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Ted Cruz is as crooked as a country road.

P.S. to my last, Aquamarine:

Just to be crystal clear: I want you to know that I started out as an enthusiastic supporter of Ted Cruz, as any review of my past posts would make plain.

But I was totally shocked, stunned by the shenanigans perpetrated against Ben Carson in Iowa by the Cruz campaign, and a number of like incidents subsequent to that.

Cruz claimed he knew nothing about these things -- plausible deniability at work. Then he finally apologized to Dr. Carson (while still maintaining he "knew nothing" about the incident -- Sgt. Schultz at his best); but the damage had already been done. It may be he eked out his narrow victory in the caucus because of the manifest falsehood, advanced by his campaign, that Dr. Carson had withdrawn from the race.

To me, incidents like this are nothing but dirty tricks; and only a crooked man, a dishonest man, would perpetrate them, or be a party to them, or a beneficiary of them.

Such a man is not fit to be President of the United States. Period.

Subsequently, I have found a fit description for Senator Cruz: He is a SOPHIST.

Sophist, noun:
a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in ancient Greece, associated in popular thought with moral skepticism and specious reasoning; a person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments.

IMHO, this definition fits Ted Cruz to a tee; and I am simply disgusted with him.

He reminds me of the character Callicles (a vicious, conniving, ambitious man), in Plato's dialogue, The Gorgias. Callicles' argued that "might = right." He was the champion of moral relativism. In the dialogue, Socrates destroys this argument, and makes Callicles look like the FOOL he is.

So Callicles, out of revenge and sheer spite, colludes with a couple of buddies, and gets Socrates charged on a baseless allegation of "corrupting the youth of Athens," a crime for which Socrates was convicted and for which he received the death penalty....

The trial of Socrates is the story told in Plato's Apology....

I don't much care for Callicles -- nor Ted Cruz, who seems to resemble him to my mind.

Aquamarine, as Heraclitus said, "Character is destiny." I daresay Cruz is a man of bad character....

JMHO FWIW