Well, you apparently can’t read or comprehend.
Is anything Cruz said as bad as what you said? As long as we're making judgements on people, it really looks like you're having trouble laying out your argument. You make claims and then don't back them up, falling back on insults rather than explaining your views.
Sort of like Cruz not realizing who he was talking to and adjusting himself accordingly.
Certainly, he should have realized the guy was a jerk and there wasn't any point engaging with him. Politicians, like everybody else, function well in defined and familiar situations. It's a mistake to go off script with people you don't know or people who don't like you or to plunge into unfamiliar circumstances.
But it really sounds like you're taking some of Ted's positive qualities and treating them like negatives. Being too earnest and sticking to one's guns and not sinking to somebody else's rude and boorish level wasn't always perceived as a negative in political life or if it was, at least we didn't revile earnestness or persistence or a preference for rational argument above insults and one-liners as human qualities.
But here I'll take my own advice, ma'am, and realize that there's no point in continuing a discussion with you and sign off.
Oh, get off your high horse. That guy owned Cruz - he filled in the ludicrous long pauses that Cruz is so enamored of with terrific put-downs which Cruz didn’t even bother to refute or deny with similar wit. He was like a turtle on his back.
He’s a jerk to you because he embarrassed your beloved candidate. A candidate for the highest office in the land should be able to go off script. But when was the last time Cruz spoke to an actual working class guy? When the shoe-shine man showed up at his Senate office?
It’s all moot anyway as of this moment.
Secondly, Cruz has NO, none, zero, nada "positive qualities" and even his own children don't like him.
Teddy IS rude, borish, creepy, a LIAR, a fraud, a fake, and shall NEVER be president.
Just write your OPUS and be gone !