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MANCHESTER, N.H.--Your blogstress had a hard time staying focused when watching the Republican presidential candidates talk to Chris Wallace . Last night was a family feud, which offered some compelling moments. Tonight was more like a late family dinner where everybody's a little tired and cranky. Your ecrivaine did note, however, that Mike Huckabee stole Rudy Giuliani 's line from last night about Ronald Reagan 's amnesty bill. Huckabee told viewers of the Fox News debate that Ronald Reagan's amnesty for illegal immigrants was the reason we "have the mess we have today." Fred Thompson seemed terribly condescending, and a bit clueless. John McCain had little fire. Mitt Romney seemed just as vapid as ever, but that didn't stop a Frank Luntz focus group from going whole-hog for him. The same group did not think that Hillary Clinton would be the Democrat's presidential nominee; they overwhelmingly chose Barack Obama as the nominee that th...

Too bad alway seems so damn eccentric when he does. About Rudy Giuliani , Joe Biden , the senator from Delaware, said, "He says three things in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11." Called Rudy the "most unqualified under-qualified candidate to run for president since George W. Bush . Earlier in the evening, when moderator Tim Russert challenged the candidates to pledge to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Biden rightly contended that saber-rattling at Iran made no sense when Pakistan was about ready to blow. Chris Dodd all but said, "Right on."

She's tougher than Rudy , more experienced than Obama , done more for poor folks than Edwards , and smarter than everybody. That's the subtext of her responses on Social Security and her vote for the Iran resolution. Biden and Dodd are making sense in taking her on about her Iran vote, but her tone and body language trump their pleas. (My TAPPED colleague, Dana Goldstein , is right about Obama ; the offensive stance does not become him.) And though it may be sexist of me to notice, Hillary 's somber suit -- a black pantsuit with brown accessories (including a pocket square) -- look to your blogstress like fightin' duds.

photo of Rudolph Giuliani from Right Wing Facebook For all you social network Web-heads out there, you won't want to miss this: Rudy Giuliani's Facebook page (well, kinda). Our friends at People For the American Way have put together a spectacular feature, the Right Wing Facebook , where you will find pages for each of the right-wing presidential candidates. Your blogstress's personal favorite is the Rudy page . From his "About Me" description: I want the leaders of the Religious Right to know: I'm pro-family. My family isn't pro- me , but I think that's because I've been spending most of my time over these last few years being America's Mayor...

...that kinda stinks. Over at The Nation , Ari Berman is spilling those pungent beans. Check out his enterprise story on how Rudy got rich while helping to pollute the planet. Your blogstress's favorite riff: He needed money and, more important, political connections. Bracewell [a law firm that lobbies on behalf of energy bigs] offered a gateway into the lavish world of Texas Republican fundraising and easy access to the same titans of industry who had helped make the Bush family rich and propelled W. into the White House. The former mayor of one of the bluest cities in the country had just inked a whole lot of red. CLICK HERE TO READ BERMAN ON RUDY'S DIRTY MONEY

Over at The American Prospect Online, your blogstress dares to prognosticate on the strategy currently in play by such religious right leaders as James Dobson of Focus on the family and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council against Republican presidential front-runner Rudolph Giuliani , the former mayor of New York. Your cybertrix will fill you in with some backstory when next she graces her devotees with an apparation. CLICK HERE TO READ "GIULIANI, GAYS AND VALUES VOTERS"