To be honest I could only stomach about half of it but that half was informative. There were some winners and losers as one would expect. I thought the moderators did a good job and asked good questions. The participants just were not very good at answering them.
The winners:
Marco Rubio and John Kasich.
The losers:
The rest. I had heard from several people that the biggest mistake Donald Trump could make was to go after Megyn Kelly but that’s exactly what he did on the second question. FOX will be playing that clip the next few days. Jeb Bush came off as someone who was not ready for prime time. Rand Paul combativeness reminded me of his father and that never got Ron Paul anywhere near the White House. Ted Cruz was well Ted Cruz. Chris Christie is pretty much toast anyway and he didn’t help himself. The rest didn’t really hurt themselves but didn’t help themselves either.
It was certainly more combative than I thought it would be – just what the RNC did not want. Trump has said that Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes wanted to take him down and judging from the questions tonight that is one thing he may have been right about.