Let’s assume you are right. Sadly, e.d. is an issue that few will vote on. There is little to gain from lying. Mistakes happen. But, in any case, no way am I going to vote for a guy who enables Hillary, Kerry, Schumer, Reid and Pelosi. And, let’s all hear what Trump secretly told the NYT!
This mania—yes, I’ll call it that—to excuse Cruz runs counter to the very basis of his support. He’s supposed to be intellectually brilliant and a consistent conservative, correct?
Well if he’s brilliant, why did he approve an ad with such a glaring lie? How could he not know the basic facts about the Coking case, which is the only eminent domain case Trump has had anything to do with? Cruz must know Atlantic City lost the case and Coking kept her house. Trump made bupkis.
How then is approving a wholesale lie conservative? Aren’t conservatives supposed to have some morals and ethics? How about Christians? Does the Golden Rule mean, ‘Approve a malicious lie against your political opponent’?
There are similar cases, but I know if I mention any of them the niggling could potentially go on forever. I’ll just say, for example, that if Trump had hired Bush’s entire financial team plus Neil Bush, it would be considered bad. When Cruz does it, it’s fine. So now ‘consistent conservative’ morphs into ‘someone closely aligned with Jeb and the Bush clan.’
I can, believe me, understand people saying they don’t like Trump OR Cruz. But after all that Cruz has revealed about himself, I cannot understand the unrelenting defense of him. Even if I couldn’t countenance Trump, I could not do the mental gymnastics required to justify Cruz.