Silence From Cartoonist Ann Telnaes After She Goes After Cruz Kids

It’s easy to put the Ann Telnaes / Sen. Ted Cruz dispute into the neat little pre-packaged Republican or Democratic argument. Here it was, an edgy if provocative cartoon writer depicting Ted Cruz’s children as monkeys in a Washington Post piece that has since been removed. Obviously that is despicable regardless of political affiliation and a violation of long-standing unwritten rule, but perhaps the more interesting question is regarding boundaries. Telnaes breaks unwritten rule, but will she evenly apply it across the board? There is an unwritten rule in politics that a political leader’s young children are off limits as…