Cruz will certainly resist folding longer than most. He’s very brazen. He came right out on FOX yesterday and stated that Roger Stone is currently employed by Trump, and that he, Cruz, publicly condemned the Melania ad the instant he saw it/became aware of it.
Two big, bald faced lies to add to all his others. He’s certainly getting more reckless.
From my POV, there are two very disparate groups of people watching this unfold. First, true believers who are convinced that Cruz is the personification of integrity. Second, people with considerable experience with Cruz’ personality type.
What type, you no doubt demand.
And I can assuredly answer. I refer to the type of person raised by a grandiose alcoholic, who from an early age has been told that he is special and unique.
Cruz’ father has saddled his son not only with the handicap all children raised in an alcoholic environment carry into adulthood; he’s also convinced Ted he is an anointed king—if not the anointed king.
The end result is a narcissistic Adult Child who lies, rewrites history, indulges himself to excess, and is eventually destroyed by his addictive dysfunctional behavior.
I know you believe none of that. You can’t; it’s too disruptive to your current world view. That’s a given.
But just bear it in mind. The day will come when it will all make sense, God willing you should live that long. [Or it may not take that long; time will tell.]
A perfect example of Cruz’s laxity with truth happened on Fox News yesterday in an interview. As anyone who has listened to Trump knows, Trump came out for realigning our relationship with NATO in terms of a more equitable sharing of finances and troop commitments. It’s what Trump said. I heard him myself.
Cruz presents that casually as Trump says that we should end our relationship with NATO.
He does this misrepresentation thing so often on just about every issue that I find it almost impossible to listen to him anymore.
At some point, repeated misrepresentation is the same as bald-faced lying.
If Stone is not drawing a paycheck , he ought to be. He's certainly doing a yeoman's job carrying water for Trump. It's pretty hard for me to accept that Stone would be shopping libel unless he was being paid pretty well for it. That's not something one does just for entertainment.
...and that he, Cruz, publicly condemned the Melania ad the instant he saw it/became aware of it.
Yes, I saw Cruz's condemnation myself with my own eyes, and it was a very strong condemnation at that.
By the way, I know that the Melania 'ad' meme is already out there and taken root, but isn't it a stretch to call a Facebook post an 'ad'?