FIRST OF TWO WEEKEND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRE NEW HAMPSHIRE DEBATES NOT QUITE MILQUE-TOAST...........

The six remaining Republican Presidential nomination candidates, Romney, Santorum, Paul, Gingrich, Perry, Huntsman, met in the first of two broadcast debates this weekend, on ABC News / Yahoo, tonight in primetime; and they will meet again tomorrow morning on NBC News 'Meet The Press' / Facebook.  The expectation going into tonight's face-off  in New Hampshire, was that it would be a fierce affair, with the other five candidates really going after frontrunner Romney.  But it was instead, a mild exchange of ideas and policy positions, pollite rather than verbal fisticuffs.  It had its moments, but none of the other five really took their strongest challenges to the former Massachusetts Governor, who is presently leading by substantial margins in Tuesday's New Hampshire Primary, and the South Carolina Primary two weeks from today.  Time is short, if any of the contenders will be effectively lay a glove on him as the obvious true conservative alternative.  Perhaps Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, Perry, and are holding their pre New Hampshire Primary most effective fire for tomorrow morning's 'Meet the Press' Debate.  After all, Saturday night has the smallest weekly viewing audience, and 'Meet the Press', is the number one rated Sunday morning news show, providing big headline news coverage on Monday.  Tomorrow we will see, and in three nights we will know the outcome of this week's political presidential nomination campaign infighting, if it can be called that............Fr.  Troy