Here’s a story about Trump’s remarks about Cruz’s father. Plus I remember hearing him say it (and saw the Oswald/Cruz postings here at FR long before).
Here are his comments about ‘spilling the beans’ on Cruz’s wife:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/politics/ted-cruz-melania-trump-twitter-donald-trump-heidi/
I don’t think either one is particularly nasty or even an attack. Hell, a SuperPAC related to the Cruz campaign released the Melania Trump pic that baited Trump. Before then, the two had not really attacked each other.
Cruz is persona non grata now. I’m with Rush in thinking it is far too early to discount his entire political future, but he certainly did it no favors. Politics is a tough sport. Sanctimony and hurt feelings don’t play well.
ya don’t drag families into it unless it’s the klintons.
Let me see if I get this straight. One year of effort, and over $150 million spent, and at the end, Ted Cruz went from ‘not a team player’ and ‘unloved by party elites’ to, what, ‘not a team player’ and ‘unloved by party elites’?
Strange, typically we’d say how much a politician changed from what they were before as they campaigned for votes. Ted Cruz was the real deal, he stayed true to who he is, even up to the changed convention speech. I can disagree with someone and still respect them sticking to their guns.
The point being, Trump never actually said anything derogatory about Heidi and never said Cruz’s father was involved in the JFK assassination. That was all Cruz’s excuse for his dishonorable behavior and people assume that Trump must have actually really insulted Heidi or Cruz’s father - because Ted says so.