At CNBC’s GOP presidential debate in Michigan Wednesday night, Rick Perry stumbled badly. “I have been watching presidential debates since the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, and it was the worst moment in a debate I have ever seen,” Michael Barone wrote of Perry’s brain freeze. Herman Cain, under fire for allegations of sexual harassment, derided House minority leader Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy.” Cain said later in an interview with CNBC: “That was a statement I probably should not have made.” Yes, probably.

As he has done in the other debates, Mitt Romney turned in a solid performance, but Newt Gingrich was the one who really seemed to impress.