Cruz first accused Trump of bad judgment and temperament.
Trump then merely mirrored the accusation back, accusing Cruz of a poor temperament and judgment for the presidency.
Exactly! Now the two of them are over it and have STFU about it but Levin and Rush are getting the vapors over it.
I like and respect both Donald and Ben. I do not believe either one is going to be our nominee. I don’t believe either one is going to be our president. I think both of them, their campaigns have a natural arc. And with both of them I think gravity is pulling them down... Carson is further in that descent. You look at Paris, you look at San Bernardino, it’s given a seriousness to this race, that people are looking for: Who is prepared to be a commander in chief? Who understands the threats we face? Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button? Now that’s a question of strength, but it’s also a question of judgment. And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them. So my approach, much to the frustration of the media has been to bear hug both of them, and smother them with love. People run as who they are. I believe gravity will bring both of those campaigns down, I think the lion’s share of their supporters come to us.
Trump did however, very calmly and quietly said enough that people are now going to start watching Cruz more closely. Sort of like Jeb has no energy and is there a problem with Hillary’s health.
I always love Trump’s comebacks. So much subtext.
That is exactly right -- they even used the same terminology about each other, and Trump was making an additional point directly to Cruz by responding using the exact same words almost, and I'm sure that Cruz got that message, but Limbaugh apparently did not.
Limbaugh and his staff either did not do a good enough job researching the whole story, or they were deliberately misleading their audience about it. In either case, it was a shabby, "half-fast" job of addressing that point, and was not up to Limbaugh's usual level of quality in his show.
Since both Cruz and Trump said essentially the same things, if Trump is "Donald McCain", then Cruz is "Teddy McCain", and Limbaugh is "Rush Stephanopoulos". As a long-time listener of Rush, I'm afraid it is becoming clear that he has been losing it more and more lately. In addition to his physical hearing disability, he has been having extraordinary trouble lately trying to grasp what callers are trying to say, and more and more often, he has to ask his staff to clarify what a caller is saying, even though it is quite clear to everyone else who is listening.
Rush is also getting very carried away with his "infomercials" for his Rush Revere books (fastracking calls from little kids and moms who liked his books, and dragging those calls out too long), as well as talk about "Two If By Tea", talk (and even his own personal "tech support" for sometimes) involving Apple products like watches, IPADS, IPODS, (etc.), and talk about golf, or football, or other off-the-track subjects. (I told them truthfully today in an email that whenever he goes off the track like that into one of those boring blah-blah-blah segments, I immediately change stations, or just turn the radio off.)
It is sad, but Rush is getting a bit "advanced in age", and I believe he is slowing down, and his mind is "meandering" a bit lately. (Still listening, though, except when he goes way off the track like that.)