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7:10 PM PT: OMG Newt Gingrich is making a complete ass of himself. Baier asks him about his Libya flip-flop. He kicks and screams about how Baier just asked a gotcha question, Baier protests. And then it turns out Gingrich's defense was that he had already flip-flopped before his flip-flop. So he didn't go from for attacking Libya to against it, he says he went form against it to for it to against it. And now he says he knows how to finish it. Whatever, Newt.
7:10 PM PT: Jon Huntsman complains about how the United States is not having an effective dialog with China about things like hacking and spying. Well, geez, if only he were in a position to have had an impact on that...
7:12 PM PT: Tim Pawlenty wants us to go after Syria or something. Because what's another war, right?
7:16 PM PT: Here's how whacked out the GOP is: Ron Paul, who is now explaining why we're overly-freaked out about Iran, is probably the most coherent guy on the stage. And now Rick Santorum is getting up to explain why we should be more afraid of Iran than we were of the USSR, or something like that. Santorum says we've been at war there since 1979. Paul points out that Santorum is full of shit: that we installed the Shah in the 1950s and that led to the 1979 blowback revolution.