Debate at Reagan Library turns into a two-man free-for-all!

Nice guys, both of them, but they weren't the only ones at this evening's debate

This evening's debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was a sad commentary on biased news coverage. Rudy Giuliani shouldn't have bothered to drop out of the running. He could have been seated between Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul and no one would have noticed his presence there. The focus was on who said what way back when ... strictly between John McCain and Mitt Romney ... and that was for almost the entire 90 minutes. I don't believe I even heard Iran mentioned once by anyone--and that's likely to dominate the affairs of the next President far more than any of the topics that John and Mitt were tossed by the CNN questioners. Anderson Cooper's main focus was in trying to get the two front-runners to squabble about nearly anything and everything.

For the record, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul were able to get a word in edgewise here and there--and that was the sum total of any real information radiating from the boob tube in my bedroom. It's a shame that by the time they came to the very last question (final response to it came from Mike), most viewers were probably searching for an old episode of Laverne and Shirley.

Huckabee asks for some equal time as he and Dr. Paul warmed seats -- and little else -- at this evening's debate