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An anti-Trump Super PAC unleashed a Facebook ad in Utah which featured a nude photo of Melania Trump, from her days as a model. This led frontrunner Donald Trump to respond with a tweet against Ted Cruz, who fired back in kind.

The conservative Super PAC Make America Awesome started the spousal war with a scandalous photo of Trump's wife, with the caption: "Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday."...

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/03/22/...-on-heidi-cruz/

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I just hate this.

Me, too. But apparently, when it comes to Trump bashing, all bets, and standards of decorum, are off.

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Me, too. But apparently, when it comes to Trump bashing, all bets, and standards of decorum, are off.

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It's a great picture of Melania. A fantastic picture. A wonderful picture. If Ted thinks it's going to persuade people to not vote for Trump he's ghey.

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Me, too. But apparently, when it comes to Trump bashing, all bets, and standards of decorum, are off.

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But don't forget Trump has threatened to respond in kind.

What a splendid idea. Let's attack each other's wives. Both campaigns should be ashamed and are approaching new levels of stupid. Hillary must be cackling uncontrollably at this disgusting nonsense.

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TRUMP DIDN'T START THIS...

No, but he can end it immediately by not responding in kind. In fact, he could earn himself points by condemning the original post, stating his wife is not a campaign issue, and calling on Cruz to repudiate the actions of that PAC.

PJ Media has an article on this which includes the War of the Tweets that resulted and this penchant observation, These events led the Associated Press to report on the high levels of...ahem...debate which occur in the Republican primary.

Just great, guys, just great.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/03/22/...singlepage=true

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TRUMP DIDN'T START THIS...

No, but he can end it immediately by not responding in kind. In fact, he could earn himself points by condemning the original post, stating his wife is not a campaign issue, and calling on Cruz to repudiate the actions of that PAC.

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I don't like it either, but I get it. The nature of man is to protect his woman.

I have no idea if Cruz had any part in this. If he did, shame on him. If he didn't, it might have a good thing to have cracked down on this immediately and spoken privately to Trump. Perhaps they could have reached a truce so that the ensuring tweets would not have been issued.

At the same time, how do you put the toothpaste back in the tube once the picture was put out there in the ad (which I have not seen)? Does anyone really expect Trump to have sat there and not said a word in response? Would people WANT Trump to sit there and not respond?

IMO a more restrained Trump tweet could have served the same purpose. Then again, what do I know?

Trump's instincts have served him well to this point. I do hope the women are left out of it from this point. Then again, I'm sure they knew what they were getting into at the onset.

Politics, it ain't beanbag, that's for sure.

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He might, but that's not the New York way. We come from a "F*ck me? F*CK YOU!" kinda ethos.

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Me, too. But apparently, when it comes to Trump bashing, all bets, and standards of decorum, are off.

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But don't forget Trump has threatened to respond in kind.

What a splendid idea. Let's attack each other's wives. Both campaigns should be ashamed and are approaching new levels of stupid. Hillary must be cackling uncontrollably at this disgusting nonsense.

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I assume Trump responding in kind was part of the plan. New Yorkers make great counter-punchers. And it bears repeating, TRUMP DIDN'T START THIS...

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Me, too. But apparently, when it comes to Trump bashing, all bets, and standards of decorum, are off.

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But don't forget Trump has threatened to respond in kind.

What a splendid idea. Let's attack each other's wives. Both campaigns should be ashamed and are approaching new levels of stupid. Hillary must be cackling uncontrollably at this disgusting nonsense.

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I assume Trump responding in kind was part of the plan. New Yorkers make great counter-punchers. And it bears repeating, TRUMP DIDN'T START THIS...

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But Trump didn't respond in kind. The Cruz campaign had nothing to do with this, and even so, Trump went after Mrs. Cruz.

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Me, too. But apparently, when it comes to Trump bashing, all bets, and standards of decorum, are off.

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But don't forget Trump has threatened to respond in kind.

What a splendid idea. Let's attack each other's wives. Both campaigns should be ashamed and are approaching new levels of stupid. Hillary must be cackling uncontrollably at this disgusting nonsense.

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I assume Trump responding in kind was part of the plan. New Yorkers make great counter-punchers. And it bears repeating, TRUMP DIDN'T START THIS...

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But Trump didn't respond in kind. The Cruz campaign had nothing to do with this, and even so, Trump went after Mrs. Cruz.

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Probably from "walks like a duck, talks like a duck". Let's see: Iowa and Ben Carson. Rubio and the Bible [campaign guy got fired on that one]. Now this. It amazes me how little Ted Cruz seems to know about what his campaign, and his allies are doing. But an ad, aimed at Mormons, and "Cui Bono" . The same folks Gleen Beck is telling Cruz is the sacred goat [or whatever] of Mormon prophesy. And where's the public denunciation of the PAC and the ad from Ted?

Once [Iowa] is a coincidence. Twice [Rubio] is a pattern. Three, well, you get the point...

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I thought I should go and take a look at the ad. Okay, looked...yeah, bad ad. Although I'll bet few men would be offended.

My first thought...whose ad? The PAC "Make America Awesome," founded by Liz Mair and Rick Wilson. (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...t-donald-trump/)

I was unable to Google any direct connection between Cruz, Mair, and Wilson. However, in this article Cruz explicitly denies any involvement with this PAC. http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2...elania-ad.html/

Trump, however, is having none of it, and his last posted Tweet reads "Lyin' Ted Cruz denied that he had anything to do with the G.Q. model photo post of Melania. That's why we call him Lyin' Ted!"

I get the sense that they've both said their piece unless one or the other throws out something new and/or takes the bait again.

Then all bets are off.