I was never really a Cruz supporter. Truth be told, I didn't like any of them.
I completely understand where Cruz is coming from. Trump has a history and I just outright do not agree with his tactics and I have zero faith in the guy. And when you vote for somebody, you have to have a reason to believe they will do what they say, you can't just lean on words.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for Cruz to not support Trump. Trump went out of bounds, as he does on many things, against Cruz. I believe in being true to your word, but I also believe that a man should be true to the spirit of his word, not just the legalistic interpretation of it. I look at it like this. A boxer tells another boxer that if he wins, I'll call you the greatest in the world! Now say the other boxer wins by constantly hitting below the belt. What do you expect him to say? Do you expect him to look the other man in the face and say "yeah, you are the greatest."???
Now there are two ways to look at Cruz getting on stage and doing what he did. You could say he was the whiny guy who went up there and took a cheap shot. He didn't live up to what he said in the primaries before the below the belt blows started. OR you could look at it as a kid who stood up to the bully and punched him back below the belt... giving him the same treatment he was given. It is all going to boil down to perspective. It could go either way. The funny thing is that most likely, both narratives are likely true. It is a mixture of both.
There is one thing that is very apparent here:
You can say that Trump won and everybody should get behind him. Well, there is a problem with that logic. The majority voted for an non-unifying candidate. And you have to know that. If you didn't know it then, you better at least see it now. The majority clearly didn't want an unifying person... they wanted a divisive person, and with that, you got divisiveness. I personally vote for the biggest unifier... not the biggest divider. This isn't just Cruz... there are a ton of other politicians that are just clinching and bearing. They don't believe a word... they are trying to fill in the gap and trying to "force" the unification because the candidate can't seem to do it on his own.
I completely understand where Cruz is coming from. Trump has a history and I just outright do not agree with his tactics and I have zero faith in the guy. And when you vote for somebody, you have to have a reason to believe they will do what they say, you can't just lean on words.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for Cruz to not support Trump. Trump went out of bounds, as he does on many things, against Cruz. I believe in being true to your word, but I also believe that a man should be true to the spirit of his word, not just the legalistic interpretation of it. I look at it like this. A boxer tells another boxer that if he wins, I'll call you the greatest in the world! Now say the other boxer wins by constantly hitting below the belt. What do you expect him to say? Do you expect him to look the other man in the face and say "yeah, you are the greatest."???
Now there are two ways to look at Cruz getting on stage and doing what he did. You could say he was the whiny guy who went up there and took a cheap shot. He didn't live up to what he said in the primaries before the below the belt blows started. OR you could look at it as a kid who stood up to the bully and punched him back below the belt... giving him the same treatment he was given. It is all going to boil down to perspective. It could go either way. The funny thing is that most likely, both narratives are likely true. It is a mixture of both.
There is one thing that is very apparent here:
You can say that Trump won and everybody should get behind him. Well, there is a problem with that logic. The majority voted for an non-unifying candidate. And you have to know that. If you didn't know it then, you better at least see it now. The majority clearly didn't want an unifying person... they wanted a divisive person, and with that, you got divisiveness. I personally vote for the biggest unifier... not the biggest divider. This isn't just Cruz... there are a ton of other politicians that are just clinching and bearing. They don't believe a word... they are trying to fill in the gap and trying to "force" the unification because the candidate can't seem to do it on his own.
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