On marriage/family:

And on religion (in answering a phenomenally dumb Chris Matthews question):

My debate verdict: Huckabee should be smiling, happy with himself. Rudy is dead if Fred gets in, wounded even if Thompson doesn’t. McCain and Romney are plausible as president.

I think the case could be made Governor Romney won, if there was a winner. People went into this debate not knowing him and even if you have a reaction like Jonah’s, I think you’re willing to give him another listen to and, like I said, he’s a plausible president.