National Review says Rudy won....
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Debate [John Derbyshire]
The format didn’t seem very satisfactory to me. Perhaps this 10-candidate filed just can’t be shoehorned into any kind of debate format.
Rudy looked great. Romney a tad too well oiledbut good on health care. McCain not my friend. The occasional 4 o’clock in the morning temptations I had to support Ron Paul have evaporated. Tom Tancredo better than previously. Huckabee, Brownback I’m still having trouble telling apart. Hunter said some good things, but I can’t remember what they were. Gilmore, Thompson, zzzzz.
Go Rudy.
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Excuse Me While I Check Out Fred on Fox, But... [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Rudy won. After a breakout first-debate win, Romney hasn’t been as good as his first showing, but he remains thoughtful and intriguing on a lot of issues. I think you look at him and Rudy and McCain and think “these are serious people. We might be O.K. if it’s one of them.”
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“TWO BIG PRINCIPLES” [Kate O’Beirne]
Rudy finishes strong.
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“Nominate Me” [Rich Lowry]
Self-confident, good-naturedthat sums up the Rudy of the last two debates.
Rooty didn’t look great to me. He looked like a loud-mouthed, pandering grandstander. Needless to say CNN only pays any attention to the Anointed Three.
I agree that Hunter said the right things while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing to distinguish himself from the crowd. He has no sense of style as a speaker, no sense of how to use rhetoric to his advantage. Completely and utterly forgettable.
It’s too bad, too — he seems like a good, staunch conservative.