[TNMOUTH]

But he has never answered any of the others when pressed. That is the point.

How, at this point, when we expect other candidates to know where they stand, does he not?

[LS]

Actually, I think the ability to deflect is important. You have to give just enough that people know the direction you're going, without giving enough specifics that the Dems can hang you. I don't know if he can pull it off. Perot couldn't because once he got past "You gotta get under the hood," he had nothing.

We'll see. Walker has the opposite problem: he has what I'll call "small" issues (not denigrating what he did with the unions) that he has to ramp up to national vision. Tell me, for example, how the WI unions and the dangers they present are national problems writ small.

Take Cruz, for example: the speech I heard had said we had to repeal Obamacare, and "replace it" with legislation that people agree on, such as portability. But he also went into Health Savings Accounts. These may be a laudible goal, but it absolutlely misses the central facts that Americans don't save as is (and this asks them to save more) and that the gains from the HSAs are tax savings (when many Americans don't pay taxes). Now, try connecting that to average Americans when what you need to be saying ONLY is "repeal Obamacare." It's fine to defer what you're going to do later, because the MARKET will, in fact, fix much of it. But you can't say that. So I (and I bet Trump) would deflect.