No, I could care less in some respects that this is happening to Cruz. I understand why you would misread me on this. I haven’t been clear. I wouldn’t be any less disturbed if Trump was launching an “irrational fear campaign” on Lindsey Graham. It’s a bad thing to do to anybody, and it makes it harder for me than it already is to support Trump. It confirms my impression of him as insecure and morally rudderless, because he is willing to use ends-justify-the-means rationalizations, like he did in Kelo. I don’t want a conservative version of Obama in the WH. I really don’t. I want someone who has moral limits, who recognizes when he’s doing something wrong, even if that wrong deed might help him get elected.
By analogy, let’s say you wanted a promotion at work. Your nearest competitor has been getting rave reviews on their work lately, so you start to spread rumors that that they are going to start having legal troubles that will keep them from performing their job. The only problem is, you happen to know their “legal troubles” are not going to impact them seriously at all. Would you still spread those rumors? Anything to win? Really? Is that the guy you want in the WH?
But yes, I agree, Cruz can take it, and you and I can take it, and hopefully remain civil in the process. As a Christian, that is something I aspire to. But as a Christian, I also reject as evil the setting aside of ethical behavior, even when done in quest of some supposedly worthy goal. The ends do NOT justify the means. God justifies both the ends and the means.
So that’s what I’m really getting at. Sorry if you misunderstood. I think Ted will come out of this just fine, in part because this event does such a great job of exposing Trump for who he really is. And of course I will defend Cruz vocally. Why would you expect me or anybody to sit silent whilst he is maligned? Trumpsters don’t sit quietly on their thumbs. We don’t either. I don’t get why that surprises people. It’s politics in America. We argue to the bitter end for our guy, and then we unite against the real enemy. So?
Peace,
SR