Quote Originally Posted by Pindar
I think Giuliani had the best night. If the consensus was Romney won the first debate, Giuliani won this second round. Romney was fine. McCain was better than in round one. Over all, the top three put distance between themselves from the lower rungs. One reason for this was the lower rungs were either incompetent or failed to capture their brief moment before slipping back into obscurity. Ron Paul is insane. Tancredo and Gilmore were cartoonish. The others..."what were their names?" will be a common reaction.

You can note the National Review link in the post above on pundits impressions.
Thanks pindar much appreciated. Intresting commentary from Charen on McCain "McCain was fine on spending of course. But he did not do himself any favors in the discussion of campaign finance, nor in his invocation of bipartisanship on immigration" Frankly working with Dems is going to be a reality for the next president, I dont necessarily view it as a weaknees, but understand its in the context of a republican primary.

It also sounds like (well others think it sounds like) Giuliani is formulating his position on abortion more clearly, I thought (and still do) that that issue, along with his personal life might be his achillies heel.

Im still holding out for Mitt, as my govenor he did a decent job with a crap hand of cards, massachusetts has to be the hardest place in the US to move forward a conservative adgenda. I was a McCain guy before this all began but I just get the feeling he's going down with the Bush ship, and his endorsement of the "surge" is going to bite him in the rear down the road.