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The gratuitous attacks on Cruz are not helpful.

Is there anyone who believes bribes were offered and there was not a single Trump delegate who recorded the offer? Not once? No, it wasn’t bribes. By tradition, delegates are courted with meetings. The meetings may be over an elegant dinner or even in a nice resort, but they do not include bribes - specifically to avoid the scandal that would follow being rejected and then outed. I’ve recommended that Trump do that to court delegates, both to keep his own delegates loyal and to attract uncommitted delegates.

Who benefits from the Trump-Cruz wars, of which this post is a part? Hillary, Bernie, Jeb, Rubio, Kasich, and others who consistently support Amnesty, who consistently support Obamacare, and who consistently support restrictions on our individual, God-given right to keep and bear arms. Decent Americans are better off with a real truce, and not just a “I’ll stop when every person who even pretends to support the other side stops” gesture toward a truce that will never happen.

The “Slick Teddy” and “Whining Trump” nonsense is not helping us to elect the best possible conservative in November. I want 99% or more of Cruz supporters to vote Trump, when he is nominated, even if they hold their noses. In the event that Cruz wins the nomination, I want 99% or more of Trump supporters to vote Cruz, even if they hold their noses. Offending the other side does not encourage them to vote Trump (or Cruz) in November. I cannot help wondering how many of those who stir up the Trump-Cruz wars are actually paid trolls taking Jeb/Hillary/Soros money to cause trouble - not all of them but probably enough to set the toxic tone.

I stand by my recurring statement:

Cruz and Trump are both imperfect but they agree far more than 80% of the time (see my tagline from Ronald Reagan). They should be friends and allies, and we should treat both of them as such.