Jeb is terrible. Only thing he speaks smoothly with passion is education policy, anything people actually care about he stammers trying to shove the right buzzphrases together.

Rubio talks too goddamn fast but it could be worse.

Trump has his comebacks queued up, I think his responses to a surprisngly hostile moderation team were iffy when he tried to answer honestly and iffy when he tried to do the professional-candidate pivot to the canned speech, but we’ll see.

Huckabee’s smooth, I’ll give him that. There are futures where he matters, there are candidates he’d veep for well.

Walker won this debate as far as I’m concerned.

Paul and Cruz, I’m sorry, I didn’t know that’s what your voices sounded like.

Christie doesn’t know what else to do at this point

Carson looked like he won his place in this debate figuring the trick to a redemption machine at Chuck E. Cheese.

Kasich is a paper doll