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A GOP DEBATE WITHOUT DONALD TRUMP is a lot like a debate with Trump, except you have to listen to more Ted Cruz.
AGAIN, MARCO RUBIO ATTEMPTED to use his child preacher from There Will Be Blood over-religiosity to overcome his lack of accomplishments, plans or the later stages of puberty.
AGAIN, JEB BUSH SEEMED LIKE HE WAS GOING TO CRY every time he thought of Trump. Again, Rand Paul gave one reasonable answer and then spent the rest of the time trying to work in the fun way he says, “Mar-ko.”
BUT IT WAS TED CRUZ'S NIGHT to remind everyone why he’s less popular in Washington D.C. than a wet toilet seat.
THE JUNIOR SENATOR, FORMER DONALD TRUMP APPRENTICE and monster who escaped from a laboratory before he finished baking was the focus of the night, as the billionaire frontrunner skipped the event to host a faux-veterans’ charity event that looked like a DeVry graduation.
ALL IN ALL, THE NIGHT REMINDED AMERICA of what the GOP primary would have looked like without Trump: mostly the same, with a less jittery Jeb and fewer Americans aware that the party is more interested in building a wall against Muslims than keeping lead out of the drinking water.