Far too many “nuanced” and guarded opinions here for the Belmont Club. We’re talking not about the completely discredited MSM but about Independents, which were headed McCain’s way. McCain won this debate – strong, mastery of the facts, confident, enjoying himself. While a few people were surprised to see Obamamessiah with a five o’clock shadow, grumpy, miffed, “Me tooing” eight times – as someone said it here – like a school marm, not a Commander in Chief. The Independents and Reagan Democrats are not impressed. Which is why, figure it out, the Clintons do not say as many nice things about Ali Barky as they do John McCain; if they thought Barky was going to win, they wouldn’t be distancing themselves from him. But they are. They can hope for 2012 for Hillary all they want but if Barky were going to win, they wouldn’t be trying to cheeze him off. I’d say cagey Bill knows alot that most Americans don’t – that Ali Barky will never close the deal in Steubenville Ohio, Warren County Pennsylvania, or Grand Rapids, Michigan….