Not every politician feels comfortable walking Twitter like a high wire, but some of those who are thinking hard about seeking the presidency next year tweeted out blunt reactions to President Obama’s second-to-last State of the Union address.

Some live-tweeted, others worked from advance text of Obama’s hour-long remarks.

Here’s a representative sample of what these White House hopefuls had to say, beginning with a link to an analysis video from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., appeared to have the most fun by getting a little feisty with tweets like these:

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., took a more serious tone.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., whom some liberals in her party hope will run for president, was pretty active on Twitter in support of the president.

Paul also cut his own response and tweeted out a link:

Standing out among Republican women was former business executive Carly Fiorina, who is considering making a run.

One of the leading Republican hopefuls, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, weighed in late with a salute to the official response to Obama from newly elected Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa:

Former New York Gov. George Pataki, who recently let his interest be known, rendered a verdict.

 

Democrat Jim Webb, the former U.S. senator from Virginia, was up to something. It wasn’t clear whether this worried presumptive party favorite Hillary Clinton, though.

Another Democrat with White House ambitions, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, was on board for a higher minimum wage among other policy points on his last full day in office.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican who just began his second term, underlined the role of the states.

  Republican Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, got a little pointed.

Early on, Paul was helpful on fact-checking and other basics:

Santorum at one point turned to and retweeted  the Republican National Committee’s fact-check operation:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, another Republican with an eye on the White House, lightheartedly played the spoiler two hours before Obama began to speak:

Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, also chimed in with a business perspective:

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist from Vermont who some would like to see seek the Democratic nomination, tweeted a series of observations like these:

Walker appeared to beg to differ:

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a dark horse in the GOP’s unannounced presidential field, sought to show that he was getting things done that mattered:

Perhaps not surprisingly, Rick Perry had cooler stuff in mind than a race for president or the president’s speech on his first evening as the former governor of Texas:

Vice President Joe Biden, contemplating going for the No. 1 job, had his own official take:

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