Cruz and Kasitch were "with the thugs" to the degree that they failed to show any real solidarity with a GOP frontrunner who, along with his supporters, had just had their Right to Peaceable Assembly criminally infringed upon by an organized group of Leftist thugs.
Many of the people who criticized Ted Cruz were his own supporters. That's a fact. So they are guilty of slander too, I guess. Ted Cruz was blasted for showing naked opportunism, lack of proper emphasis, and failure to show leadership. He lost 300,000 Twitter followers literally overnight as a result of his yuuuuge mistake.
He and the other 2 stooges gave only "lip service" to rebuking the lawbreakers, and then proceeded to negate it by devoting several times as much time and space in their statements to taking political cheap shots at Donald Trump.
And that was a factor in why Ted Cruz didn't win a single state yesterday.
Eventually those same thugs might show up at a Ted Cruz rally. Whose fault will it be when that happens? Will it be Cruz's fault because of his violent rhetoric? Of course not.
The ironic thing is, if Ted Cruz really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the rally violence, he could have shown statesmanship by expressing solidarity with the frontrunner, combined with fiercely and emphatically repudiating the lawbreakers.
The opportunist missed a big opportunity, and perfectly misread the situation.
Anyone who doesn't think it cost Cruz yesterday is delusional, IMHO.
What cost Cruz was that he didn't come out of the gate with a "Kill the mother****ers!" donald trump attitude which would have alienated his own supporters, and been splattered against him by the same media who distorted what he did say.
What he did say wasn't aggressive enough for you howlers, so you twisted it to say it was somehow support for the actions Cruz decried in more gentle terms, and splattered the distortions all over the media.
Nice job, Mr. Alinsky, your dedicant would be proud.
In other words, nothing Cruz did or said would not have been used against him.
These LIBERAL tactics piss me off. They are transparent, and if used against the guy you support would be decried from the rooftops, but against someone else, they are just fine with you.
Which exposes the desire by Trump people to embrace situational ethics.
You are unprincipled, you just want to "win" regardless of whether or not that involves screwing any people over. You are the type who would try to eminent domain an old lady's house to put in the parking lot YOU want.
There is the real ROT.
You are no better than the GOPe you decry, you are just on the outside wanting in.
You all have exposed yourselves, and typically, it ain't pretty.