I know what you state to be very true. Sad
I am very sorry for what you have been through. Almost everything about Ted that doesn't seem to be consistent with what he says adds up when you look at it through the prism of his bad childhood. I am sure that there are many men who eventually get over it, but Ted's current behavior indicates to me that he has not. He is a very nasty guy.
Whatever chance he had of becoming president has completely evaporated in the last few days. It is the same as when Marco went negative, for the first week or two people were egging him on and thought that it was working and then he tanked big time. Ted is on the precipice. He was poised to win Wisconsin on April 5, but people are now waiting with bated breath for the next issue of the National Enquirer to come out.
The National Enquirer comes out with a lot of crazy stuff, but they haven't got a political sex scandal wrong in over 30 years and maybe longer. They have perfected the art of using a scandal like this to sell hundreds of millions of issues of their little newsprint weekly for $5 a piece. Take a look at their coverage of John Edwards, Anthony Weiner, Jessie Jackson, Herman Cain, Gary Hart, etc., etc., etc... They always start with a teaser which is short on facts. Then they wait for the reaction from the hapless politician to increase interest in the story.
Ted's tirades this last week have caused just about everyone to hear about the story. The first issue in the series sells barely more than normal. Then the Enquirer releases a little more in the second issue which sells significantly more than the first. But they are not going to give it all to us, just enough to keep up the interest in the story. The third issue will sell more than the second and so on, and so on. The more squirming Ted does the more free publicity the National Enquirer will get and the more issues they will sell. They really couldn't care less about the current contest, the candidates, or the country, they just want to sell their little news print weeklies for $5 a piece. They have a very predictable pattern that has now been shown to work over and over and over again. Ted has been snared he is reacting even better than they could have hoped.
Thanks for the first line. Fortunately I spotted it very early and was not married to him. I do agree that dysfunctional childhoods create (all too often) messed up adults.
What you’ve laid out here makes perfect sense.
I’ll submit that I wish we weren’t watching this train wreck unfold. As much as I do not want Cruz to be our nominee, it’s sad to watch a family unravel.