If you’re a Republican (as a Democrat, adultery is usually a resume-enhancer), this is one charge you have to defend if it is false. You hold a press conference with your wife at your side and you denounce the report and deny the accusations. If possible, you get the wife to say they are false.
A lot of women, who will never speak a word about it unless asked, will dump a politician if he’s an adulterer because, to them, that’s the most sacred vow and nothing else from that candidate is trustworthy if he isn’t true to his wife.
You can’t treat it like a money scandal or a flip flop. You have to attack it head on or admit it as true and ask for forgiveness. There are no other political options.
We disagree because of previous reasons stated.
In addition, to anti-Cruz people, even if he treated a NE accusation with a loud and direct “no,” they would not be swayed (as previously stated) and we would be where we are today, treating the NE like it is serious venue and no anti-Cruz minds would change
Can you see any anti-Cruz types on this thread changing their opinion on the subject and saying: “Well, Cruz said no so that’s it, let’s move on.”