The closest Sen. Ted Cruz has come to apologizing for having fled Texas for a planned four day stay at the Ritz-Carleton in Cancun winds up attesting to how impoverished is his character. So it is much closer to a confession than an apology.
Mr. Cruz’s initial story was that he had fled Texas for Cancun only to accompany his young daughters there, in response to their pleas for a vacation. When that story was exposed as a lie, with the predictable media blowback, Mr. Cruz, in a widely circulated video interview, stated that the trip “was obviously a mistake,” and that “[i]n hindsight, if I had understood how it would be perceived, the reaction people would have, obviously I wouldn’t have done it.”
In other words, “a mistake was made.” Not “I made a mistake.” And “I wouldn’t have done it, because I got caught and now it looks like I am going to have to pay a big political price for it.” Not “I wouldn’t haven’t done it, because doing it was wrong.”