simple as ABC

To a concerned and angry bunch of Iowa Republicans, their mission heading into next month’s caucuses is as simple as ABC: Anybody But Cruz.

“The message from New Jersey voters seems to be as simple as ABC – anybody but Christie,” Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute said.

Which may start off as simple as ABC but then gets way more complicated.

Except the Huskies have rewritten the ending so it makes winners of the side for which the rest of the nation has adopted a mantra as simple as ABC.

I could still sit batsmen on their backsides, but my greatest asset was that I got closer to the stumps to bowl and I had better control of swing and seam – it was easier to test the batmen because my channels and lines were as simple as ABC – straight lines from the top of the run to the crease, deliver the ball to the other end to hit the top of off-stump or thereabouts with a margin of error.