Ditto for those that do the same to Donald Trump.
If Ted Cruz didn't do things like, for instance, playing the race card, totally disingenuously, there would be a lot fewer people "dragging his name through the mud". Playing the race card, especially when it's known to be a blatant and false smear, is the sleaziest tactic in the book. It was one of the first things Ted Cruz did that began to erode my opinion of him.
Politics is a brutal sport, as I think all candidates have realized. But there's no question that Donald Trump has drawn the lion's share of hateful attacks, from an imposing array of Establishment forces that is truly unprecedented.
Even Trump's detractors should be honest enough to concede that he has weathered the onslaught amazingly well, and that virtually anyone else subjected to something like this would have withered long ago. Donald Trump is one tough son of a gun.
Donald Trump is a successful American businessman who has lived the American Dream. He's always been known as a man of his word who is blunt to a fault at times, and politically incorrect.
During the last 14 years, he's hosted a successful television show called "The Apprentice". At no point (that I'm aware of) during this time has Donald Trump been credibly accused of being a racist, sexist, or bigot. If he had been, he would have had his show canceled or been fired from hosting it.
Now, suddenly, when Trump runs for President, the American People are supposed to believe that he's racist, sexist, a "con man", and some kind of demon from Hell, if not the Devil incarnate himself.
While Trump is far from perfect, the American People have seen the Left/Media/GOPe and finally the Cruz campaign conduct a relentlessly slanted and unfair character assassination campaign against Donald Trump for months on end, and while that has predictably driven his negatives up, it has simultaneously exposed the total phoniness and moral bankruptcy of the Establishment, who has gone all out to personally destroy this overall decent American who loves his country, sees what's happening, and wants to help make America great again.
IMHO, Donald Trump will make a fine President; certainly a better one than anyone else who is available at the moment. By the time the GOP convention arrives, he will have earned the right to have that opportunity.
Ted Cruz has plenty of time to learn from his own mistakes and run again sometime soon. If he wises up, he might even have a shot at the VP slot in this cycle.
But the hysterical dismissal and derogation of Donald Trump has to stop, and until it does, the healing and unifying process can't begin.
I know there are some Cruz supporters who will stubbornly drag out this process to the last painful moment, but hopefully Ted Cruz himself will finally show some leadership and concede defeat. There's nothing dishonorable in that.
We will see what develops as the results come in Tuesday nighth, and the Tuesday after that.
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Nobody will get an argument from me about vicious attacks on Trump needing to stop, too. All of this garbage is taking our eyes off the real target, and that’s stopping that evil bitch in November. For every attack fired and landed on our side inflicting damage and division, she cackles with delight.
Excellent post