REPUBLICAN/CNN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.

Politics may be considered a dirty game, but it is also a serious one.
If you have watched last night's Republican Party Presidential debate, you would have realized that none of the candidates came to the Las Vegas venue to play it cool.

Putting it another way, all the candidates running in the race came there, well prepared to answer, not any, but all questions, no matter what they were, from the economy through border protection; and so, they belted each other for a "one upmanship" position throughout the debate.

Pundits and analysts, who were there to referee the fracas would have lost count of the punches thrown, because there were too many; yet, the persons, who took the brunt of those fierce exchanges or gabs, were Gov. Mitt Romney and businessman Herman Cain; showing how tough a front runner position was.

The questions came fast and furious for the two, but they both handled themselves as quintessential politicians and came out maintaining their positions in the polls. Gov. Rick Perry tried to engage rival Mitt Romney on the side, on several occasions, on immigration, job creation, health care; and you name it. Romney was 1st (front runner), and Cain came in 2nd, respectively.

Romney was smart to throw out his own health care plan, which he has devised as governor of Massachusetts, and said that he made it to fit "a State". He then, in the same sentence, added that he would repeal the present law that President Barack Obama signed only a year or so ago.

Besides his 999 tax plan, Herman Cain was relatively calm on the statements he has made on the campaign trial, saying, for example, that his electrocution of immigrants crossing the United States border illegally, was only meant to be jovial, except to put "boots on the ground" with other effective measures to secure the border.

He vehemently defended his tax plan, but all the other candidates penetrated his defense and inflicted some holes in it. Rep. Michele Bachmann said that it would not work, for the reason that it sounded very simple; but it was not, as it would rather complicate the tax system, just as a value added tax would do. She had her own plan that would help in creating jobs, with a tax code that would be fairer than Cains 999 plan.

The other six almost unanimously criticized it, while Cain was saying they were comparing oranges with apples.

The power player person of the debate was Rep. Ron Paul, who would isolate the U.S. from unnecessary world matters, like wars in foreign lands and the interference in other countries' affairs. In other words, he would bring home all military forces to protect mainland America instead.

Candidates Rick Santorum strongly defended the sanctity of the family, which has become his trade mark in the campaign; and said that as president he would do his utmost to protect it.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich was eloquent in his statements as usual, but he was not ready to trade punches with his colleagues, except to make essential remarks on what they had said; and also "putting Barack Obama out of office," must be the preference of voters, of course.

Americans would continue to watch to see which of the candidates would be nominated as the Republican Party's challenger to President Barack Obama in the 2012 general election; as there was no clear cut winner, in the right sense of the word, at the Las Vegas CNN presidential debate last night; because they were all qualified. Yet, only one of them could be the nominee.