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Not directed to me, but I'll answer it anyway. It seemed like Trump was flat-out abused by the moderators, although he brought a lot of that on himself with the way he was answering them. Everyone else had some curveballs thrown their way. No one was really handled with kid gloves, although Huckabee and Kasich seemed like they were given lighter questions overall. Cruz definitely got a few softball questions, although I seem to recall a couple of them coming right after a moderator body-slammed Trump, so maybe they just felt easier by comparison. One could speculate that Huckabee's status as a former colleague (and, soon, a former candidate) probably won him some favor, and Kasich just doesn't have the type of resume that Rand Paul or Jeb Bush bring to the table, nor does he have the type of mouth that Cruz, Rubio or Trump possess.

 

I'll say this: considering that it was a Republican debate on Fox News, I was expecting them to absolutely hammer a few candidates that Murdoch doesn't want around, and throw wiffle balls at guys they want to see in it down the road. I didn't really see much of that, certainly not to the extent that I would expect an MSNBC Democratic debate to beat Bernie Sanders into a pulp then hand his remains to Hillary Clinton.