Seriously? You can’t figure out that there is a middle ground between asking someone nicely to stop and body slamming her into the ground face first?

Good point. There is no middle ground between those things and body slamming her to the ground. And, I mean, there was VERBAL AGGRESSION afoot. VERBAL. AGGRESSION. I too think he should be disciplined....for not using MORE FORCE!!!!

Haha, I love your little smokescreen of “never made a crude joke,” as if I’m criticizing her for using the word “pussy,” and not for publicly saying Palin should be gang raped over something PALIN NEVER EVEN SAID.

No. Everyone got your stupid little point. Which is that Azaelea is in the right here (or at least right enough to get your point), and Palin is in the wrong (or at least wrong enough to get no points) because she had the nerve to respond to a public comment about her that (a) suggested she made comments she didn’t…

So. Azalea read a FAKE news article, thought it was real, and then joked about kidnapping and gang raping someone. And she gets a “point” for that because she wasn’t quite serious about the kidnapping and gang rape? Cool. So stupidity and stupid jokes earn points from you. Good to know.

It’s not that he’s on the right. If he didn’t advocate against homosexuality, didn’t advocate against birth control and abortion and other personal sexual choices, I wouldn’t care about any possible indiscretions. But potential hypocrisy of those who would legislate sexual morality is relevant.

You’re right, I don’t know whether he did it. I’m defending asking the question, which you seem to think is inappropriate irrespective of what his policy positions on similar subjects have been.

Ours are better. We won’t legislate anyone’s sexuality, and I’m not advocating for legislating Cruz’s sexuality either. But he chose his policy positions, not me. My position is not to criminalize anything Cruz does, or deny him equal rights. It’s to criticize him for wanting to do that to other people while failing…

That is a load of crap. I’m holding him to his OWN STANDARD. It has nothing to do with whether I like him. It has to do with whether he can abide by the same moral code he wants to use as the basis for restricting other people’s freedoms.

Sure. And part of the merits are whether he’s even able to live up to the dictates of his sexual morality code.

Right. The discourse is served if Ted Cruz can try to legislate everyone else’s sexual morality but is never asked about his own?

Fair enough.

I don’t have one standard for people I agree with and one for people I don’t. That’s absurd. I don’t really personally care whether Ted Cruz cheated on his wife. But adultery is condemned by the same book Ted Cruz uses to justify his condemnations of homosexuality, of abortion, of birth control...all personal sexual…

Cool.

I’m not saying what’s objectively true in matters of morality. I’m saying if someone wants to use his position of power to intrude on the private lives of his citizens in the name of sexual morality, it is not a bad thing to ask whether he abides by his own prescribed standards of sexual morality. That is objectively…

Okay. Do you really not see the hypocrisy if a person like Ted Cruz who wants to tell people what they can and cannot do in their bedrooms is a serial adulterer? And how there is, objectively, NO hypocrisy when a person who DOES NOT want to tell people what they can and cannot do in the bedroom does something with…

Haha...what? Unless Clinton or Sanders are mandating that people have abortions or use birth control or have gay sex, I’m not sure why that question becomes fair game for them where they aren’t legislating sexual morality, except through some pretty extreme intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance.

Sure. I’m happy to respect the privacy of public figures who don’t try to legislate personal sexual morality. That person is not Ted Cruz.

Well....it’s always been “fair game.” Remember John Edwards?

Yeah, that’d be great if Ted Cruz wasn’t interested in slut-shaming women who use birth control or get abortions, and wasn’t interested in outlawing gay marriage. So, yeah, he has to answer that question.