Can he debate?

I know everyone tuned into the Republican debate last week and saw Fred Thompson debate with the other GOP candidates for the party nomination. Thompson had a unique style of debating that allowed him to hold his ground combined with low expectations, this debate helped Thompson get out of the gutter so to speak. Candidates as Romney may have taken a few jabs at Thompson but these were taken in stride and Thompson maintained his composer. The main focus that Thompson wanted to hammer home were his economic policies if he were president. "For example, to make Social Security sound he'd slow the growth of benefit increases for future retirees by indexing them to inflation. To help middle-class taxpayers, he'd postpone the automatic growth of the alternative minimum tax."

This is one obstacle down but the nomination is far from being decided.