Grab a Drink and Join Us for the 3rd GOP Presidential Primary Debate

There's no need to me to rate the closing statements — they're scripted stump stuff and the least interesting part of any debate.

And while one of your other favorite PJ Media writers puts together the post-debate wrap, I'm going to go look for that giant-sized brandy snifter.

Thanks for tuning in and, while I don't want to spoil anything, Newsom and DeSantis are supposed to debate one another on November 30.

Stay tuned!

Fact Check: Oh, yeah, I'm totally buying it. 

Closing statements coming right up...

Here's another one claiming to show a small crowd in the heart of Florida MAGA country.

Can anyone confirm or refute this? Genuinely curious here. 

Jenn Van Laar to me just now: "Tim Scott is looking at Haley like, 'You crazy b****.'"

The things I miss with my face buried in the liveblog browser tab...

Big cheers for Haley on her abortion answer which was about not dividing or blaming people and "saving as many babies as we can."

Scott on the other hand just endorsed a federal 15-week limit... and hasn't generated much of anything from the crowd.

MY EYES, MY EYES.

Only now at the end are they talking about abortion, which really hurt Republicans even in red states like Ohio and Kentucky last night. 

Vivek wants to wall off Canada. Maybe that sounds extreme but then I remember what Trudeau has done to our once-fine neighbors. 

Here's the full quote from Vivek's amazing opening statement. Enjoy it and try to forget how much you wanted tot throw your shoe at him the rest of the time. 

"We're going to shoot them stone, cold dead."

DeSantis on border drug smugglers. 

This is probably about right, assuming it means anything.

Also, did I really just hear DeSantis say he'd build a wall and make Mexico pay for it?

We're not going to solve fentanyl, but we're also not going to accomplish anything at all without aggressive rehab and mental health treatment, including commitment. 

Dems will never allow that in the cities where that's needed most.

Next topic: Fentanyl and whatever it is Vivek is on. 

It's official: We have a new meme.

After this is over, I want a brandy in a snifter the size of John Madden's skull. I'm talking about a glass that God couldn't lift.

I'm literally figuratively dying here. 

I wanted it. I finally got it. Just not from candidates I could vote for in the primary. 

Every time Vivek says, "I'll tell you how," an angel pulls a feather from its wings and cries. 

That's a lot of bald, bawling angels.

Ed Morrissey adds: "No one on the stage is grasping that they have to convince voters to abandon Trump, not each other."

Either that, or everyone is resigned to Trump being the nominee and are positioning themselves either for his cabinet or for 2028.