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Originally Posted by jms62
Agree with everything you say here especially regarding Cruz.. Having said that I want to be devils advocate here. If you were in Cruz's position having signed a pledge but Donald severely insulted your wife and father. Knowing that knocking him out is not an option what would you do. Me personally would decline to speak. I wouldn't endorse him but would not show up the party like that. Sort of like Kasich did.
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I can see some of this - but to be fair, I think that the media has a way of hyper-inflating virtually everything he says or does.
Case in point - I don't necessarily buy the notion that Trump severely insulted his wife. It was a political counterpunch that the media, led in part by Megyn Kelly, refused to allow to die what should have been a relative quick death.
If you recall the entire tawdry exchange was initiated by Ted Cruz when Cruz or, according to his Super PAC (without his knowledge of course, *wink, wink*) decided to place billboards all over Salt Lake City in advance of the Utah primary of an old modeling photo of Melania in a provocative pose:
Trump's response was to retweet a tweet from a supporter which made the case that "Heidi ain't exactly Melania".
That was it. Was it presidential? No. Borderline misogynistic? Perhaps. But really, at the end of the day, wasn't it really much ado about nothing, if we're being honest? He (or a staffer) retweeted a stupid tweet. That's it.
It was the likes of the #NeverTrump pitbulls, - SE Cupp, Amanda Carpenter, Megyn Kelly, Mika Brzezinski, et al. that refused to let this die a natural, quick death and beat the drum ad nauseum.
When it is all boiled down, it may have been construed as any number of things, but an *Attack on Heidi* is not one of them, in my mind's eye.
As for his father - the fact that he was a communist soldier with direct ties to Fidel Castro, for whatever reason, was and still is completely glossed over by the MSM (I can only imagine why
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Whether that was him in that grainy old photo or not, will never be known. Cruz (regardless if true) will deny it to his grave, as will his father.
Rafael Cruz has every right to sue the Enquirer for defamation of character and had purportedly expressed an interest in doing so , yet....crickets... Draw your own conclusion.
In all reality, Trump causally "putting it out there" was pure politics, and something Cruz would have done in a heartbeat should the shoe had been on the other foot.
So, I realize it's a long way to go to say I disagree with the notion that any of the 16 that signed a pledge to support Trump (Especially Kasich) should get a pass. If you cannot be trusted at your word, then why should anyone believe anything you might say in the future?