@CatherineofAragon
@Smokin Joe
What should be noted is that nearly every talking head and radio star on the right participated. Virtually *no* quarter, no defense of Cruz by the so-called 'conservative' media.
I'll tell you what, that wasn't Tump's doing. and that's a fact. Tump was the hawker, but that was organized.
It was the reason I left FR, really. Where that had been a place where such garbage had been debunked, (Like the National Guard 'memos' Dan Rather waved around) it had gone to a place where the CNN feed screen captures that said Carson was dropping out were ignored and Cruz was claimed to be a liar--even though Cruz did not send the tweet. Not that at that hour Cruz could gain any significant number of votes anyway. Trump lost Iowa, and that's when the SHTF, from well timed (for the next region holding primaries) and targeted assaults on Cruz' character from Trump's pal's National Enquirer to the blaming Cruz for an independent PAC ad, and then assaulting Cruz' wife, all sense of fairness, honesty and decency had been subsumed in a blood fogged frenzy of hate, and Heaven help those who tried to stand up and say "This is WRONG!".
I refuse to associate, to lend my name, my thoughts, my words, my viewership, my money to a site, media outlet, or other entity which would willingly harbor such egregious falsehoods and do so proudly.
All of this was done to suck the willing along, the angry in, and promised the moon and stars (well, wall, deportation, and prosecutions) to the suckers.
Some of whom even now make excuses for those not being done.