Really?
To accuse or even to insinuate complicity in the blackest crime of the 20th century is not the stuff which might be overlooked as "utterly insignificant."
To allege as Trump emphatically did that Ted Cruz committed serial adulteries is anathema to a Christian of Cruz' persuasion.
These pokes were vicious and, even as you yourself observe, calculated to elicit a response. That is diabolical. Especially since the allegation concerning Ted Cruz' father came on the eve of a primary Trump was sure to win. It was gratuitous and it was ugly.
Was it fair to lie about golden showers? Did the president elect overreact in his press conference yesterday? Do you continue to hold to your double standards?
For the record, I believe the allegations are lies and that Trump was perfectly within his rights to behave as he did in the press conference.
To allege as Trump emphatically did that Ted Cruz committed serial adulteries is anathema to a Christian of Cruz' persuasion. I requested a citation on that claim. I'm still waiting.
These pokes were vicious and, even as you yourself observe, calculated to elicit a response. That is diabolical.
Diabolical? LOL! Shrewd, obviously.
You like to point out how "sensitive" Trump is to insults, and yet in this instance Trump totally played Ted Cruz, proving that Cruz was equally as susceptible, if not moreso.
Especially since the allegation concerning Ted Cruz' father came on the eve of a primary Trump was sure to win.
Additionally, you make the above ludicrous claim. There was absolutely no certainty that Trump was going to win the Indiana primary. Indeed, if I recall correctly, in order to do so, Trump had to overcome an endorsement of Ted Cruz by Indiana's Governor. Let's see now, I can't seem to remember that governor's name? Oh yes, that's right: it was none other than Mike Pence, who is currently the Vice President-elect of the United States of America.
The only thing that was certain regarding the Indiana primary was that, if Ted Cruz didn't win, his campaign was effectively kaput.
Even so, Ted Cruz clung to the delusion that he could disrupt the RNC by contesting it, and he entered into rather incestuous arrangements with Ohio governor John Kasich, another Trump-hater.
I remember it like it was yesterday: a certain Cruz supporter claiming that Cruz would "cruise" into the convention with 7 or 8 hundred delegates, contest it, and somehow garner the nomination.
There was quite a bit of prognostication flying around in that time period. I engaged in some of it, and was fully vindicated.
But it reminded me of the fact that you, with your blind support of Ted Cruz, never withdrew your support for him, even when it became apparent that Cruz's only path to the nomination would have been via a scorched earth strategy of contesting the convention, and thereby instigating a civil war within the party which would have left it hopelessly splintered.
Instead, with his paltry delegate count, all Ted Cruz could do, thanks to extreme graciousness on Donald Trump's part, was to give a shamefully divisive convention speech at a moment when precisely the opposite was called for. In doing so, Cruz forever branded himself as a sore loser—someone who took little or no interest in uniting the party until the very last moment, when his influence meant almost nothing.
But I digress. Just taking a walk down memory lane...