As i noted earlier, I only watched perhaps 90 minutes of last night’s cage match.
I’m going to give my impressions anyway – one candidate at a time. I’m going to start with Ted Cruz.
What the conservative pundocracy says: It was the performance he needed to stay on the short list.
What I say: And how. His jeremiad against the media was a watershed, both within the debate and (I can dream), within the party; it’s restarted the discussion about getting the GOP out of the major-media “debate” / reality show racket. If he serves no other purposes in this campaign, last night’s contribution could turn out to be a fantastic thing.
Verdict: Excellent.
The only conservative, principled candidate in the bunch. What is telling, he continues to maintain his support base while other’s ebbs and flows. And unlike ?Jeb? who only gets 5% of his donations from common folk, Cruz’s tally is more like 95% (for effect, I cannot recall exact number). Now that’s grassroots.
On my shortlist. Excellent performance, always quick on his feet.
Cruz never disappoints.