Fox News Debate Wire (3)

** Maybe Mitt Romney did get the pro-life award...

** Huck makes a big pro-Israel statement....

** Huck worries about pushing Mush out because it'll create a vacuum

** On foreign policy, Thompson and Romney really know their stuff.... the comparison to Huckabee is pretty stark.

** Romney: foreign policy "is not longer like a game of checkers. It's like a game of three-dimensional chess."

** Thompson expresses conditional support for Musharrif; but "let's not ever kid ourselves; our national security interest requires that those nuclear weapons not fall into the hands of radicals..."

** Thompson: "You can tell the news is good coming out of Iraq because you read so little about it in the New York Times."

** McCain makes some awkward jokes about terrorists

** McCain riffs on the surge, points out the anniversary...

** Romney suggests Paul is reading Ahmadinejad's press releases. Does not believe action was taken by rogue elements...

** Paul compares this to the Gulf of Tonkin. "We have five more speed boats attacking a U.S. Navy destroyer and here we are ready to start World War III." The crowd is laughing...

** McCain: "I would have placed my confidence in the captain of the ship. For those of who are not in that information to second guess, it's a little presumptuous." Agrees with Rudy. Maybe the "Iranians think we're weaker because of the NIE."

** Rudy uses the incident to question the conclusions of the NIE.

** Thompson uses the word "frisky."

** Thompson: One more step "and they would have been introduced to those virgins they've been looking to see." Funny!

** Huckabee asked about Straight of Hormuz incident: answers that the President made the right decision. Huckabee says the words "gates of hell" and gets cheers. Pressed, said he supports the commanders. "That's what we train them for."

** If Reagan were alive, don't you think he'd amble up on stage, tilt his head, and say: "You're paying for this microphone, so why are you talking about me?"

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