberg GOP debate firsts

• First to appear to fall asleep at the table: Paul
• First to suggest Barney Frank and Chris Dodd should go to jail: Gingrich
• First to say he’s been phoning the Federal Reserve for 50 years: Paul
• First attractive moderator, like, ever: Julianna Goldman

• First to dress like an angel: Bachmann

• First to say he doesn’t want to brag: Santorum
• First to defend Governor Palin (for reasons beyond comprehension): Gingrich
• First to say that President Obama mumbles: Gingrich

• First to suggest that backgrounds checks are invasive to those considering government service: Huntsman
• First to suggest that Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan sounds like the price of a pizza: Huntsman

• First to say the 9-9-9 plan is not the price of a pizza: Cain
• First to say the 9-9-9 plan does not come off a box of pizza: Cain
• First to say he’s not omniscience: Romney
• First moderator to look like Gollum: Charlie Rose

-break-

• First to talk about Ronald Reagan’s diary: Perry
• First to say it’s a terrible idea to cut the bloated defense budget: Romney
• First to call Washington D.C. a wilderness: Bachmann
• First to claim that young Americans will be paying a 75% tax rate: Bachman

• First to say “the problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect”: Cain
• First to say he doesn’t buy beer: Cain

• First to bring up the Spanish-American war: Bachmann
• First to bring up the devil: Bachmann
• First to say he doesn’t subscribe to the Donald Trump or Mitt Romney school of economic trade: Huntsman
• First to talk about fiddles: Romney
• First to wipe his nose: Paul
• First to say we don’t need any plan to pass congress to get American working again: Perry
• First to say he wants to go to war with China: Santorum
• First to ask the audience to raise their hands: Santorum
• First to say “I’m not done yet”: Santorum
• First to complain that he has only answered one question: Santorum

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• First to say he grew up a Democrat: Perry
• First to say “heck”: Romney
• First to forget to change his tie from the last debate: Cain
• First to suggest that Mitt Romney knows his own economic advisor well: Perry
• First to be called on and say it wasn’t his turn: Santorum
• First (and only) candidate to ask Michelle Bachmann a question: Romney
• First to promote her website: Bachmann

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• First to lick his lips after answering a question: Perry
• First to shake his head at Herman Cain: Paul (as Cain was praising Alan Greenspan)
• First to say she was distracted and didn’t hear the question: Bachmann
• First to call his family “army-brat”: Gingrich
• First to be glad none of these candidates are president: myself