SUBMITTED BY Brian Tashman on Friday, 2/19/2016 5:00 pm

Just one day before the South Carolina Republican primary, a super PAC aiding Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is attacking Donald Trump and Gov. Nikki Haley —who recently endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio — for supporting the removal of the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s capitol grounds ...

Cruz never came out in support of or opposition to the Confederate flag’s placement, going only so far as to say that it should be a states’ rights issue.

However, the co-chair of his South Carolina campaign, state Sen. Lee Bright, was a vocal defender of the Confederate flag following the shooting, denouncing concerns about the flag as a distraction from debate over Satanic gay rights, while likening gay marriage and attacks on the flag as twin threats to states’ rights.

Bright also hailed the flag as a symbol of “freedom” and resistance to “federal tyranny” ...

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-super-pac-defends-confederate-flag-our-flag-south-carolina-robocall

February 19, 2016, 04:45 pm
By Bradford Richardson

... The call was put out by the Courageous Conservative Political Action Committee, which supports Cruz.

It comes after a poll released Tuesday showed 70 percent of Trump supporters and 62 percent of Cruz supporters opposed removing the flag ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/270073-pro-cruz-robo-call-hits-trump-on-confederate-flag

2/19/16 4:59pm by Jon Green

... like it or not, Trump’s less-than-emphatic support for the Stars and Bars means that one of Cruz’s biggest growth areas in the state is among the same white nationalist who have thus far flocked to Trump ...

http://americablog.com/2016/02/pro-cruz-robo-call-hits-trump-for-refusing-to-support-our-confederate-flag-in-south-carolina.html

I still say he looks like a half-melted wax statue of Bill Murray playing Grandpa Munster.

because none of the other cons are any better.