Open thread for the CBS debate.
Update:

For those who missed the #GOPDebate, here's a quick recap: https://t.co/mlwH4qB4TM pic.twitter.com/Gcy6p1SYml

— Duane Lester (@ThatDuaneLester) February 14, 2016

This campaign was always about citizenship–taking back our country from a political class that only serves the big, the powerful, the wealthy, and the well connected. Election after election, the same empty promises are made and the same poll-tested stump speeches are given, but nothing changes. I’ve said throughout this campaign that I will not sit down and be quiet. I’m not going to start now. While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that no longer works for them.
And it looks like Christie too.

For the political junkies.
Headlines at Drudge tell the story of the night…

Watch as Team Cruz turns over their playbook 80 yards from the end zone.

I report, you decide: I went to see Marco Rubio’s town hall this afternoon in Salem, New Hampshire. It was only a few miles from my hotel-I really had no excuse. I wanted to find out: Was Rubio really as slick and insubstantial in this setting as John Edwards? Answer: No. He’s slicker.

About half of the precincts are in.
Cruz 28.9%
Trump 25.2%
Rubio 21.1%

A man whose time has come.

The 8 Mile Rule, in action: “I will gladly accept the mantle of anger”

.@acoyne @davidakin Until Chelsea Clinton debates Monica Lewinski to get on Presidential ticket, they got nothing on us. #Trudeau #Coyne

— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 15, 2016

I amuse myself.

Peggy Noonan;

I do not understand the inability or refusal of Republican leaders to take Mr. Trump seriously. They take his numbers seriously–they can read a poll–but they think, as Mr. Bush said, that his support is all about anger, angst and theatrics. That’s part of the story, but the other, more consequential part has to do with real policy issues. The establishment refuses to see that, because to admit it is to implicate themselves and their leadership. Political consultants can’t see it because they don’t think issues matter–not to them and certainly not to the dumb voters.
But issues do matter, and Mr. Trump has functioned this year not as a great communicator or great compromiser but as the great disruptor. He brags that he has brought up great questions and forced other candidates to face them and sometimes change their stands–and he has. He changed the debate on illegal immigration. He said he’d build a wall and close the border and as the months passed and his competitors saw his surge, they too were suddenly, clearly, aggressively for ending illegal immigration.
Mr. Trump touched an important nerve in opposing the political correctness that has angered the American people for a quarter century. He changed the debate when he asked for a pause in Muslim immigration until America “can figure out what’s going on.” In the age of terror, that looked suspiciously like common sense. Americans do not want America to become what Europe is becoming.

Her piece suggests she’s read Tom Nichols on How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump.
And then there’s this:

HOW FAR HAS TRUMP MOVED THE OVERTON WINDOW? THIS FAR: Tom Friedman calls for “controlling low-skilled immigration.”

Check that post title again. I call it the 8-Mile Rule, and I’ve been talking about it long before Trump came along.

This is a good ad: Invasion.

“How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump:”

When The New York Times tells the rubes that it’s time to hand in their guns, when The Washington Post suggests that Jesus is ashamed of them for not welcoming Syrian refugees the week after a terrorist attack, people react not because they love guns or hate Syrians, but because their natural urge to being told by coastal liberals that they’re awful people and that they should just obey and shut up is to issue a certain Anglo-Saxon verb and pronoun combination with all the vigor they can muster. And if they can’t say it themselves, they’ll find someone who will, even if it’s a crude jerk from Queens who can’t make a point without raising his pinky like a Mafia goon explaining the vig to you after you’ve had a bad day at the track.

(h/t Ed Driscoll at Instapundit)

And more here.

Via Don Surber;

As regular readers know, I’m a trained hypnotist. And to me, Hillary Clinton looks as if she is hiding a major health issue. If you read Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, you know that so-called “experts” can sometimes instantly make decisions before they know why. In my case, I am going to make an “expert” hypnotist prediction about Hillary Clinton without knowing exactly which clues I am picking up, or whether I am hallucinating them.

Not exactly a novel conjecture, but there’s more. Interesting stuff.