Debate 3: Ted Cruz Changes the Game

There was a disturbance in the force last night at CNBC's Republican debate, and it left no doubt of who won and who lost.  The loser was CNBC, and the winners were all ten Republican candidates – in varying degrees, of course.  (More on that later).  And there is no doubt when this shift in the axis happened.   Everything changed when Ted Cruz dressed down Carl Quintenilla and John Harwood – two of CNBC's far-left commentators – and literally mocked their absurd line of questioning. Cruz did not just criticize the questions; he made sport of them.  He demonstrated just how infantile most of the CNBC crew was (Tea Party originator Rick Santelli not included).  Cruz  flat-out embarrassed them, and they knew it. After the crowd stopped roaring in approval of Cruz's protest, which took a while, the rest of the Republicans followed the Texas senator's lead, and there was almost no Republican-on-Republican...(Read Full Article)