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Cruz didn't have to attend this funeral.....no one made him go.

He chose to go and called it an 'honor' to go.

I have problems with that.

I choose to not make myself a target at FR from name callers simply because I like my heroes being consistent.

Kudos to the South Carolina Sheriff who refused to fly our American Flag half staff for Mandela .....Obama's edict.----If I remember correctly Obama wants us flying OUR FLAG for Mandela for 10 days

I couldn't wait, yesterday, to drive to a nearby military compound of retired warriors and families.....where they fly their beloved flag every single day.....and lower it to half staff when a warrior dies.

Yesterday it was flying high and free.....HOORAY FOR THEM---no kowtowing for them!

Sometimes I think I'm the last of the idealists who remember what freedom use to feel like, taste like, feel like.

I will not start compromising and making excuses for Ted Cruz....*btw I was gung-ho and rooting for him from the bandstands from day one*.....

But I didn't expect this about face (Mandela) just like I didn't expect George Bush to have his little love fest with illegals, (among other things)

....I can simply choose not to stay at FR among people who question my loyalties if I don't play the.... 'anything goes to get Cruz the Presidency'... game.

Been there....done that.

Don't need the grief.

Hon, let me suggest that Mandela is a complicated figure. There is an evil side, and there is a good side. He faced a really awful system, and sometimes good men must do evil to achieve good results.

Let us say our system continues the slide to tyranny, and a few people you know, love, and respect need to stoop to the tyrant's level to re-acquire freedom. This is a probability, at this point, not just a possibility, so it's real.

Are those men evil because of their actions? To an extent, yes. But they are also good, because of their motivations. So it goes with Mandela.

I give Cruz a pass here, because he is recognizing the good. If pressed, I am certain he would disavow the evil acts of Mandela in the same breath.

I stand by my post, the idea that he has committed some kind of unpardonable sin for attending the Mandela funeral is silly beyond words.

Mandela is not the saint the left wants us to believe, nor is he the horror some here have made him out to be. Listen to the commentary of Joel Pollack on Mark Levin's show last week if you want to get some balance.

Giving up because Bambi flies the flag at half mast for 10 days, and he and Ted Cruz went to the same funeral is incomprehensible. That's NOT being an idealist.......