Before I cover any ground here, I’d like us all to acknowledge that nobody has any real idea what the hell is going to happen to St. Pete’s CNN/YouTube GOP debate. After both Giuliani and Romney admitted they were going to flake out, it seems that every option is on the table — including tanking it completely.

According to the vast array of consistently infallible information available on the Interwebs, literally every possible scenario is playing out before our very eyes — simultaneously: Romney hasn’t really flaked out at all. Actually, he has. But Ron Paul will be there, so we should go forward as planned. It’s not that they’re afraid of the fact that reality has a notable liberal bias, the Republicans just need the date pushed back a few weeks. Oh, fuck it all, the GOP is actually just going to scrap the motherfucker altogether.

Meh.

Some good news that actually has me a little bit impressed, and I mean that mostly sans snark, is that some Republicans are hoppin’ mad about their party not being “down” and have put together savethedebate.com to try to, well, save the debate or at least publicly shame the candidates who don’t show up.

So there you have it. The Republican Debate, live from St. Petersburg: It’s on as planned, it’s postponed, it’s canceled. Politics as usual with some quantum physics thrown in.