[mandaladon]

If you’re as fed up with Ted Cruz’s fake sincerity act as I am, this was a thing of beauty, but if you’re a Republican primary voter trying to make up your mind, it’s a gut punch to Cruz’s entire narrative. Trump had him dead to rights, and even though Cruz had an impressive array of spin at the ready, he didn’t even bother to try.................Poor Cruz!

[Diogenesis]

fabricaTED busTED

[traderrob6]

“...as Ted Cruz was launching into one of his patented Eighth-Grader-Reciting-His-Book-Report-As-Though-It’s-A-Shakespeare-Sonnet.”

I love these unbiased straight news stories.

[ClearCase_guy]

It was an awful debate for Ted.

[EternalVigilance]

TRUMP: … if you look back to Iowa, Ted did change his view and his stance on ethanol quite a bit. He did and — at the end. Not full on, but he did change his view in the hopes of maybe doing well. And you know, I think everybody knows that. It was a front page story all over the place, and he did make a change.

I'm not a Cruz supporter, but the obvious fact should be pointed out that Trump "changed" pretty much every hardcore left-wing position he ever held during his adult lifetime in order to run for president as a Republican.

[Liz]

In the Texas prez primary, Cruz did not do as well as expected even w/ Texas Gov Abbott running the show. Cruz didn’t even come close to winning a majority in Texas. He would have gotten a lot more delegates if he had.

Cruz got 1,239,370 votes but that/s only 44% of the vote---he would have needed to reach 50% to get every delegate according to Texas/ convoluted rules. He got 102 delegates.

Donald Trump got 757,618 votes....27% of the vote....he got 47 delegates. Rubio got 502,223 votes....that/s 18% ...he ended up w/ 3 Texas delegates.

Cruz spent a bundle but came away looking like a reject.

[VideoDoctor]

I just watched a HUGE pivot when Dr. Ben Carson endorsed Trump about 50 minutes ago.

The power of what I witnessed will resonate for the next 4 or 5 days as we lead up to next Tuesday's Primaries in Florida and Ohio.

Both Carson and Trump elevated themselves with the dialogue that was delivered this morning. It was BIG.

[smokingfrog]

One of the most childish screeds I’ve ever read.

[20yearsofinternet]

Listen, if you are fed up with Washington, the question you ought to be asking is who is willing to take on Washington?

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By “take on” Washington, I assume he means invite them all into his administration? Like he did with Neil Bush?

[jpsb]

If you’re as fed up with Ted Cruz’s fake sincerity act as I am, this was a thing of beauty

Ouch, that is going to leave a mark.

[RummyChick]

“It came about an hour into the debate, as Ted Cruz was launching into one of his patented Eighth-Grader-Reciting-His-Book-Report-As-Though-It’s-A-Shakespeare-Sonnet”

I hate the media but this comment is pretty good

[neocon1984]

I thought this was a conservative web-site, but I must be mistaken. Let’s see what we have here:

1. Donnie Trump is a Democrat and a crony capitalist;

2. Marco Rubio is young squish learning to grow up;

3. John Kasich is a liberal Republican and;

4. Ted Cruz is a Constitutional conservative.

Who gets bashed here?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

It didn’t go unnoticed. Trump lied. All over the Internet people instantly responded “Trump is lying.”

[NoDRodee]

When did Cruz ever change his position on ethanol?
What front page story is Trump talking about?

I watch pretty closely and don’t remember this, I do remember Trump criticizing Cruz for being against the mandates. I even remember the video that was all over FR late in the Iowa campaign where the farmer questioned Cruz about being against the mandate, A Cruz held his position.

I think Rubio killed Trump a lot worse on the Cuba:
Trumps only point was he would keep relations with Cuba and make great deals, great deals, great deals, without one bit of substance

Rubio slammed Trump buy telling the people what a great deal would be, by listing off all the details, made Trump look stupid.

[Fundamentally Fair]

Crush? I have laugh.

He merely refused to engage the ill-informed, inarticulate Trump.

[saywhatagain]

I not going to take the time to defend and cite articles, but this was one issue (ethanol) I followed closely. Mr. trump is clearly wrong on this. The problem with Cruz was the way he masterfully handled this was nuanced and I believe most did not "get" what he did"

In short he showed the farmers there was more advantage to them to drop subsidies and then he shared his energy plan to which they bought into. Again I am short on details in the moment without the citation, but it was brilliant what Cruz did. He saw an alternative to a problem and solved it.

[No_More_Harkin]

This just in from Tommy “I Hate Cruz” Christopher:
“Trump Mops floor with Cruz! Utterly decimates him! Cruz needs to get out now before he embarrasses himself further! I honestly felt shame for him. He was so pathetic, he should really drop out of the race, just move back to Cuba or Canada or wherever the hell he’s from. He’s not American, and probably funneling money to Cuba, Canada or some other communist America-hating country. I think Cruz started to cry during one of his marathon, cringe-inducing pauses. YES! Cruz starts crying!! I’m changing the headline to ‘Perfect No-Flaw Trump makes bedwetting, Cunadian Cruz cry in debate’.
Everyone knows Supergod Trump will never make a mistake in office or do anything anti-conservative, and he showed this by humiliating and blasting Cruz back to Canada, eh. Cruz isn’t even eligible to be prez and Trump SMOKED him. All praise The Don!!
signed, Tommy C.

[AuntB]

Drudge Report...who won the debate?

TRUMP 63.62% (248,905 votes)

CRUZ 24.59% (96,207 votes)

RUBIO 6.37% (24,907 votes)

KASICH 5.42% (21,238 votes)

[John Valentine]

Trump sinply leid again, but to credit Trump’s lie with ‘crushing’ Cruz is laughable.

[mtrott]

That’s ridiculous. Trump in no way “crushed” Cruz on ethanol. Cruz has always favored phasing out the RFS mandates. He opposes any mandates or subsidies for any particular forms of energy.

By pandering to the ethanol lobby and the Iowa governor, Trump showed just how comfortable he is with crony capitalism, and how easily manipulated he can be when it is to his political advantage. Cruz was the ONLY one who did not pander to the ethanol lobby. Geez.

[TexasCajun]

Hummm.

Check out Hillary's first ad she'll be running against Donald Trump & his changing views.

Short 2:27 of Trump's ever-changing views on many topics.

Watch and see what Hillary & the Dems are going to throw at Trump.

Trump changing views good.

Cruz changing views bad.

...got it.