Children Off-Limits?

even if you use them to advance your political agenda?

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Quote:

Republican Ted Cruz on Wednesday blasted the media and called for the children of presidential candidates to remain off-limits in campaign coverage after an editorial cartoon depicted his daughters as an organ grinder's monkeys. The cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes, said Cruz had used the girls in a campaign ad video so she was justified in putting them in her cartoon, which was on the Washington Post's website on Tuesday before editors removed it. The Texas senator, who has been rising in polls ahead of the November 2016 election, said at a campaign event in Oklahoma that he expected to be attacked but not his daughters. "If folks want to attack me, knock yourself out," he said. "... I signed up for that, that's fine. But my girls didn't sign up for that. "It used to be, for a long time, the rules across the board: the kids are off limits. That should be the rules. Don't mess with our kids." The Telnaes cartoon portrayed Cruz as an organ grinder street entertainer in a Santa suit with two small dancing monkeys also in Santa suits.

this is akin to using civilians as shields to your bunker.

Children Off-Limits?