What cost Cruz was that he didn't come out of the gate with a "Kill the mother****ers!" donald trump attitude which would have alienated his own supporters, and been splattered against him by the same media who distorted what he did say.
What he did say wasn't aggressive enough for you howlers, so you twisted it to say it was somehow support for the actions Cruz decried in more gentle terms, and splattered the distortions all over the media.
Nice job, Mr. Alinsky, your dedicant would be proud.
In other words, nothing Cruz did or said would not have been used against him.
These LIBERAL tactics piss me off. They are transparent, and if used against the guy you support would be decried from the rooftops, but against someone else, they are just fine with you.
Which exposes the desire by Trump people to embrace situational ethics.
You are unprincipled, you just want to "win" regardless of whether or not that involves screwing any people over. You are the type who would try to eminent domain an old lady's house to put in the parking lot YOU want.
There is the real ROT.
You are no better than the GOPe you decry, you are just on the outside wanting in.
You all have exposed yourselves, and typically, it ain't pretty.
A lot of Cruz supporters, then, were howlers as well.
You keep trying to act like it was only Trump supporters that blasted Ted Cruz for his weak statement, but that is false.
Ted Cruz got pilloried by his own supporters, in many cases. Dozens of them on this very forum switched to Donald Trump as a result, and that pattern was replicated elsewhere.
These were voters who did nothing more than read and hear Ted Cruz's statement for themselves, and formed their own opinion accordingly.
So, to reiterate, the "howlers" you decry, those who "twisted" Ted Cruz's words, included many of his own (former) supporters.
Cruz's wounds were self-inflicted, not caused by "howlers" and their ilk...