Supporters of Ted Cruz have been waiting for him to break out and shine in these debates. There have been some flashes of brilliance (Read Ted Cruz Drops the Hammer on Liberal Moderators), but for the most part when he speaks it resembles this a little bit...

That's starting to change, though there might always be a Mr. Rogers turn of phrase. Watch how Ted Cruz answered this question on illegal immigration. Then spread it like a California wild fire, because those meanie greenies created the drought by not allowing reservoirs...

I will say for those of us who believe people ought to come to this country legally and we should enforce the law, we're tired of being told, it’s anti-immigrant. It's offensive. I am the son of an immigrant who came legally from Cuba to seek the American dream and we can embrace legal immigrations while believing in the rule of law and I would note, try going illegally to another country. Try going to China or Japan. Try going into Mexico. See what they do.

Republicans have been answering questions about illegal immigration for eleventy hundred thousand years. But last night Ted Cruz summed it up in a soundbite. Kind of.  Eleventy hundred thousand years of debating illegal immigration is bad versus no it isn't, you racist, and last night it took a guy better known as Mr. Rogers to school the other idiots on what's actually offensive about the argument: the way people claim not to know the difference between illegal immigration and actual immigration.

Gracias, Ted Cruz. You're now free to put on your inside sweater and slippers.