Debate Top 5; Worst 10

Top 5
1. Hillary-- her chances are rising once again. If it gets any better, Al Gore's going to jump in, after all.
2. Joe Biden--Real good debate. Is anyone noticing?
3. Barack Obama--I like everything he says. Not quite aggressive enough for the group give-and-take session, though.
4. John Edwards--see first part of comments on Obama; as for the second, the reverse--he doesn't do "aggressive" that well.
5. Bill Richardson--getting a lot of respect from the other candidates. I think some of them want to help him stay afloat, to deny Hispanic votes to their rivals.

Middle ground--OK, but no chance:
Dennis Kucinich--Has the annoying habit of always being right. People can't stand that.
Chris Dodd--actually, I think he's too bland to stand, though he is very "articulate". For a white male.
Ron Paul--Like Kucinich with the Dems, Paul's philosophy is perfect Republican, which means those degraded ones can't stand him.
Mike Gravel--Forgot him; no need to include except completeness. Actually, though, it's good to have a gadfly on stage to keep the mainstream candidates a little more honest.

Bottom 10
(worst first)
1. Tom Tancredo--Even the Bushites reject him.
2. Jim Gilmore--Out of his league--I'll skip the easy Bush reference. Double A arm, at best.
3. Rudy Giuliani--Did he catch the lightning in the bottle? My take is: he's a Bushite at heart, and will take us to war in Iran.
4. Mike Huckabee--Defending Creationism. A-yuk, a-yuk.
5. Duncan Hunter--I liked the part where he said he doesn't need Democrats and Independents to govern! At least there's one bullet-headed Saxon mother's son in the race.
6. Mitt Romney--He's clouding over fairly successfully what being a Mormon actually involves believing. Phony baloney; I'm surprised when others don't see through him.
7. Sam Brownback--At least he's coherent.
8. Tommy Thompson--a New Deal Republican. Now that's modern-day Reagan for you! On second thought, that's 25 years ago Reagan.
9. Fred Thompson--Does well by not doing.
10. John McCain--Earned some credit with his speech on behalf of Hispanics, which will be rewarded if he can stay in there. A lot of passion behind his Iraq position; he's a slave to events he can't control.