Can you imagine if in 2007 some conservative had dared to call Barack Obama the "little Mr." of anything? The cries of racism would be echoing to this day.
But on his MSNBC show this evening, Chris Matthews didn't hesitate to denigrate Marco Rubio as "the little Mr. Firecracker of the bombs-away set." For good measure, Matthews claimed that "Cruz hates as well as any Republican in modern history."