Look, politics is a rough business and not for the faint of heart. To characterize what the Cruz campaign did as a dirty trick is wrong. They took advantage, and in my mind stretched a news report from CNN, but that's the kind of savvy action you'd expect from a politician. I'm not thrilled with how that went down, but I'm not angry about it either. I love Ben Carson. I am convinced he has a good heart and his peaceful demeanor is wonderful. But the fact is he may not be tough enough for this position. On strictly the issues, I can find very little that I disagree with Cruz on, and He took on obama, the dems AND the GOP in doing what in my mind was the right thing in doing WHATEVER is necessary to stop obamacare by keeping the PROMISE the GOP told us by defunding it.
So be it that it resulted in a gov. shutdown. The media, dems and the feckless GOP portrayed that as Cruz' fault. It didn't make it any less the right thing to do.