Once around Myrtle Beach, James, and don’t spare the horses.

• If you picked “capitalism” or “felons” for your drinking game, you were knee-walking by 9:22.

• The audience also seemed to be drinking.

• Mitt Romney (R-I Wouldn’t Do Well in Jail) and Rick Santorum (R-I Am the Jail) had an excellent dustup over whether felons should be able to vote. Edge: Santorum.

• Did Bret Baier really promo “more fireworks” going into the first commercial break?

• Jon Huntsman (R-I’m Not Here) quote o’ the night: “Mitt Romney is a perfectly lubricated weather vane on the important issues of the day.”

• 9:32 – Rick Perry (R-Remember Me?) is having his strongest debate performance yet. Then gets disappeared for the next 30 minutes.

• Newt Gingrich: Unlike Barack Obama, we actually think work is good. Also unlike Obama, Gingrich thinks simplistically.

• Romney whacks Obama for promoting companies that contribute to his campaign. That’s rich, considering this.

• Bosom buddies: Ron Paul and Dwight Eisenhower, Newt Gingrich and Milton Friedman.

• Boo birds targets: Juan Williams, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney.

• Rick Perry: Forget electrified border fences. Let’s go for predator drones against illegal immigrants,

Yikes, y’all.