Cruz’ lie about what originalists believe re NBC, coupled with his NH lie claiming, “Trump made himself rich by using eminent domain,” stand out as two of the most vile, sickening lies of the campaign. The fact that his supporters—at least some of whom seemed to be decent, honest people—gave him a complete pass on both is just a shame. Had his own supporters reined him in even a little, it would have done Cruz a world of good.
Many times over the course of the campaign I saw Trump’s most fervent supporters criticize him on Twitter, and ask him for a course correction. I even saw it happen on this site, where they were sure to have it thrown back in their faces by Cruz supporters. I never saw a similar reaction among Cruz supporters, where he was taken to task for some of his most egregious misdeeds. Maybe it happened, but if so I certainly never saw it.
Cruz’s claim to fame was following the ‘original intent’ of our Constitution. Even Larry Tribe the liberals lawyer of Harvard spoke of how Cruz played the ‘original intent’ card of the Constitution while a Harvard student. But Cruz flat out lied. He required an exemption for himself from ‘original intent’ to hold the office of president. Furthermore NONE that use to claim that Cruz follows the ‘original intent’ of OUR Constitution say that any more.. NOW they call him a consistent conservative... Cruz is rotten to his very core.
And when Mitch the Senate refused to resolve that Cruz was eligible to hold the office of president like the Senate did for lord McCain, Cruz threw a fit and called Mitch the Senate a ‘liar’.