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I sometimes say ‘context is everything.’

Is there an objective standard for “context”? Well, a sentence fragment is too short. A sentence is better. A paragraph is better yet. Add the preceding and following paragraph, and you will have the statement and adequate context most, say 80% or 90%, of the time.

Here’s all I could find (from Trump) at the link:

“I think the establishment actually is against me but really coming on line because they see me as opposed to Cruz, who is a nasty guy who can’t get along with anybody,” Trump said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday.

“Look, at a certain point, we got to make deals,” Trump continued. “We can’t have a guy who stands in the middle of the Senate floor and every other senator thinks he’s a whack job. You have to make deals, you have to get along, that’s the purpose of what our founders created, and Ted cannot get along with anybody. He’s a nasty person.”

I don’t believe this slander against Ted Cruz.

I am aghast that a Presidential candidate would talk this way. Donald Trump sounds like Glenn Beck.

Now to the substance. Is it easy for a McCain or a Trump to reach across the aisle to get a deal? Pretty easy, all you have to do is beat-up on Republicans. CNN and the rest of the press will help. Does Obama reach across the aisle to make a deal with conservatives? Does he compromise? No.

A conservative President would be good for America. Ted Cruz is conservative. That means deals when it is good for the US, and no deal, when the only deal available is bad. Remember all the attacks on Reagan for not trading away SDI to the Soviets? He refused that deal, and the Soviet Union is history.