Who won GOP debate? President Obama
 Yael T. Abouhalkah
Yael T. Abouhalkah
The Kansas City Star
Pity the Republican voters. The more they see of their party’s alleged presidential front-runners, the worse it looks for them come November.
Oh, and the better it looks for President Barack Obama’s re-election chances.
Take Wednesday night’s debate, in which both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum got the most attention.
They clashed several times, trying to destroy their opponent’s credibility as a true fiscal conservative.
Romney actually looked pretty aggressive, trying to battle back against his reputation for being a lame debater. Santorum struggled at times to combat Romney’s attacks, looking less like a fast-charging challenger than someone who can’t handle the spotlight.
The best part of the debate came when Romney, the eternal politician, painted Santorum as a Washington, D.C., insider.
The New York Times reported that Romney and Ron Paul “criticized his earmarks, his vote for a provision that financed Planned Parenthood and his support of the No Child Left Behind law, President George W. Bush’s signature education plan now out of favor with conservatives. By the end of the night, the scrutiny seemed to wear on Mr. Santorum, who was taunted with boos when he said he had voted for the education program even though ‘it was against the principles I believed in.’”
Afterward, TV talking heads analyzed the debate and often came up with a non-surprising conclusion: No one had said much of substance, and the person who had come in as the presumptive challenger to Romney’s inevitable victory in the GOP primaries (Santorum) came out worse for the wear.
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