Lott, who has endorsed Ohio Governor John Kasich, hemmed and hawed and coughed. “Uh, Rubio?” he said. Then he answered the question: “You know, to be honest with you, I’d probably pick Trump over Cruz.”
The reason, he said, was Cruz’s violation of Senate niceties. “I’ve watched him in the Senate,” said Lott, whom I was interviewing alongside fellow former Majority Leader Tom Daschle at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Lott and Daschle have co-written a new book, Crisis Point, about the problem of Washington gridlock.
“I’ve watched him stand on the floor of the Senate and call the majority leader a liar,” Lott added. “I don’t know whether he was or he wasn’t—you don’t do that where I’m from. If I’d have been in the Senate, I would have tried to have him removed from the floor of the Senate for inappropriate conduct. You just don’t do that. Are we not still gentlemen, and respectful of each other?”
And he thinks Trump would be nicer than Cruz?
This kind of nice?
“@ SenJohnMcCain should be defeated in the primaries. Graduated last in his class at Annapolis--dummy,” Trump tweeted Thursday, referring to McCain by his Twitter handle.OR
Trump responded during his speech by calling Graham an "idiot" and a "lightweight." He then held up a piece of paper and read out the senator's cell phone number to the capacity crowd of 540 people and the TV audience.
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_28517217/trump-calls-lindsey-graham-an-idiot-discloses-cellphone
Why are politicians so thin skinned that when they lie, they get so offended when somebody calls them on it.
So Cruz stands up for his principles and that is now a problem. But Trump calls people names, and is the nicer one. Our political system may never recover.
And he thinks Trump would be nicer than Cruz?
Nope. Trump will build coalitions. Cruz is clearly incapable of that.