At present it's a very crowded summit with everyone trying to plant a flag but having no base in which to stick it, except for Rick Santorum, perhaps.
The New Hampshire Republican Leadership Summit, Day 2 seems to have had jokes that represent the dismal standard for GOP writing:
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal began his remarks by pretending to have mistakenly read a Clinton stump speech, saying he wanted to talk about President Obama’s “great success” in the Middle East.
“I’m sorry, this is Hillary Clinton’s speech, not my speech,” Jindal said to laughter and applause.
They also mocked Clinton — who at this point appears to have only token opposition in her bid for her party’s nomination — as entitled and presumptuous, and poked fun about the rough spots she has hit as she rolled out her campaign with a swing through Iowa. There were, for instance, many references to Chipotle, where Clinton stopped for lunch in Ohio and failed to leave a tip (though that is not unusual in a fast-food chain).
“I could have sworn I saw Hillary’s Scooby-Doo van outside,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said, referring to the nickname for the black vehicle Clinton traveled in. He quickly added that it couldn’t have been, because foreign leaders were not paying for the gathering — a jab at the controversies that have surrounded the financing of the Clinton family’s foundation.
An entirely new political genre -Joe Scarborough Jokes:
Scarborough approached the stage to noticeably tepid applause (though, to be fair, this was the first event of the day), and immediately tried to land a Hillary Clinton zinger: “We had Hillary announce on Sunday, though, I have to say, I think it’s interesting she decided to announce to the world she was running by e-mail. I don’t know I would have that if I were Hillary. Think about it. Why would you do that? It’s like Alex Rodriguez deciding that he would pass out business cards shaped like a syringe. You can do it, but why? I’m sorry, I’ll never get along with Yankees.” [Sports! Always a crowd-pleaser!]
On Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio: “This is Florida versus Florida, right? For us from Florida, this will be more intense than FSU versus Florida. Jeb Bush tearing up five years ago when introducing Marco Rubio, saying, ‘I love him so much it makes me want to cry.’ This week, [MSNBC reporter] Kasie Hunt interviewed Jeb in New Hampshire and said, ‘What do you think about Marco?’ He said, ‘I love Marco,’ and then he went off to cry.’ Jeb will be fine, believe me, but what a race.”
CNN describes it as a flood.