The only thing to know about tonight

No one touched John McCain. No one. Fred Thompson whacked Mike Huckabee a couple of times. Mitt Romney was nowhere to be seen. McCain wins as the untouched front-runner. Fred for showing life. And Huck for handling some tough questions with grace.

When you know that they know

(crossposted from Redstate Redhot) Two facts captured for me how Mitt Romney’s campaign perceived his debate performance. First, only two surrogates were in the spin room: Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchanan. None of the national surrogates in town. No Senator Judd Gregg, Romney New Hampshire campaign chairman. Where was Judd? Read more…

McCain wins

The test of a debate is what is fixated in people’s heads. Those moments will be, almost certainly, the attacks on Mitt Romney. John McCain just needed to tread water. Not only did he do that, but he looked dignified except for, perhaps, going a little too far on poking Read more…