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  1. Afraid not, Jimmy. Fred was folksy and genial and utterly forgettable, although he did manage to slip in an ad that blasted Romney and Huckabee, who against all odds emerged as the stars of the night.
    Romney was on his game, going hammer and tong with Rudy over immigration, but had some late inning slip-ups; McCain scolded him about waterboarding, and a Hillary-planted gay general got him to waffle on gays in the military. Personally, I thought his biggest gaffe was saying he believed everything in The Bible, but that probably won’t hurt him all that much in the primary.
    Huckabee had the best line of the night; when asked if Jesus would support the death penalty, he replied “Jesus was too smart to run for public office.” Creationist that he is, he still opined that some of The Bible is allegorical.
    Rudy managed to deflect a direct attack from Anderson Cooper (the only question from the moderator) over a late-breaking story concerning improper billing for police protection while mayor of New York. “I had nothing to do with the billing, and it was all proper as far as I know.” That was enough to shut Cooper up – whether the story has legs remains to be seen. The gun people got on him too, for having the temerity to suggest that reasonable regulations (gasp) could be put on the Second Amendment. All in all though, not Rudy’s best night.
    Nonetheless, a win for Huckabee in Iowa is good news for Rudy; it wounds Romney in New Hampshire, and sets up the possibilty of three different winners by the time Florida comes up – which Rudy should win easily before he wraps it up on Feb. 5th, Super Duper Tuesday.

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