You’re really digging deep to justify this, sad.
Cruz effed up, you’re not even honest enough to admit it.
I’ll vote for him, but he messed up big time.
“Messed up big-time” is an overstatement at this point. The research seems to show that, yes, some people are offended by the mailers, but it appears to work on some people. I don’t know who, maybe someone who believes in voting but gets too distracted to remember to do it. I definitely think that a shocking “voter violation” envelope is going to get opened more likely than a plain political envelope, so that’s one reason it might work. It can get people’s attention who might be distracted. I would think the person it works on would be someone who would laugh at how dramatic it looked but then realize they do feel a little guilty about not voting.