The media uses “selective enforcement” even more than the Obama administration. Anyone who doesn’t take that into account in this race is fooling themselves. With Obama’s citizenship issues the media acted like they couldn’t understand the significance of the legal arguments; they acted like significant discoveries that were proof of forgery were “digital artifacts”; all the way down the line everything was laughed off. Ted is not going to get the same type of treatment.
This is just the first example that comes to mind. There is a good chance that Cruz will face ongoing legal scrutiny over just the stuff from the Iowa caucus... the Carson stuff and the voter “violation” mailers. Idiots are going to come forward claiming that they were misled and this will bog down the Cruz campaign.
The team of experts Cruz put together thinks that they know how far they can push things and still get away with it. Ted is a lawyer and thinks he knows as well. I am not convinced that they can get away with anything at all in this contest. I think that Ted’s only real choice is to go 100% above board in the coming months. He is going to need an overwhelming force of boots on the ground everywhere and I am not convinced that outside of Iowa and a couple other strongholds that he has this.
Even then he is still going to get hammered. They are going to be everywhere looking for skeletons in the closet. They will find some handicapped gal or minority who went to the 3rd grade with Ted and will claim he verbally assaulted her. Teams of experts will be discussing this on every network and in every forum. Are verbal bullies ever really cured? Are verbal bullies worse than physical bullies? It is definitely not fair but it is the slanted table this game is played on. At some level even Cruz’s most committed followers know this.
OTOH...they ALWAYS go after the GOPers. We've already seen them pile on many of our candidates; just not ALL of them. Ted isn't used to this and he doesn't appear to be able to handle it. We'll just have to see what will happen, but yes, some of what you posted will probably come to pass....soon.