I thought that the coverage of Cruz’s missteps on his family history would be over this week. After Bob Garrett’s blog post transformed into a story in the print edition, I considered this issue over.
This morning, though, the Dallas Morning News continued their coverage, this time in the form of an editorial that gives practice advice to Mr. Cruz on dealing with his family history in his Senate run.
“Cruz, who had not run for elected office until now, should have been clearer in describing his own history and far more assertive in controlling those who were loose with its particulars.”
Adding to Mr. Cruz’s woes was Part II in his self-inflicted wounds, his bulldog attack of the Council on Foreign Relations. In case you missed it, Cruz referred to the group as snakes who are threatening American sovereignty.
Perhaps he did not think through his answer, but Ted’s wife, Heidi Cruz, was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations until this June.
Heidi served a five-year term on the CFR, where she served as a co-author of a report that many blog commenters seem to interpret as calling for a North American Union. My reading of it is that the CFR is advocating for a closer relationship between Canada, Mexico and the United States – no more no less.
An entry on David Frum’s website asked why Ted, an Ivy League-educated attorney who has spent most of his adult life as a government lawyer, would veer so hard to the tinfoil hat side of the conservative wing.
To the author, the answer is simple – political expedience.
How Cruz responds between now and Thanksgiving, when campaigns traditionally go underground, will be an interesting case study for a candidate who has spent so much time courting the Washington press, only now to face attacks from it.
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