In winning the battle, Cruz may have lost the war.
I guess his calculation was he absolutely had to win Iowa by any means necessary to have a chance going forward, so he took the risks of sleazing it up.
A shame, really, IMO. I think Cruz really does have something to offer, if only as a strong candidate to influence toward policies of less government and things like a low flat tax. Then he mucks it up with this crap. Stupid, self-destructive, and destructive to what we’re all looking for.
Trump is like a laser beam sometimes to me and he doesn’t care what people say about him and so often when it’s all said an done, it turns out Trump was right and it was a meaningful issue he was dealing with.
Neither Trump nor Obama seem to care what people think of them. Obama’s disinterest in popularity has served him well these last seven years, howbeit to “fundamentally change America” into a socialist state. Trump’s basic fearless attitude can also serve him well to do just the opposite: make America great again.
These are fascinating times.