My disappointment In Ted Cruz
I have been a huge supporter since he rode the Tea Party wave back in 2012. His record has very good and one he should be proud of. Since being elected to the senate, he has been a great advocate for small, constitutional government. His filibusters were amazing and I stayed up late for them. He has been one of the leaders against illegal immigration and lead the fight against Obamacare.
In terms of the race for the GOP presidential nomination, I was, and still am by every sense of the phrase “on the fence” between Cruz and Trump. I don’t fully trust Trump and Cruz never has done me wrong. Until now. If i had to pick one thing I favored about Trump over Cruz was the fact that as much as I like Cruz, he is still a politician and I don’t trust politicians farther than I can throw them no matter if there’s a “D” or an “R” next to their name. Trump is not a politician so he doesn’t have the politician stigma.
Unfortunately, Cruz has proven my concerns to be accurate. By now many of you have heard what happened between Cruz and Carson during the Iowa caucus. Carson accused Cruz of “dirty tricks” by spreading false rumors that Carson was giving up in Iowa and that Carson voters should jump ship and vote for Cruz.
The Cruz camp did feed off a CNN report that said Carson was going home which the Cruz camp took as he was “giving up” and I honestly don’t blame them for assuming he was giving up because to me, it seemed kind of random to just leave Iowa for some R&R only a week away from New Hampshire. The issue was the Cruz camp failed to follow up with CNN’s forward tweet that he wasn’t giving up but just going home for some clean clothes. They conveniently left that part out and that is why it was seen as a “dirty trick”. Cruz apologized Tuesday on Fox News’ Hannity saying:
“Unfortunately, they did not then forward the subsequent story, that was Ben’s campaign clarifying that he was continuing the campaign and was not canceling the campaign,” Cruz said. “And so I apologize to Ben for that. They should have forwarded that subsequent story. That was a mistake on our part.”
Carson has since accepted his apology saying:
“As a Christian I will accept the apology but it doesn’t correct the problem,” Carson told CNN. “This is a cultural issue when people in your campaign feel that it’s ok to distort the issues to their political advantage and to tell absolute lies. And the question really is will there be any consequences for that.”
Carson’s call for accountability in the Cruz camp is a just one in my opinion. The only way Cruz gains trust back from people he lost it from would be to have those responsible for this to come forward and accept responsibility. What the just punishment is, I’ll leave that up to Cruz to decide and we will determine if voters want to move forward.
Not to anyone’s surprise Donald Trump is crying foul over the issue calling it “fraud” and demanding a redo or Cruz’s results be nullified. Haha nice try Donald! If Trump is worked up over this dirty, but relatively minor ethical violation only one state into the race for the White House, he’s in for a wild ride as we still have 49 states to go and it is only going to get nastier. Trump has had is dirty low blows as well like making Cruz’s birth certificate an issue to try and give him a slight edge over his rising rival when many other people have ran not being born on US soil. I’m not a constitutional scholar so I’m not about to say whether or not it’s a clear cut case but it really seems unnecessary and should stick to the issues.
This whole debacle is likely to be faded and lost in people’s memory by the time NH rolls around although Carson and Trump will definitely be reminding people. Without the false rumors it still looks like Cruz would have beat trump and there would have had to of been a 24 thousand vote switch for Carson to overtake Rubio.
Regardless, it has brought on unwanted attention and Scrutiny by me and I can imagine a lot of other people as well. Even though Cruz still holds a slight edge over Trump in my eyes, he is treading on some real thin ice and now I will be watching him like a hawk. Something a politician never wants.
Last and final warning bud. If you do something one more time that makes me question your ethics, we’re done here. In such a crucial time in our country and a need to defeat Hillary, Bernie and every other low life globalists, we do not need this.
We deserve better Mr. Senator!