Could have been comedy. It wasn’t.

All right. So it was a real debate. The moderators were not trying to score points. The questions were specific and policy oriented. No cheap shots. For maybe the first time in my life I saw candidates answering questions about what they think, what they would do, and why they should be president.

They all did well. They all got the chance to make the case for their candidacy. They got to mix it up with each other. But 90 percent of the discussion was about real stuff. You could see that all of them had some vision about what the presidency is and how they would approach it.

Only downside. Nothing about girlfriends, illegitimate children, unreimbursed trips on corporate jets, high school hijinks, or misremembered college pranks. And no Megyn Kelly and her shark eyes boring in from her upper East Side life to make every candidate feel small.

Right now, she’s commenting on a debate that makes hers look like Jaws 4.

Why can’t we have this every time? Oh. Yeah. The MSM are 100 percent devoted to killing Republicans.