CNN YouTube Republican Debate

I'm really sleepy right now, but I'm watching a little of this. The fact that the website that I help develop and maintain on a daily basis is providing this debate to the entire country right now is pretty overwhelming.

The debate is taking place in St. Petersburg, Florida. Anderson "Bringin' Sexy Back" Cooper is hosting. 5000 viewers videotaped questions for the Republican candidates ahead of time, and submitted them via CNN.com. Many of the videotaped questions get displayed via large screen in front of the candidates and, of course, the CNN.com/YouTube viewers. Here are a couple of tidbits:

Immigration question was posed. Romney accused Guiliani of being too tough. He actually asked Guiliani if he felt that if you use an employment service to hire individuals and one of them has a "funny accent", if you should go up to them and ask to see their papers. Guiliani said he thought it was interesting that Romney was being so "holier than thou" when Romney was actually hiring and harboring illegal aliens on the regular. Zing!

Rudy Guiliani was booed during his response to a question regarding gun-control.

Anderson Cooper really pressed Romney on "Don't Ask Don't Tell". In fact, Anderson was almost a little "pissy" with Romney, for lack of a better word. Mmmmm hmmmmm.

Keep up with everything here.

Also, Michelle Malkin live-blogged the debate.