I didn't say Ted Cruz did himself any good. I'm just saying that he wasn't looking to provoke a fight but to win the guy over.
A dumb idea, admittedly. No point trying to reason with jerks -- which the guy definitely was.
But if one believes there's a place for rational argument and intelligent discussion in politics one might give Ted his due.
I'm saying this as somebody who doesn't much like the guy.
That guy wasn't a jerk! Quite the opposite. I realize no one remembers Froggie the Gremlin from the old Andy Devine Show in which that nasty little toy interrupted pompous types with non-sequetars and sent self-important talking points quickly into the toilet. That's exactly what this Joe the Plumber type did - and completely flummoxed the humorless and deeply earnest Cruz into an early political grave.