McCain sounds defensive trying to explain the votes that annoy average Republicans. Rudy did a better job. Plus McCain just committed a "Bushism" trying to pronounce "transcendental."

Bad job for Huckabee saying that he doesn't apologize for going along when 80% of his constituents wanted tax increases. Hm -- no leadership points there . . .

Romney does okay pointing out that he's stood up for a lot of conservative stuff in "the toughest of [blue] states" but he sounds a bit flustered.