Peggy Noonan: Trump Damaged Himself by Revealing a ‘Deeper Coarseness and Brutality’

O’DONNELL: “Do you think there is long lasting damage for the party based on what he said? I mean Jeb Bush finally said this has got to stop, you can't insult 53 percent of the electorate.”

NOONAN: “Yes, and Lindsey Graham said I think something like that. We’ll see. It’s possible that Trump will have a poisonous effect on the reputation of the Republican presidential field, but I still can't help but think people see Trump as Trump, not as, ‘Republican, but as the Donald. We’ll see.”

UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Will that various groups that he's offended though -- how does he grow his support from there. I mean he’s got to start talking about policy at some point.”

NOONAN: “Yes. He ought to make that shift real soon and we’ll see. He will be talking, you know, he loves to be on the media, he loves to be the focus of all eyes, he loves to be the big dog. He'll be making pronouncements I’m sure over the next few days, and trying to dig himself out, but I suspect he's done himself real damage by revealing a deeper coarseness and almost brutality than a lot of people would have thought was there.”

O’DONNELL: “What do you mean coarseness and brutality?”

NOONAN: “When you talk about women and the way he does, you know, and also that Megyn Kelly question in which she quoted him at length, it startled even me and I’m a New Yorker. I’ve been watching and seeing Donald Trump for a quarter century. So, I was startled, if I was startled probably a number were startled.

ROSE: “By the quality of what he said?”

NOONAN: “Yes, by the nature of his insults.”