Doris Keanrs Goodwin: Cruz ‘Somehow’ Missing the Gene for Love

GOODWIN: "Well, what strikes me about Mr. Cruz is I don’t think there’s been, in history, somebody who’s a politician, who has colleagues saying the things that they say about him. Not just “Lucifer in the flesh,” but Representative King said, “I’ve got to take cyanide then vote for him.” And, “The love child between Dracula and Joe McCarthy,” that Al Franken said. In the 19th century, if you said things like that, anything like that on the floor of the House or the Senate, you would be formally censured. One guy simply said another guy in the 19th century had made a false assertion; he didn’t even say lying. Formally censured. Seven guys formally censured. They also had canes that they’re hitting each other on the head with, so we haven’t reached that."
TODD: "I was just going to say, we had more physical violence, less rhetorical violence. Is that what you’re saying?"
GOODWIN: "But I’ve never seen a politician who doesn’t want love. Usually that’s the hole in their heart, they need it. He somehow misses that gene."