Vice Presidential Debate: Winners And Losers

Several pre-planned articles were accidentally published to — then quickly deleted from — the blog on GOP.com. (That's right, folks, the story pictured here went up before the debate even started. It was a yuuuge disaster, to be honest.)

Because if he ever decides to give the acting thing a try again, the role of Pence in an HBO movie on the 2016 election is his to lose.

Because you had to have been driven nuts when the cameramen/director made no effort to line up the lines of the Constitution behind the candidates.

We lost track of the number of times someone uttered Trump's infamous "You're fired." But we do know that every time it was said, we thought about NBC's Celebrity Apprentice, returning in 2017 (and now hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger).

The first black senator elected in the South since Reconstruction, Scott — who in July recounted his own troubling encounters with the police — quite possibly was shaking his head, "Uh, no" when racism-denying Pence said they were "good friends."

Because.

The late POTUS is probably glad to have missed Pence evoking his famous "There you go again" debate zinger, only to have it land with a thud.

Yes, Pence received more Twitter mentions than his opponent, but they were mostly quoting some of his foot-in-mouth moments (including "You whipped out that Mexican thing again").

She put up a decent fight, but Tuesday's moderator was consistently bulldozed by both candidates when they went off-topic or interrupted one another. (Catchphrase of the night: "We need to move on.")

Hearing Pence flip Trump's script by calling him a "small and bullying dictator" is akin to hearing your girlfriend's BFF say she always thought you were funny-looking.

With Donald Trump a safe distance from the microphone this week, O'Donnell avoided having her name dragged back into the circus that is this election.

Honestly, are any of us better people for having watched that?