CNN political contributors and analysts also on hand in Las Vegas will include Gloria Borger, Ron Brownstein, Alex Castellanos, Ari Fleischer, David Gergen and Mary Matalin.
What's to talk about? Rick Perry's plan to militarize the war on drugs?
A hawk when it comes to Mexican cartels, Perry said in New Hampshire this month that as president he would consider sending U.S. troops into Mexico to combat drug violence there and stop it from spilling into the United States.
...Since 2008, with the support of the Republican-dominated Texas legislature and more than $400 million in taxpayer funds, Perry has pressed forward on his own version of a surge — called Operation Border Star — paying millions for equipment, weapons and the overtime salaries for sheriff’s deputies and local police to mount operations aimed at drug seizures and gang members.
Or flavor of the week Herman Cain and his disingenuous tax plan or electric fence "joke" or opposition to abortion even in cases of rape or incest?
What clowns. I'm more interested in who gets eliminated on DWTS and who gets chosen on the X-Factor (although tonight instead I'll be watching CNBC's "Billions Behind Bars" on the private prison industry and Frontline's "Lost in Detention" on the plight of immigrants locked up in US detention facilities.)
If you are watching, let us know what you think.
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Update: I tuned in to the end of the pre-debate show and the CNN talking heads were totally drowned out by the protesters.)