@HoustonSam
With the exception of Carson, all of the examples you cited fall short of the mark or are wildly off target.
Fiorina attacked Trump first in a bid to get on the main stage in the debates.
How? When? What did she say?
Trump's not donating a million dollars to veterans fast enough is a media inspired red herring, and skipping a debate isn't a dirty trick.
So it's purely a coincidence that he donated the money the day after the media exposed that he had never done so, and months after he publicly took credit for doing it? "Fast enough" means donating *before* talking about it, and if he were sincere he wouldn't need to talk about it at all. No it's not a dirty trick to skip a debate, it's simply cowardice, but all the pro-veteran hype Trump wrapped around it was exposed as a lie when the media called him out on failing to deliver. Using veterans as props and then lying about it is pretty dirty in my book.
The coordinated attack on Trump's wife came from a pro-Cruz PAC with ties to Fiorina who subsequently joined Cruz on the campaign trail.
No, it was done by a pro-Rubio PAC.
The Steve Tyler incident encapsulates the Cruz mindset about dirty campaign tactics.
Tyler re-tweeted something without verifying its authenticity. He quickly deleted the tweet once it's inaccuracy was revealed. He issued a public apology to Rubio.
Not good enough for Cruz who summarily fired his communications director and used the incident to deflect blame for all his campaign's dirty tactics.
Replacing senior campaign staff for falsely disparaging someone else's faith is simply holding them accountable to a principled standard.
It should be noted that the dirty tricks didn't stop with the removal of Tyler, but they did become more nuanced and harder to trace back to Cruz.
If Cruz really wanted to run a clean campaign he never would have hired someone like Jeff Roe to run it.
If Trump really wanted to "Make America Great Again" he never would have hired someone like Paul Manafort, a lobbyist for Putin, to run his campaign.
Trump may be crude and offensive but he didn't play dirty like Cruz.
Finally we agree on something, Trump is crude and offensive, so you who support him have a lot of work to do in making his candidacy attractive to the rest of us. But rather than making Trump look better, you are just making yourself look bad by continuing irrelevant and baseless attacks against Cruz. Not only do you continue digging when you're in a hole, the hole itself defeats your own purpose. Kelly Ann Conway seems to have done some good work with Trump in getting him to focus on the actual campaign rather than his childish personal vendettas. You and other Trump supporters could profit from that example.
Make the best case you can for Trump, leave Cruz out of it, and we'll have no argument. Otherwise I think we've both made our positions clear and at this point we are pretty much talking past each other.
@Longmire
