While the Democrats in the race embrace the failed European model of Muslim immigration and assimilation, the Republicans are striving for something different. Rather than waste our time in prurient discussions of hand sizes, the campaigns need to force these issues into the media.

President of the United States Barack Obama spent fifty-one seconds on March 22 expressing concerns and condolences related to the deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium before heading to a baseball game with Raul Castro during his visit to Cuba.

If Marco Rubio really wanted to deny Trump a win in Florida, he would step aside and endorse his Senate colleague Ted Cruz, who could mount an effective mano y mano challenge against Trump, and doesn’t suffer from the stench of constant defeat.

Mitt Romney is the candidate who was sold as the best chance to win against President Obama in 2012, and then proceeded to stumble so badly that his campaign couldn’t even provide election volunteers with working get-out-the-vote software. It is no surprise that the GOP establishment’s choice in 2012 is upset that primary voters aren’t toeing the line after the debacles of eight and four years ago.

The question the hashtag warriors need to ask themselves is whether they are willing to throw their support and effort behind the only candidate in the race who can beat Trump nationally – Senator Ted Cruz.

Can you imagine being forced to train your replacement when the corporation that preached family to you decided they could go cheaper if they just imported a foreign worker?

Since CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s fateful on air speech on February 19, 2009, the words “tea party” have invoked hate and vitriol from the left, fear from the GOP establishment and near reverence from the right, yet they are virtually unspoken in this election season.

Do issues still matter to Republican voters, or are they so mad at the failed GOP establishment that they have forgotten what made them mad in the first place? Donald Trump’s past flirtation with a nationalized government run health care system brings this question starkly into play.

Senator John Cornyn, whose sense of empathy must have developed at Washington, D.C. cocktail parties, should prove he truly cares for people whose neighborhoods have been ravaged by drugs and violent crimes by moving to those one of those neighborhoods so he can see for himself the impact of releasing early thousands of hardened drug kingpins and violent criminals back on to the streets of America.

At this juncture, I don’t know what makes Trump tick. The good news is that the people of Iowa and New Hampshire have a unique opportunity to meet and talk to each of these candidates. They will have taken the measure of them, and render a decision that will narrow the choices for the rest of us.