Gossip Corner: Mccain Wins Debate

Tonight John McCain gave voters straight talk on important issues like immigration, Iraq, and out of control government spending.

Hot off his victory in New Hampshire, John McCain will face his Republican opponents tonight in the Fox News Debate in South Carolina.

For McCain, with a global war on terror raging, there was no equivocating: We must “defeat” evil.

It may not have been a debate, but it was one of the most lopsided political contests in memory.

It was only in May that Sen. Barack Obama cockily proclaimed he would debate Sen. John McCain “anywhere, anytime.”

WASHINGTON John McCain’s campaign expressed cautious optimism Thursday as congressional Republicans and Democrats agreed in principle on a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry hours before the two presidential candidates were to meet with President Bush on the crisis.

John McCain bounced back in the first Republican presidential debate and breathed new life into his faltering candidacy.

Presidential politics was running smack into the delicate negotiations over how to stop further weakening the sagging economy without putting an enormous new burden on taxpayers or rewarding corporations or their executives who share the blame for the woes.

McCain showed an understanding of what drives a free economy: “I don’t want to take any money from the rich.

Excerpt: I’VE BEEN BUSY WITH FAMILY STUFF, but N.Z. Bear has been liveblogging the Republican candidates’ debate.

Obama still wants the face-off to go on, and is slated to travel to the debate site in Mississippi on Friday.

To any honest observer, the differences between John McCain and Barack Obama have been evident all along.

McCain was easily the strongest on spending.

He was most likely planted by the Clinton campaign, but all of those candidates, and certainly Senator McCain can handle a little heat from him or anyone else.

He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Because He Could, Rewriting History , Off with Their Heads, and Behind the Oval Office, and the Washington Post bestseller Power Plays.

This, in turn, will impose inefficiencies and very real costs on the U.S. economy in a fragile period.

The good news is that they all understand that the Iraq war has been a disaster in terms of execution.

Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton’s political consultant for 20 years, guiding him to a successful reelection in 1996.

While his account of his flip-flops on abortion was not convincing, his homilies to family, God and country will sound good to Republican ears.

The stark differences between the two came through the most on the question of whether there is evil in the world.

He needs a program or at least talking points on something other than New York City and terrorism.

Tancredoyeah yeah immigration is a issue but there are logical answers to this issue that you don’t get, for your unfortune that’s all you got.

Welcome to the CNN/YouTube Debate open forum.

Huckabee was the most original and interesting of the candidates.

It’s clear that the other candidates give their opinion but on issue after issue John McCain speaks from experience.

Tune into the Fox News Channel at 9pm EST tonight to watch the last debate before the Michigan Primary on Tuesday.

Romney, who had the most face time of all of the candidates, showed himself to be the handsome, well-spoken candidate that he is.

Ed, and crew, at Heading Right.

He’s running for president … not for mayor.

MSNBC and Politico deliberately marginalized Giuliani and steered far too many of the important questions to anybody not named Rudy.