{"id":32056,"date":"2018-09-01T11:37:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32056"},"modified":"2018-09-01T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:37:48","slug":"speaking-of-endorsements-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32056","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of endorsements &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cruz-and-trump.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32057\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cruz-and-trump-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cruz-and-trump-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cruz-and-trump.png 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it comes. Donald Trump has announced his total support for Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. He&#8217;s planning a major campaign rally for the Cruz Missile, who is fighting for re-election against Democratic challenger Beto O&#8217;Rourke.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have Twitter posts such as the one that appeared in February 2016, when Trump and Cruz were rivals for the GOP presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz is &#8220;another all talk, no action pol,&#8221; Trump said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Now he is giving Cruz his blessing?<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of flip-flopping that gives politics a bad name. In my humble view.<\/p>\n<p>Oh sure, Democrats do it, too. But you are welcome to spare me the &#8220;both-siderism&#8221; argument that emerges in these partisan political discussions.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking in this instance about a particular contest that now includes the president of the United States of America, the head of state, head of government, commander in chief, leader of the Free World &#8230; <em>blah, blah, blah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The public domain is full of this kind of thing that will require some explaining. I do not expect the president to come clean on whether he was speaking the truth then, or whether he has re-defined the truth to fit the moment.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it comes. Donald Trump has announced his total support for Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. He&#8217;s planning a major campaign rally for the Cruz Missile, who is fighting for re-election against Democratic challenger Beto O&#8217;Rourke. Then we have Twitter posts such as the one that appeared in February 2016, when Trump and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32056\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaking of endorsements &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7928,7932],"tags":[7490,7043,4537],"class_list":["post-32056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-donald-trump","tag-2018-election","tag-beto-orourke","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32058,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32056\/revisions\/32058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}