[LS]

That’s why, in love, I suggested to my Cruzer friends that Cruz couldn’t possibly win last night. It was a mistake, and he should have said, “Don has said a lot of mean things, but when he’s right, he’s right, and it’s more important to go to an event for vets than to sit through two hours of biased horse-hockey!”

[dforest]

Exactly!

[grania]

We're seeing the situation the same way. As the front runner, it was up to Cruz to use his opening statement to take on a Presidential aura and insist that the level of discourse be elevated. Doing that cutesy thing with poking fun at Trump's tendency to vivid description of people made Cruz seem, well, not prepared to move on and discuss the issues.

I thought Santorum and Huckabee were winners. They gave very appropriate and commanding statements at Trump's event. They demonstrated that they were adults with a great set of priorities, and the audience responded real well.