The debate needed more Stannis Baratheon:
Pledge to other candidates: "The White House is mine, by right. All those who oppose me are my foe."
Electability: "I will not be a page in someone else's history book."
Iran: "They will bend the knee or be destroyed."
3:00 a.m. telephone call: "I held Storm's End for a year while Mace Tyrell banqueted. I smashed Victarion's fleet when Balon Greyjoy rebelled against my brother. I crushed Mance Rayder at the Wall, though he had twenty times my number. Tell me, bastard, what battles have the other Republican candidates won that I should fear them?"
Other candidates' improper use of the word "less" (including Rand, unfortunately): "Fewer."
Abortion: "What is the life of one bastard boy to an entire kingdom?"
Whether God talked to him: "No."