The Cruz campaign is one tearful admission away from one of the biggest political flame outs in history. As soon as this becomes a he said, she said situation it is all over.
Except that the story told by the political operative is that the Cruz camp planted the story as an “anchor.”
An anchor sets the bar so the brain judges everything else from that bar. Example, buying a car. You have $45,000 to spend, and you ask the salesman, “How much is that car?” Salesman says, “$65,000.” That’s the anchor. You cringe. The salesman says, “If I can get it down to $50,000, will you drive it home today?” Now you think you just saved $15,000, so you’re excited, and you buy the car.
The National Enquirer story proposed 5 women, sex in closets, hookers, etc. That’s the anchor.
Now if we find out it was “just one affair, and it happened 6 years ago, and Heidi knows about it, and they have made peace with it....” Then it doesn’t seem so bad to us, and we forgive and move on. After all, poor innocent Heidi has been the poor victim throughout the whole Melania / Heidi tweet war. So hasn’t poor innocent Heidi been hurt enough (by TRUMP) already? So if Heidi has forgiven Ted, can’t WE forgive Ted, so that Heidi can be spared the pain all over again?