I said yesterday, if had been a long planned vacation, then you owe it to your family to not cancel. At least not them. But you just don’t abandon your constituents to a natural disaster and sip umbrella drinks at the last minute, because you can.
If you do, then have the brass ones to stand up for your decision.
Exactly what is Ted Cruz supposed to do when electric power goes down in some places in Texas?
Is he the one in charge of electric power in Texas?
“I said yesterday, if had been a long planned vacation, then you owe it to your family to not cancel. At least not them.”
Actually, long-planned or not, he did owe it to his family to CANCEL.
He chose to be a HIGH-PROFILE public figure, no one forced him. He’s a lawyer, he had plenty of options short of being a US Senator. If you want to be in that position, you become a public person - you ‘private life’ will be compromised, and you literally have ZERO control over that fact, particularly if you’re a Republican.
In this case, the reason that he owed it to his family to cancel is that THEY have to live with the fallout of what he did - don’t think his kids will get a free pass on this at school, or his high-roller wife either.
He should have explained to them that a person of his profile DOES NOT leave his voters behind in a time of need, and if he did go with them, they (along with him) would pay a huge price...which has already started, with the protest at his home yesterday. His kids had it tough to begin with this year, with the Dems calling him a killer when he tried to be jocular and now calling for his prosecution. He wasn’t doing them any favors by going to Cancun with them, not this week at least.