It was Carly Fiorina’s night last night. In the very crowded Republican clown car full of fatuous blowhards and screaming hawks, she stood out by being able to think on her feet quickly enough to use standard lines from her well honed, road tested stump speech to good effect as if they were spontaneous answers to the question. Compared to the others she seemed sharp and well-informed and the media dubbed her the big winner.
Fiorina has come a long way since the days of the “Demon Sheep.”
Last night, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked her about Trump’s rude comments insulting her looks in Rolling Stone. She smoothly used something Trump had said earlier to segue into a prepared line, that she thought “women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said.” Then she stood still and stone-faced, staring forward while Trump stammered that he thought she had a “beautiful face” and was a beautiful woman. She never looked at him. It may have gotten the biggest applause of the night.