"But his face is the face of a man who has delivered 4,000 babies and still not seen it all."

Michael Scherer's account of the first GOP debate truly is a thing of beauty:

As the audience tries to calculate whether Romney’s grandkid-to-daughter-in-law ratio trumps Bachmann’s biological-to-foster-child ratio, Texas Representative Ron Paul drops an atom bomb: “I delivered babies for a living and delivered 4,000 babies.” How can anyone compete with this? Game. Set. Match. The debate might as well end right here.

H/t.

... Romney committed a Kinsley gaffe:

It’s time for us to bring our troops home as soon as we possibly can, consistent with the word that comes to our generals that we can hand the country over to the Taliban military in a way that they’re able to defend themselves.

Indeed.