I’m pleased they’re showing up. Huckabee just bashed Cruz. (Heard it on Rush a moment ago.) Seems no one really does like him!
Huck <3 Trump
The whole thing was a head-fake. There was no Megyn Kelly. That was a feint. Trump needed a dramatic reason, a theatrical reason, to walk out of the last debate. Megyn Kelly was the most convenient tool at his disposal to do so. And she worked perfectly. Because everyone gleefully volunteered to be suckered in by the head-fake, the rope-a-dope, and jump all over Trump with the joyous accusations of *afraid of a girl*, *afraid to debate*, and basically ignore the walk-away as the supreme act of *independent leadership* that it was.
An act that pulled Huckabee and Santorum, the previous two Iowa winners, into his corner (or at least into his arena) just days before the Iowa vote and, in an instance of incredible irony, at the same time as the main-table debate after they both came off the kiddie-table debate.
They move from the kiddie table to the central arena, an arena that makes the main debate something less than the kiddie debate!
Huckabee and Santorum get their revenge on the Big Boys and lend last-minute historical Iowa star power to Trump.
But as good as that is for Trump, even better is the one-on-one debate challenge from Cruz, which never would have occurred if Trump had slogged his way through another dreary #7 but now allowed him to say WITH THE FULL MEGAPHONE OF TOTAL MEDIA ATTENTION:
When a judge says you are eligible, then a one-on-one is ok.
Check and mate.
Masterful.