Home Run Romney!!!

On taxes, on immigration, on executive experience Mitt Romney hit a home run!

The test of course will be what the voters say on Tuesday, but Mitt made his case well.

In a key moment early on Huckabee evaded answering the question from Romney of whether he had raised taxes $500 MILLION in Arkansas. The Huckster wouldn't admit to it. The Huckster, the Evader, the Waffler.

And McCain didn't have a good explanation on why he didn't support the Bush tax cut (and still would have made the same decision all over again, tho he is in favor of extending it now) True, he is a porkbuster, but if you deny the Dems tax revenues that is one more way to squeeze Big Brother government and let the American people take care of their own priorities and families by leaving more money in their wallets. Duh. The tax cut grew the economy and allowed us to recover from Sept. 11th. We need the recognition of that component too, beyond the need to build up our military and our intel. Jobs and economic growth make America strong.

Mitt gets it. And he won tonight.

UPDATE: Video of Luntz focus group. Romney wins overwhelmingly:
UPDATE: Halperin, Romney A-, and this from NBC:

Given the circumstance, I actually think Romney had a better night than yesterday. He looked more in command than he did last night; this isn't a guy who's going to be giving up easily. Fox News made his life miserable: the campaign can't be happy with the weird things the format did to him, from flashing up quotes to back up McCain attacks on Romney on immigration to the questioning by Chris Wallace which assumed Romney has spent more time running negative ads than running on his record. In all fairness to Romney, he's run quite a few ads, most were positive.

Fred did good on this one. Jim Geraghty, NRO:

I have to go back and check the transcript, but it appears that he just took Huckabee to school on the legal rules regarding captured al-Qaeda at Guanatanamo Bay.

Yes, it was excellent!

UPDATE: Powerline, Scott, "The Huck Stops Here", and scoring the debate. Paul here--Romney wins! Michelle Malkin with a blow by blow. Lowry, Romney adjusted.

UPDATE: Conservative Blogger says it's Mitt.

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