I’m just now catching up on news from last night’s GOP debate. Here’s a highlight: The baggers in the audience cheered at the suggestion that a 30-something man with no health insurance who needs medical care should just die already.

I will add that young and healthy people who could get health insurance but choose not to are a big reason health insurance is so expensive for the rest of us. However, if all clueless youth were to die off, we might soon be facing extinction. And there are millions of people who cannot get health insurance in this country through no fault of their own.

Dana Milbank writes that Rick Perry was revealed to be an empty suit. Spokespersons of the GOP establishment such as Jennifer Rubin and Byron York were critical of Perry’s performance. He doesn’t seems to have a grasp of the issues, they fume. Like that matters to the base.