You make some good points that I concede there. I know the Dems have an uphill battle this year. As you state, they have more up for grabs than we do this time around.
Ideally we need a veto-proof majority. I’d hate to wind up with 59 seats, and Ted Cruz having lost. I’d be surprised if it came that close, but who knows.
Academically, I agree with your logic. We do have to send some of our guys packing at times. If it can be done at a time when we can be reasonably certain of the outcome, I would sign on. It would have to be pretty clear
I also agree that Cruz has a lot more problems than some folks like to admit. He’s just plain shifty.
While he did make very token support for Trump, he did nothing of the sort he claimed here. He is also not in charge of judicial nominations. His legalize tainted comment made it seem he was claiming that.
He’s just not a straight shooter. I’ve caught him in a number of lies, 8 to 10. I’ve also found other instances where he doesn’t come right out and lie, but he words things to they give false impressions, so he can deny he claimed something that his words would none the less cause someone to think he had said.
“I’ve also found other instances where he doesn’t come right out and lie, but he words things to they give false impressions, so he can deny he claimed something that his words would none the less cause someone to think he had said.”
That’s his predominant mode of operation.
Shifty and sleazy.
For instance, he never said, not once, that he was a dual citizen of the US and Canada, or that he was not.
He just didn’t mention that he was a dual citizen when he ran for the Senate the first time out. Then, after he was found out and challenged, he said “I didn’t KNOW”.
That alone, without any other of his sh!t, disqualifies him from further office IMHO.
I coulod go on a rant about TPP but most folks know that story too.
Except, it seems, NorthMountain.