[The Iceman Cometh]

Cruz and his campaign staff did nothing unethical, illegal or even immoral in Iowa and all of the contrived indignation to the contrary does not make it so.

Yep....Cruz apologized for doing nothing wrong. Makes sense.

[nathanbedford]

It is quite clear why Ted Cruz "apologized" not for any deception committed by Ted Cruz himself but for a "mistake" done by his staff. That "mistake" consisted of a failure to send out a follow-up statement from the Carson campaign that he was indeed staying in the race. Yet CNN was broadcasting no such thing only tweeting and it is not clear the state of knowledge or the breath of knowledge in the Cruz campaign as a result of CNN's subsequent tweets which did not comply with what it was broadcasting.

Here is the apology, which does not use the word because it was not warranted:

"Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story," Cruz said in a statement first shared with CNN. "That's fair game. What the team then should have done was send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out."

The original Cruz campaign statement was perfectly true:

"Breaking News. The press is reporting that Dr. Ben Carson is taking time off from the campaign trail after Iowa and making a big announcement next week," the email read. "Please inform any Carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted Cruz." Perfectly true, perfectly fair, perfectly moral, perfectly Christian.

What is not true, not fair, immoral is Donald Trump's assertion of lies on the part of Ted Cruz personally or even on the part of the Ted Cruz campaign.