Morning Briefing: Jeb Bush: A Good Man Whose Time is In the Past

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Jeb Bush: A Good Man Whose Time is in the Past Jeb Bush is a really nice guy. He really does care about the future of the country. He clearly did not want to go on the attack. Bush's donors are worried he does not have what it takes to stay on the campaign trail. Bush needed to show them he had the fire in the belly. His half-hearted attack on Rubio was his version of his father saying "message: I care" on the campaign trail. Read More

Rubio Says Media is a Super PAC for Democrats; Media Take to Twitter to Prove It The media hate this on many levels. The foremost reason is that they are so pitifully, irrevocably in the tank for Hillary Clinton. They are invested in her. She is their new The One. But they still have to at least make a token effort at journalism. So as a result, they have come kicking and screaming to the stories of Hillary's emails, of Benghazi, of deception. They think you don't know. That's the best part. They think you don't remember. Read More

Ted Cruz Had a Very, Very Good Night Last night at the CNBC debate, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) had a very, very good night. Even leftwing activists liked his answers and attack on the media. Liberal Hollywood comedian Patton Oswalt tweeted, "I hate Ted Cruz with the power of a million chainsaws revving but I agree with everything he just said." Today, people are still cheering on Cruz's comment about the Democrats' debate. Read More Sponsored

Charlie Rose Defends Hillary's Benghazi Lie and Rubio is Having None of It (Video) It shows really just how unflappable Rubio has become. He didn't hesitate, waver or second guess himself. Each time Rose tried to trip him up, Rubio was ready for it. It should serve as a warning for all GOP candidates. No matter who the nominee is, this will be standard fare for them in a general election cycle with Hillary Clinton. The media pretends to be calm, cool and completely fair, but in reality they are like Smeagol playing nice right up until that moment when Republicans threaten "the precious" (a metaphor really for any Democrat) at which point the media becomes Gollum, flying into a spittle-flecked rage to protect it. Read More

Why We Should and Must Blame Reince Priebus for the CNBC Debate Fiasco My friend and colleague (not to mention boss here at RedState) posted earlier today on why we should not blame the RNC and its chairman, Reince Priebus, for the travesty CNBC inflicted upon its viewers last night. As expected, Erick makes some very good points but I think he lets Preibus and company off too easy. Let's take a dispassionate look at what happened and what could have happened. Read More

Sponsored Here is Why I do not Blame the RNC for the CNBC Debate Reince Priebus was very quick to denounce the CNBC debate after it was over. He was right too. But let's not kid ourselves. Part of the reason he did so was because it was a public relations disaster for the RNC, which took charge of orchestrating the debates this year. But that is actually why I do not blame the RNC. Have we forgotten 2012? Read More

Since I called Ben Carson the frontrunner, He's Kept Winning Polls If this cycle's history servers, we're going to have a lag between the debate last night, and the next round of polls after the debate. Pollsters are rushing to get in their polls before the debate, rather than after. It turns out they get more headlines by being part of the debate inclusion criteria, than they do for measuring the results of the poll. So we go to war with the polls we have. Since I declared Ben Carson the frontrunner, the polls we have continue to give Carson the edge over Donald Trump in the GOP Presidential race. Read More

How do We Fix Education in the United States? Earlier, I put up a piece on national test scores falling for the first time since the test began in 1990. It's the first time we've seen such a dip, so it is not a trend. It's not indicative of where we are headed. However, we do have a pretty good idea that things could get worse before they get better. One of the reasons for this is Common Core. Read More

CNBC Dumpster Fire Debate Brings in 14 Million Viewers Ten million less than the first two*; mind you, the first two weren't playing opposite the World Series and were available online via free streaming. You have to wonder whether or not CNBC is relieved that they didn't make that aforementioned dumpster fire of a debate freely available: on the one hand, if they had then more people would have watched CNBC that night. On the other hand, if they had then more people would have watched CNBC that night. On the gripping hand, CNBC should probably enjoy their record numbers and/or ad revenue from last night, because it's going to be a cold day in Perdition before the GOP will let them host another one. Read More Sponsored

Sincerely yours, Leon Wolf Editor-in-Chief, RedState