It seems to me there are two battle lines tonight, two lanes.
1. The Outsider's lane-but in truth the winner's lane. Trump vs. Cruz. How much open hostilities will there be?
Trump's birther attacks on Cruz which the Iowa polls seem to show are working or at least they pretty perfectly correlate with the contest narrowing and Trump leading again in some Iowa polls and now the latest thing about Cruz's loan from Goldman Sachs back in 2012 have clearly got Cruz on his back foot a little.
Cruz came back at him for his 'Ny values' but Trump really did have a great answer to this-talking about NY and its successful struggle to rebuild after 9/11. Trump defended the city in moving terms 'Anyone who messes with NY has to go through me.'
So how much of this will show up tonight?
2. The Establishment lane-aka, the Loser's Lane. Rubio, Jeb, Kasich and Chris Christie will all be fighting for the bronze.
Wouldn't it be great if the subject of whehter Rubio really can 'slime his way to the White House' comes up again-ie is Christie asked about this?
Jeb has been attacking Rubio for-amnesty. Right, Mr. Act of Love is now attacking Rubio for amnesty.
There are lots of great areas to get into. Rubio can talk about Jeb's train wreck campaign, while Jeb can talk about all those Senate votes Rubio is always missing.
This year, the GOP debates are almost pure entertainment. Of course, I say this as a liberal Democrat.
1. The Outsider's lane-but in truth the winner's lane. Trump vs. Cruz. How much open hostilities will there be?
Trump's birther attacks on Cruz which the Iowa polls seem to show are working or at least they pretty perfectly correlate with the contest narrowing and Trump leading again in some Iowa polls and now the latest thing about Cruz's loan from Goldman Sachs back in 2012 have clearly got Cruz on his back foot a little.
Cruz came back at him for his 'Ny values' but Trump really did have a great answer to this-talking about NY and its successful struggle to rebuild after 9/11. Trump defended the city in moving terms 'Anyone who messes with NY has to go through me.'
So how much of this will show up tonight?
2. The Establishment lane-aka, the Loser's Lane. Rubio, Jeb, Kasich and Chris Christie will all be fighting for the bronze.
Wouldn't it be great if the subject of whehter Rubio really can 'slime his way to the White House' comes up again-ie is Christie asked about this?
Jeb has been attacking Rubio for-amnesty. Right, Mr. Act of Love is now attacking Rubio for amnesty.
There are lots of great areas to get into. Rubio can talk about Jeb's train wreck campaign, while Jeb can talk about all those Senate votes Rubio is always missing.
This year, the GOP debates are almost pure entertainment. Of course, I say this as a liberal Democrat.
The only thing to improve on the entertainment aspect would be an "open carry" audience.
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