My wife is actually drewsmom who registered, but either never posted or posted before the FR data was lost. I have no association with DrewsMum other than some FR poster once alerting me on a Hurricane Ike thread that she was pregnant.
As far as your post condemning Cruz, I guess we'll have to disagree as you said. It's not his obligation to apologize for Trump. If you want him to call out the leftists protesters, he did on Sunday's Meet the Press:
Well, let's be clear. Listen, the protesters have no right to engage in violence. They have no right to threaten violence. And these protesters, whether it's Black Lives Matter or Bernie Sanders protesters who are coming in just trying to shout down any speaker, that's not free speech. The First Amendment gives you a right to speak, but it doesn't give you a right to silence others. So the protesters are behaving abusively and wrong. But, at the end of the day in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top. And it is not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump telling his supporters, "Punch that guy in the face."
Time you became able to translate Harvard lawyer speak. It means “the violent protests are Trump’s fault”. That’s the message Felito is sending. The SS Cruz is slipping below the waves and he is desperately bailing water. In a few weeks Luz will be back in the Senate reading Green Eggs and Ham and voting for TPP.
I'll just add that I don't like Cruz condemning the protesters immediately followed by justifying their violence.
Trump needs to tone that s*** down. Still, Cruz doesn't need to offer justification for violence, either directly or by implication.
And I don't care how forceful or light that implication or justification is. It just didn't need to happen.
It's why Cruz lost a bunch of people here and in the wild, and even a few endorsers.