Review Of GOP Debate Uses Reference To Madame Defarge

Ouch!

During the debate, they seemed so dispirited — even when regurgitating their pre-tested attack lines — that I expected to see Madame Defarge sitting in the front row of the audience knitting their names into a sweater.

One word sums it up: desultory. Which Google tells us means “lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.”

I would have been happy with just one of the three. 

This was the first debate in which Santorum sat atop the national polls. And he was nervous. Very nervous. So nervous that he looked like a graduate of the Bob Dole School of Debating, in which you are allowed to speak only in the impenetrable language of Capitol Hill.