Just a sidenote from the CNN debate this evening and the subsequent commentary: Mike Murphy should get more airtime and Amy Holmes far less. Murphy knows the biz as well as anyone and has been a player at the presidential and major statewide level for years. He’s inciteful, honest, objective and funny — the GOP equivalent of Paul Begala, easily the best analyst on the Dem side.
A Mike Murphy-Paul Begala duo is the best analytical team on television, and CNN should pair these two as often as possible.
Amy Holmes? She’s actually quite articulate, but being former Tennessee Senator Bill Frist’s “speechwriter” for a short period of time is no real qualification to talk politics with real pros like Murphy and Begala. She seems like a nice person, but give her the hook.