Posted on 03/26/2016 9:26:52 AM PDT by Steelfish
Defend Heidi Cruz
by MONA CHAREN March 26, 2016
Is Trump the political genius that some have been hinting? Who else, without staff or experience, could rocket to the top of the polls and remain in that perch month after month despite everything? Maybe its genius, or maybe its shamelessness. The latter can be mistaken for the former. This weeks new slog in the mud demonstrates one of Trumps techniques to perfection he flings filth at an opponent and then invites the docile press to conclude that both sides are engaged in unseemly brawling. (This is usually John Kasichs moment to shake his head sadly and remind voters that, golly gee, he would never do such things.)
The wife spat began, as these things always do, with a Trump shiv. An independent PAC, Make America Awesome, published practically nude pictures fully available in the public domain of Melania Trump from a GQ photo shoot from the early 2000s, and invited viewers to consider whether someone who posed for such pictures would make an appropriate first lady. Trump then grabbed this small ad as excuse to hurl accusations at one of his opponents (wonder why he didnt accuse Kasich?), tweeting that he believed Cruz to be responsible for the ad and threatening to spill the beans about Heidi Cruz if Cruz werent careful.
Cruz had nothing to do the the Make America Awesome ad. But before getting to the rest of the imbroglio, and at the risk of seeming utterly Victorian in this sorry time, it seems to me that Melanias history as a nude model is not completely out of bounds as an election issue for voters. In an era when Paris Hilton becomes a household name for being featured in a sex tape,..... (READ ON)
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Who is “we”?
I recall endless demands for sympathy for the wife of John Edwards while the story was breaking. Only to find out that she was into the cover up as much as he was. Foisting her crooked lying slime husband onto the Presidency for her own personal gain. If she hadn’t died of cancer should would be remembered as a part of the conspiracy, not a victim.
So, the jury is still out on Heidi.
You are sincerely asking me for the definition of sense?
Google doesn’t work for you?
Heidi Cruz stood up there and said she and Ted were campaigning for the Presidency. She needs to be ready for people looking at her background and position statements. They are going to reflect much more poorly on her than an unposed picture next to a beautiful woman. Anyone with any sense know just how much weight to place on a picture retweet flattering or not and trying to gin up symapthy to attack Trump is only going to cut it with partisans or airheads.
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