“But in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top,” Mr. Cruz continued. “And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discourse.”
He shouldn’t have gone there. But is he wrong in this statement?
” But is he wrong in this statement?”
Dreadfully so.
Ted Cruz, the POS that he is, has been kissing lesbian Rachel Maddow’s *** too much.
No, of course not. Trump himself has said that he would like to punch protesters in the face. He’s taunted that he would pay the legal bills of his supporters who got into trouble being physical at his rallies. His words are less than diplomatic. The narrative from the first day of Trump’s campaign has been about “anger,” as if that’s something we should support (because good decisions are always made in anger).
Of course Trump is responsible for creating this environment. It doesn’t happen elsewhere. I’m sure protesters are at Cruz rallies, but he doesn’t have the mouth-breathing low-information supporters that would resort to violence.
This site, as you may know, is long dead. Conservatism is not welcome here, as the primary support is for an authoritarian “government is the solution” guy with zero experience. Obama 2, except Obama doesn’t look like a space cadet who wants to bang his daughter.
Ted Cruz, the POS that he is, has an ear up the @@@ of lesbian Rachel Maddow.
Objectively, yes.
"A campaign that disrespects the voters?" He's entitled to his opinion, but it's no more than that.
"Affirmatively encourages violence?" No, encourages responding to it...never initiating it.
"Allegations of physical violence against members of the press?" It appears they were empty allegations made for political effect.
That whole statement was a nothing burger made for political gain. I expected better from Cruz.