Kathleen Parker on GOP Debate: ‘It Was a Very Good Night for Kasich’

‘It was mutually-assured destruction last night’

CILLIZZA: "If any other candidate, literally in politics in America performed the way that Donald Trump did in that debate last night, I would have written and concluded this person has gone off the rails. He looked angry. To Kathleen’s point though, he kept—"
GWEN IFILL: "Oh, we know better than that now."
CILLIZZA: “You spent $36 million,” you know, the thing about the New Hampshire and ads that people don’t care about. But, any sentence that begins, “This is going to doom Donald Trump because,” has been proven wrong so many times."
PARKER: "Yeah, over and over."
CILLIZZA: "What’s the point?"
FOURNIER: "And it’s not so much about Trump, it’s about the people who are supporting him, who are so angry with the establishment, why do we assume that they’re going to defend the establishment, they’re going to defend Bush—"
IFILL: "But you know what, it was interesting to watch Marco Rubio, who’s found a way to wait, to let the fight between Trump, Cruz, and Bush play out. And then he said, “And this is what I believe,” and he did it in that fluid, non-repetitive way, that we have come to know that Marco Rubio can do. And I think in that respect, he did himself a favor last night."
PARKER: "It was mutually-assured destruction last night, and it was a very good night for Kasich."

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