Somebody suggested on another thread that the only party that gains from a really nasty whizzing match between Trump and Cruz is the GOPe.
Hmm.
The only people suggesting that are desperate Cruz supporters.
I think the problem now is that this story, which looks to have legs and perhaps 10 legs, ends the chance for a brokered, barring some other massive scandal that takes out Trump or somehow allows them to kick him out of the party..
It all hinges on whether the allegations are true, and they appear to be sticking at least in part. Only 20% is required.
As a Trump supporter, and since it seems like everyone in the know knew about this, it wouldn't surprise me if Trump asked Pecker to publish earlier rather than later. The inclusion of Pierson could be voluntary on her part to add extra chapters to the story.
This has to be a really bad to be someone who trusted Ted. I have no sympathy for the name calling fools, but for those who simply quietly made the choice that they could trust him, this is very likely to be an extremely harsh lesson in the nature of mankind, and how to read instincts.
And, I could be totally wrong, but the instincts I had about Cruz - and many had the same thing - were utterly without evidence when I first felt them, and yet the evidence has poured in left and right to confirm all of them.
We make fun of democrats, and rightfully so, for only listening to their feelings. But instincts are not the same as feelings. You arrive at policy via thinking, but you arrive at choice and action by instinct. Which is just another reason why, even if Cruz were not compromised in character ... he would fail as a president ... he's a man of the mind only, not a man of the physical world - he's unbalanced this way. Instinct is not his thing. Nor, it appears, is it with his supporters. Or not. We'll see.
Look to Mitch McConnell and the fact that Ted did not apologize. Taking beats?