Thursday, November 29, 2007

On the umpteenth Republican debate

This seems like a representative media view of how last night's GOP YouTube debate went.
Many in the media like Mike Huckabee (but what will happen when the conservative base finds out more about him?).
They like the McCain-as-underdog-who's-"found his voice" theme.
They don't like Giuliani and Romney so much, and indeed last night's sniping between them didn't seem to illuminate much.
Ron Paul has zealous support and sounds the traditional, pure libertarian clarion call well.
But on foreign policy and Iraq specifically, sorry, Mr. Paul, but Senator McCain is right--you're a pseudo-isolationist. That'll never play.
In any case, there's probably been too many debates.
The race is as wide-open as I can ever remember.