[TNMOUTH]

Wow, quick to dismiss Cruz. Why is that? Because you believe the polls that have him at 4%?

I guess Ted should just drop out then?

[LS]

I do believe them. Cruz is more willing than some to really get into the celebrity culture, but he isn't there yet.

I think he is still a ways away and that this isn't his time. For one thing, he still has a habit of going into the policy weeds when we have drifted even further into big-picture, visionary kinds of minimalist politics. Think "hope and change." In 1980, Reagan really ran on only two issues, national defense and the economy and he summed up each in about one line. Cruz isn't quite there yet. Brilliant guy, very solid conservative. We'll see.