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Thanks for your comments, and I agree with them.

You know, I’ll bet some of these people can’t understand why
a military superior tours the hospital after a campaign when
a number of his men have been injured.

He can’t heal them. He can’t take away their pain. He can’t
make it so nothing bad happened to them.

There are many things he can’t do, but he can look at those
men in the eye and be one with them for a few minutes.

He can express his sorrow, let them know he cares, and let
them know he hurts because they do.

He will encourage them. He will tell them how proud he is
of them. He will declare them heroes and explain as best
he can how much they accomplished that they may not have
been aware of.

Class shows class.

I've watched these threads with interest today, and have read your comments on a number of them. I too, really had little to say, until some of the ridiculous defenses of Cruz's actions just became a little over the top.

I was living in Louisiana at the time of Katrina and Rita in 2005. At that time we had one R Senator (Vitter) and one D (Mary Landrieu). I know for a fact that if, in the days following Katrina, Landrieu had been caught going on a Mediterranean cruise, there is not a single FReeper that would have defended her actions the way Cruz is being defended here. As it stood, Landrieu cynically capitalized on Katrina to try and politically damage GWB and his response, but at least she made it look like she was acting strong on behalf of her constituency. Virtue signaling? Perhaps, but as Lee Atwater was fond of saying, in politics, perception is reality.

Cruz's record as a conservative is generally defensible; he's done a lot of things to promote a conservative agenda. He's also made a good number of boneheaded errors that nearly cost him his last election and on his present trajectory will lose him his next election. I may be accused of being a Cruz hater, but nothing I can do or say will damage Cruz any more than Cruz has damaged himself.