Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player?
1. Bill Clinton saying of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: “It's weird, you know, but if you love somebody, you would think they would be good. It's just harder (to withstand attacks).”
2. Sen. John McCain praising his currently lower-polling rival Republican, Rudy Giuliani, during a debate as “an American hero.”
3. Giuliani, who as NYC mayor fought unsuccessfully to keep a commuter tax, saying of Mitt Romney and McCain: “When Mitt and John were facing the choice of lower taxes, each chose higher taxes.”