Ping for comment, criticism or additional ideas.
You and I always seem to agree, or at least 99.9% of the time. But here, re: Ted Cruz, we have reached polar opposite conclusions.
I've been following this race since last summer, and had winnowed down my list of presidential preference to two names, one of which WAS Ted Cruz. But after the low-life, nasty, dirty tricks of the Iowa Caucus and the South Carolina Primary, his name is now MUD to me.
I don't care how magnificent a man's resume is, if his character S*CKS. I had thought Cruz was a brilliant constitutional scholar, worthy of my undying support. But he has been conducting himself like a junk-yard-dog shyster lawyer.
I don't judge a man by what he SAYS, but by what he DOES. And what he has been doing to Dr. Carson and Sen. Rubio reeks of "end-justifies-the-means" moral reasoning, the sort of thing we expect from acolytes of Saul Alinsky, and the very model of the moral relativism that is progressively destroying our nation from the inside out.
He seems to believe that "All is fair in love and war" -- and politics. To WIN is EVERYTHING. Nothing else matters. "Might makes right."
IMHO, he has totally disgraced himself, and I will not forgive him for it.
And then he has the gall to claim that he knew nothing about these tactics being advanced by his own campaign and his super pac. Oh really??? Shades of Inspector Renaud in Casablanca: "I'm shocked, shocked, to learn that gambling is going on in this establishment!" ["Your winnings, sir."] Were it true that he had no such knowledge, how competent could he be as a leader? Who is responsible? Who is accountable?
The man LIES.
I know Cruz had garnered a whole lot of Freeper support, and the above observations may make me as welcome as a skunk at a garden party around here. But conscience compels me to speak up.
I can show you where to look; but I cannot tell you what to see. I hope you will go and look for yourself, and drawn your own conclusions.
Thanks, joanie, for an otherwise fine essay-post.