Bicker In Boca Liveblog: Part 3 -- When Mitt's Hair Attacks

MITT's hair better start attacking, because he's been put on the spot by the last two candidate questions -- from HUCK and RUDY.  Regardless of what Tweety and Russert say as they slurp MCCAIN, these guys clearly see MITT as at least a co-front-runner.

RUDY is against emissions caps.  He prefers to wait "until technology can take over."  Like in The Matrix, I guess.  He does go on to embrace something that sounds vaguely like an Apollo Energy Project, but he lost me when he called for the Rise of The Machines.

MCCAIN says climate change is real, but won't sign an international treaty till China and India blink first.  What happened to the "superpower's burden?"

Commercials.  These guys are boring tonight.  

C'mon.  I want a walker/cane fight!  As Hans Moleman -- a future Boca resident if there ever was one -- said, "we paid for blooood!"

Q to RUDY:  You're polling worse than a gay hooker at a televised Republican Senate caucus.  What's up?

RUDY is incredibly halting, like he didn't expect it.  Lays out an incredibly implausible scenario in which he wins, about as likely as any that DOCTORRONPAUL could spin.

Q to MCCAIN:  Your party doesn't like you.  Thoughts?

MCCAIN:  Ah, I'm likable conservative enough.  (This would be a helluva time to invoke St. Ronnie.  The fact that he's not taking the opportunity says a lot about why MCCAIN has such a hard time with Republicans.)

MITT weirdly says he relishes running against BILL CLINTON, because CLINTON is so . . . unpopular?  Uh-huh.  Then says that HILLARY is everything that's wrong with Washington, and the antithesis of America.   Then he invokes Reagan -- and that's why he might just win this thing.  He can play the chumps in his party like a violin, and he's soulless enough to do whatever it takes to win.  MCCAIN just won't play the game.

MITT refuses to say how much of his own money he's spending.  (God, I hate this guy.  I really, really loathe him.   Maybe worse than Bush.)

Pile on MITT!  Now he's anwering a Mormon question.  He's confident Americans won't apply a religious test.  That'd make them better people than MITT, who has said that he wouldn't appoint a Muslim to his Cabinet.

Asked about Social Security, DOCTORRONPAUL grudgingly admits that it would be a bad idea to cut off 80-year olds right away.  In time.

MissLaura will take you out, guys.