Ted Cruz's behaviour during the entire course of this primary season, and him teaming up with the GOPe, has perfecetly epitomized unprincipled, Machiavellian tactics.
Ted Cruz has been magnitudes more Machiavellian than Donald Trump has. The GOPe and Cruz campaign long ago ceded the moral high ground to Donal Trump.
Cruz played the race card against Trump, knowing full well that it was a blatant smear, and totally false.
Then, after the cancellation of Trump's Chicago rally by organized Leftist criminality, Ted Cruz gave only lip service rebuke to the thugs, and, instead of showing solidarity with the frontrunner, or even his own party, Cruz proceeded to go on a ridiculous diatribe against Trump, even throwing in the "Trump campaign attacks reporters" smear that, of course, turned out to be a total hoax.
Then, of course, there was Cruz trying to blame Donald Trump for the National Enquirer story, which was totally false, and which was being shopped by the Rubio campaign weeks before. Indeed, the Rubio campaign went back and deleted Tweets in a futile effort to cover their tracks.
To reiterate, it is, by far, Ted Cruz and the GOPe who have employed Machiavellian tactics during this primary season.
Donald Trump has employed various tactics, some of them needlessly lowbrow, but his campaign has most definitely not used the same type of amoral tactics as Cruz has. Cruz, after jumping in bed with the GOPe, has taken the term "Machiavellian" to new heights.
One must be viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses to not see the naked, unprincipled opportunism which Ted Cruz has engaged in repeatedly.
Apparently, Ted Cruz plans on limping into the GOP convention with, at best, about 700 delegates or so.
And then what's he going to do somehow, magically? He's going to seize the nomination from Donald Trump, displacing the party's clear frontrunner.
Then what? This is the most ridiculous part: after swiping the nomination, he will:
It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.
Ted Cruz appears willing to sacrifice not only the party, but even the entire country, on the altar of his own blind personal ambition and egotism. God forbid!
Vote Trump
Donald Trump has employed various tactics, some of them needlessly lowbrow
I'm not finding much to disagree about with your response post...
Cruz certainly has disappointed me on several levels...
The point I was making, which you seemed to miss was the lowbrow antics Trump used in his campaign rhetoric was picked up here at FR and used against decent people who simply supported Cruz because he was a conservative candidate, or either did not like Trump as a candidate or didn't think he had the temperament to be POTUS...
As soon as Trump amped up his rhetoric by making extremely personal attacks against Rubio and Cruz, verses attacking their policy or political position...(which is much harder to do)
Trump followers followed suit and got very ugly...
How can anyone justify the use of the term "Cruzlim" in describing Cruz supporters...
So being a Cruz supporter is akin to aligning yourself with the evil of Islam... ?
Really?