Ted Cruz wins Kansas: Did the debate the other night help him do it?

AoSHQ: Ted wins Kansas and is leading in Maine

I thought Donald Trump (with the exception of Chris Christie in the background) was very good post Super Tuesday. He gave a very...classy if you will...statement following his win. He also did a decent job fielding questions from the press.  At the time I thought, he is starting to pivot for the general. 

But that debate the other night in Michigan was a disaster.  I did that post about Trump and Megyn Kelly as a joke beforehand, but it might as well have been a clown pie fest (and not in a good way). The back and forth between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio was exceptionally bad. Trump did not do himself any favors.  It is not just the candidates, the raucous partisan audience does not help either (and that blame goes to the RNC). 

Instapundit: Super Saturday, Ted takes 2, Trump takes Louisiana (probably Kentucky), Ted wins Kansas and How Trump plays the media

AoSHQ: Cruz surges, Trump flat, Rubio collapses

RedState: A surprise winner in Kansas (by a lot), Kansas confirmed for Ted, and Trump booed in Kansas

Trans-Kansas!  No wonder Caitlyn Jenner is for Cruz!

DaTechGuy: The ignored stat in Ted's favor

Trooper York/Lem's: John Kluge: An Open Letter To The Conservative Movement

NY Post/Godwin: How Trump can win in the general

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Hillary Clinton had a bad day in court today...

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, D.C. Court of Appeals

DRUDGE REPORT: This does not seem like a good thing for Team Hillary

Instapundit: Paul Mirengoff: A Bad Day for Hillary in Federal Court, Apocalyptic Democrats

Hot Air: Bloomberg's path to the Presidency?

Rush Limbaugh: Liberals know Hillary is vulnerable

Lem's Levity: Subpoena threat against Hillary and Huma

Hillary said her enemies were Republicans. Can we take her at her word? @instapundit @AceofSpadesHQ @NolteNC @jtLOL https://t.co/9wrRNv5Jee

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) February 24, 2016

Rush Limbaugh: What is really at stake in this election, Anger, and Victory

Jazz Shaw: Trump ran the table in Nevada

American Power: Trump Steamroller?  

AoSHQ: Robert Reich endorses Cruz

RedState: Discovery against Hillary

Trump goes after Huma (and her deviant husband too) and if only the Establishment GOP would learn...

Rush Limbaugh: Trump Goes After Huma (via UK Daily Mail) and Hillary wants a coronation

It is not just the sexual stuff, as AoSHQ notes, Hillary is a walking national security disaster

Instapundit: Dems try to draft Joe Biden, Hillary is a 1%er Candidate, Hillary tried to hide her $600 haircut, the movie Hillary should be worried about, and is labor pulling out of Hillary and will the main debate be a circus? (I think not, but the second debate matters to me just as much)

Republicans need to direct their fire at the Democrats: This works and this does not (Mitt we don't need help like this).  

Establishment Republicans can't help themselves...

Huma will move into the White House if Hillary wins 

EBL: Separated at Birth: Bill Clinton and...?

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Instapundit/Elizabeth Price Foley: Huma Abedin and her special relationship with the Clintons (so what if it violates the law, laws are for little people)

You know you are over the target when you start getting flak

Twitchy: Huma over paid $10K while at the State Department

The Donald, Hillary, and Jeb

Rub A Dub Dub

Smitty: Three Candidates In A Tub
Mark Steyn: The competing interests of Saudis, Iranian and Canadians

EBL: How Jonah Goldberg stopped worrying and learned to love The Donald

DaTechGuy: Remember The Donald Doesn't Need The RNC

TOM: Gawker, why we hate them
Smitty: Friday Ficton
Wombat: Mark Steyn: The Enemy Within
Camp of the Saints: The House of Special Purpose
Instapundit: Was he into hunting?, a pack, not a herd, Gone With The Wind, Hiram residents hold watch, Gawker!, looking for populism in all the wrong places, and where Birtherism began

You think this Trump attack on McCain is not orchestrated to appeal to a certain segment of the GOP base?
Instapundit: Trump does punch back twice as hard and the media goes out of its way to protect those on the left
Smitty: Ted's Testicles and McConnell's Soft Hands

Hillary reaches out to all voters...

Gateway Pundit: Hillary Clinton shaking hands with a voter with white power tattoos (read the whole thing)

Given Hillary could lose Iowa to Bernie Sanders, she must figure she needs all the help she can get.  Bernie Sanders also says 99.9% of gun owners obey the law! What's Hillary's response to that?

Legal Insurrection: Hillary responds to Press Access and Bernie Sanders

Howdy Howdy: Let's Rope Up Some Media!

Wombat: Mark Steyn: That white power dude better be pro same sex marriage though, or all bets are off between him and Hillary!

Instapundit: And people say she lacks a sense of humor and she says this is her last rodeo

Lem's Levity/Trooper York: You've got mail!
Twitchy: Now you see it, now you don't!
Instapundit: Hillary "White Power" Clinton and watch and learn Republicans
Rush Limbaugh: Hillary Clinton's Media Follies

Glenn Reynolds on Jeb! With bonus Donald Trump!

@instapundit @USATODAY but but #Jeb! #WinterIsComing pic.twitter.com/fJpRgfarbm

— JeSuisEBL (@MsEBL) June 16, 2015 

Instapundit: Glenn's thoughts on Jeb's announcement, the resurrection of compassionate conservatism, but he did loose weight!

Oh wait today is Donald Trump's big announcement too

@rsmccain you know how you achieve #AmericaReinaissance #TrumpCombOver #ShortFingeredVulgarian #Trump2016 #tcot #Spy pic.twitter.com/PuOdsmjzEn

— JeSuisEBL (@MsEBL) June 16, 2015

Twitchy: The Donald proposes Oprah as his vice president...
Beware the Donald: Rush and DaTechGuy (via Instapundit)
Smitty responds: We Can Haz #PartyLikeIts1992?

#Trumplebrags "Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money." #TheDonald about himself @rsmccain pic.twitter.com/ueIHvybARj

— JeSuisEBL (@MsEBL) June 17, 2015

DaTechGuy: The Missing Words from Donald Trump's Speech
Rush Limbaugh: Conservative media should hit Hillary harder than they hit Trump (I agree, although I would say so called conservative candidates like Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are the ones treating Hillary with kid gloves).  

"More and more...civilization appear to be in the hands of the clinically insane," @marksteynonline on Dolezal & co: http://t.co/QBbWze1QEx

— Ed Driscoll (@EdDriscoll) June 17, 2015

RRG: Jeb!
WTF!
Instapundit: What tattoo artists can teach Republicans

Friday Night Memorial Day Document Dump: Cheryl Mils and Hillary Clinton Come to Jesus Rule 5

Ace and Allahpundit note the creepy reporter comments going on while Hillary was testifying

 Legal Insurrection: State Department releases heavily redacted emails

Classified Benghazi communications went to Hillary's private email! Super!

Ambassador Chris Stevens regrets being unable to attend any Hollywood galas

Sidney Blumenthal emails?  Sidney Blumenthal is the human equivalent of a semen stained dress.

Breitbart: Polls show people do care about Hillary's emails after all

Rule 5 and FMJRA

daaaaaaamn pic.twitter.com/R2Z6SorFxJ

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 22, 2015

Since the State Department is engaged in some creative fiction and editing: Here is Smitty's Friday Night Challenge

Hillary Has Her Own Monica Rule 5 

Instapundit: If the GOP loses in 2016 it will be traced to this trade deal, at least we know what we get with Hillary, Decadent Dying America, and Bob Belvedere predicted this long ago!

Mark Steyn: This Guy is Bonkers (Hillary too)

Rubio Rising?

Making the Argument Against Obama's Cuba Policy:  

Ace of Spades and Lem's note Rubio's appearance on Mark Levin…

As Ace noted, the argument that fifty years of the same (which is what Obama is saying justifies his change in Cuba) is a persuasive sound bite.  But Rubio give a thoughtful and positioned response why that is wrong.  

Rand Paul did not help himself…

While some wait for Christmas…

Smitty waits for CPAC (why did Dave Brat win)

Wombat : Hispanics, Blacks and Immigrants approve Obama's executive amnesty 2:1, whites oppose 2:1.
Legal Insurrection: Univision asks Obama, when are you going to take on White Privilege?

Secretly?

Separated at Birth: Mary Landrieu and...?

Landrieu on Republicans: “I’ve beat them every time, and I intend to do it again”

Let's just hope Louisiana is not Minnesota!

Smitty: When the Levee Breaks…

Instapundit: Things to know about this runoff…

538 Blog: Historic defeat predicted

Update:
Landrieu Lost
Instapundit: Pork could not buy Landrieu victory…

What do Mary Landrieu and Louisiana Democrats have in common with these images?

TOM: When Campaigns Implode

Wombat : Mary Landrieu abandoned by Democrats and on her own…

No Lifeboat For You!

The last days of Senator Mary Landrieu

Smitty is right, she would do anything to stay in power…

Anything

Smitty: Shout out to Princess Pelosi

Esta amnistía se todo sobre mí permanecer relevante ... no voy a ser ignorado !

Instapundit y Ed Morrissey: gringo estúpido 

Wombat : Michelle Malkin y Twitchy

Mary Landrieu looks for a new career on Lifetime or the Hallmark Channel...

When your fellow Democrats treat you like you are already dead, there is always Cable TV...

Sorry Mary, Democrats are all about choice...you got the short straw

Sorry Mary, the Democrats in the Senate have bigger things to deal with than you.  

Wombat : Lame duck Democrats kill Keystone

Landrieu Fail

EBL: Mary loves pipeline and too little too late.
Instapundit: Democrat Senate Death Panels have spoken on Mary Landrieu…
Hot Air: Cassidy up 11 over Landrieu

Obama Doubling Down On Keystone: Mary Landrieu abandoned by Democrats

Instapundit: Hasn't learned a thing. Then again, what does he have to lose?  

The Democrat Death Panel has spoken: Poor Mary Landrieu, no tingles for you girl!

All those years in the Senate and now Mary tells us she loves her some pipeline?

Some issues are more important to Obama than others.

No "evolving" on this one.
Obama and the Progressive Dem Wing going with the McGovern Model 2016
Oil prices drop, no thanks to Obama…

Clinton Advisers gathering in Arkansas and Rabbit Drag Queen Rule 5

Clinton Alums getting together in Little Rock

Arkansas Depravity: Clinton Orgies? And not just Bill…

Never let a Rule 5 opportunity pass, even if it is Bugs in Drag:

FMJRA