John McCain and Mike Huckabee seems to be the rightward-leaning blogosphere's winners of tonight's Republican debate. McCain won particular praise, and may have resurrected his campaign - and he did unveil a string of good lines - the one posted below aimed at Romney, as well as this home run over Hillary Clinton (who the Republicans all assume would be the Democrat nominee).
Fred Thompson looked and sounded tired, although he gave a slightly better account of himself than in his first debate. But he's lost his chance to make an impact. Since he couldn't even get much support in the Values Voter Summit straw poll in DC over the weekend, coming fourth, he looks even weaker if McCain revives.
