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I would be MORTIFIED that my children would grow up, pick up a history book on this election, and see the lying and cheating and duplicity and sleaziness I'd done. I am serious---Cruz may be too young to think about that. But it WILL come back to haunt a parent, your child knowing that you'd set an example by doing something so consciously and stridently immoral, and excused it as "the end justifies the means." That will stay with them and color their opinion of their parents forever. Like it or not.

So there was nothing untoward about it, let's say. Let's say Cruz, with his devilish charm and movie star looks just SWAYED by his mere presence all these delegates to break their pledge to the candidate for whom they stood in the election booth, where the voters voted for them in good faith----STILL:

The Bible makes it plain that we are to avoid not JUST evil but the APPEARANCE of evil or wrongdoing. No only are we not supposed to do wrong, we are commanded to make sure it does not appear that we are doing wrong.

Morally, Biblically or whatever, a Christian, a PERSON, would to out of their way to make sure that their OPPONENT got all that was due them. To avoid ALL APPEARANCE OF WRONGDOING.

My 8 year old grandson's baseball game the other night wasn't close, my grandson's team was killing them, shutting them out 10 to nothing. But the other team scored a run. The scorekeeper accidentally put the run down for my GRANDSON'S team, making it 11 to nothing, when the run should have been scored for the OTHER team, making it 9 to 1. Fifty or more parents and not one said anything, play continued. I got up and walked to the scorer (in a sort of tower overlooking the fields and controlling the electronic scoreboards,) and told the guy the mistake. He corrected it. My point? I am no hero. But I'm DAMNED if the 50 of us there, mostly parents, let OUR BOYS think we would cheat. Period. Losing a game, meh. Learning that cheating is acceptable--well you grow up like the Cruznadian.