[Senator Clinton] She’s the only one who can really play the game. ...Senator Edwards, enough already - we get it. You’re an ambulance-chasing, sub-prime lending, 28,000 square-foot house owning Mother Theresa.
[Senator] Obama’s always ready to trot out new ineffective shtick.
[Senator McCain] He spent the past seven years assiduously cultivating friends in the media and enemies in the Republican Party. John McCain has given himself a bullet-proof glass ceiling that he can’t crack.
[Mayor Giuliani] ... the more Republican voters get to know him, the less they like him because of his positions on social issues.
[Governor Romney] ... a tough September. There were a couple of gaffes and an indifferent debate performance.
[Senator Thompson] Fred’s making his debate debut tonight, and everyone will get to decide for themselves.
P.S.
...no one cares how candidates fund their campaigns. That’s the legacy of the post Watergate goo-goo types. They made campaign finance so inscrutable that the typical well-informed citizen has decided not to give a hoot.
Update: Belated Debate Thoughts
[Congressman Ron Paul] had been dining on the same stew of crazy as his followers regularly gorge on.
[Senator Thompson] Yes, it does look like he should switch from decaf to double espressos, but he has an extremely likable low-key manner.
[Governor Romney] The thing about calling the lawyers wasn’t his best moment. (Yeah, what about the money and guns? --ed.)
[Mayor Giuliani] Rudy’s got an obvious edge when it comes time to go on the attack...
[Senator McCain] had to show vigor (or as we say in Boston, "vigah"), but instead showed crankiness.
[Congressman Tancredo] After all, someone has to talk about immigration every time he gets the chance to speak.
Update 2: John Dickerson at Slate on Rudy's Debating Secret.
Rudy wants you to know that he has read the brief, knows the facts, and could organize an orderly evacuation of the building if someone yelled "fire."
Update 3: At Blame Bush!
Kudos to Reuters, CNN, the AP, and other esteemed news outlets for upholding the high journalistic standard of ALWAYS photographing Hillary either in Susan B. Anthony profile, or boldly gazing into the horizon as if bravely greeting the dawn of a brand new day.
It's no easy task getting shots of her such as these, either. The angle requires kneeling down at her feet, and there's always about 5 or 6 photographers from the New York Times already down there.
As Casey Stengel once said, "Can't anybody here play this game?" (Hillary excepted.)
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