I understand your point, HDDJ. Every parent knows you only have so much control over your kids actions. But it is interesting that her kids are somewhat of a train wreck while the 2 people she attacks the most, President Obama and Hillary Clinton, obviously have greater parenting skills.

Trump leads Cruz 48-32% in Florida, which is a huge prize. Home grown Rubio and Bush have only 11 and 10%. I think we have to consider Trump to be a slight favorite at this point to win the nomination.

Leave it the generals and defense secretary, if we can find and employ any rational effective ones.

It's hard to wrap my head around but it's seeming more possible. I think it's quite likely that things will shift when the field narrows because while trump has gained some support, he still ranks poorly in the "second choice" category. With 65% of Republicans still favoring other candidates, it's quite possible they will throw their support around an alternative as their first choice leaves the race. Is Cruz a better choice? I honestly can't say. Judging from Trump's past positions I actually have more faith that Trump would make reasonable decisions than a screaming ideologue like Cruz. Trump is an egotist and shameless self-promoter who is saying a lot of truly ugly things to get elected but he's also not married to a bizarre, destructive ethos.

Why not? She knowingly transmitted Affluenza to him.

While speaking at a Donald Trump campaign stop Wednesday in Tulsa, Okla., Sarah Palin addressed the "elephant in the room": her son Track's domestic violence arrest. And she seemingly pinned it on a perceived lack of respect for military veterans on the part of President Obama.

"My son, like so many others, they come back a bit different, they come back hardened," she said. "They come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airman and every other member of the military so sacrificially have given to this country," she added. "And that starts from the top."

"That comes from our own president," she elaborated, "where they have to look at him and wonder, 'Do you know what we go through? Do you know what we're trying to do to secure America?'"

"So when my own son is going through what he goes through coming back, I can certainly relate with other families who kind of feel these ramifications of some PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with," she continued before pivoting back to her Trump endorsement. "And it makes me realize, more than ever, it is now or never, for the sake of America's finest, that we have that commander-in-chief who will respect them and honor them."

. I think we have to consider Trump to be a slight favorite at this point to win the nomination.