This is just a continuing full-fledged attack against Ted Cruz and the good news is the attackers are not winning. The grassroots is still wild about Ted Cruz and he is building critical momentum. And the grassroots are fully awake on the importance and confusion of TPA and the trade deals. But Ted Cruz is able to win them over by articulating and clarifying to everyone’s satisfaction just what the real deal is. No one can do this better than Ted Cruz. I have never seen anyone do it better than he.
But in the heat of these discussions the attackers will mix up things and distort the narrative and we can fall prey to it.
The way I think is always context-context-context. And then I make judgments as to how important it will be to ferret out the true underlying context and engage it.
Soon the anti-Cruz army will be dispersed because there is a feedback they don’t expect. Ted’s communication ability is on par with that of Reagan’s. And his communication team will adapt and fight back as they’ve been doing. FR has always been a front line for liberals and disrupters to ‘test’ their latest ideas.
In their minds what they need is Ted apologizing for his vote. Ted will never do that. He will explain his vote in terms of practicality and truth.
Ted apologizes for unforeseen personal slights such as his recent apology to the Biden family, after delivering a reglar speech line poking fun at Biden, mentioning his name and then saying, “You know the nice thing? You don’t need a punchline. Honestly, it works, The next party you’re at, just walk up to someone and say, ‘Vice President Joe Biden’ and just close your mouth. They will crack up laughing.”.
But he was not tuned to the context that Biden’s son had died. I can bet you his communications team got a good talking to about that.
To apologize was the gentlemanly and correct thing to do.
But on politics? I expect never to hear Ted apologize for his politics. The worst I expect to hear from him is that he is reserving judgment until he has enough facts and understands the details and their implications.