What were they thinking? I’m referring to the CNBC questioners in last night’s Republican presidential debate. They started the 2-hour session by asking Donald Trump if he was conducting “a comic book version” of a campaign? Mike Huckabee was asked to rate Trump’s “moral authority” to be president? (Huckabee refused.) And so on with gotcha questions.

The CNBC panelists seemed oblivious to how they came across and how eager they appeared to embarrass the candidates, often on trivial matters.  Marco Rubio’s cashing in a small retirement fund and paying a fine for doing so – that was their idea of an important issue.