We need to learn to have disagreements without being disagreeable. To have disagreements while respecting human beings on the other side. Earlier today over thirty people were arrested at one rally. And then tonight, as violence broke out, the rally was canceled all together. Now, the responsibility for that lies with protesters who took violence into their own hands.
Oh wait, he did. Placed 'responsibility' for the 'violence' on the 'protesters'. Then he continued:
But in any campaign responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate who is responsible for the culture of the campaign. 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.
Seems to me when Obama said '...bring a gun', people on this site wanted to hold him responsible for what he said. When a Cruz supporter/staffer repeated a CNN story, again here on FR, people talked about the 'culture' of his campaign, and wanted to hold Cruz responsible. Now many of these same people are crying foul when their candidate (not a supporter/staffer, the actual candidate) is called out the same way. (I am assuming that 'knock the crap out of' was DT saying something that Cruz thought 'encourages violence' - maybe an unfair assumption? I guess yesterday Rush called it one of DTs endearing traits...)
What is disappointing to me is that how many of these stories about Cruz have been perpetuated here on FR. I agree he has made mistakes in this campaign, but the groundswell of false accusations is hard to deal with.
I miss the way FR used to handle the truth, no matter who else stood firm...even when 'our guy' or 'our gal' said something.
What Cruz did was what he always does. He straddles the fence. He wants both sides. There is only one side that evening that was doing the wrong thing, and Cruz gave them fuel by blaming Trump.
What happened in Chicago was by no means Trump’s fault. Nothing he has ever said led to that.
Most people who know the reality of the left were not fooled.