There was a time when I was a Cruz booster. I was impressed with his oratory and his tenaciousness.
But then he got in bed with Glen Beck and I began to loose faith. The crazier Beck got the more faith I lost. I felt Ted had cheated me; impress me and then suck up to that sleazy moron.
Today I back Trump 100%. Curz is but a shadow of himself. The razzle dazzle today with Carly is just that, razzle dazzle. Desperate men do desperate things.
I respect Ben Carson who released he could not win and dropped out with grace instead of Cruz who has lost and instead of realizing that he has turned into a delusional sore loser
I'll go one step further. He never was the guy he convinced us he was.
I think he's an intelligent, very ambitious guy. I think he figured with his act, he could get a senate seat in a friendly state by getting grassroots support by saying all the lines that conservatives love.
It got him to represent Texas in the US Senate. He probably also figured that with Obama on the way out, there was a window for his ambition: run for the Presidency just four years into his run in DC. Stick to his act, amplify it a bit, pull some stunts in the senate to get him some notability, and run as the "genuine" conservative in a year he was confident the country would be hungry for a change after eight years of Obama.
Not an irrational calculation. But he was wrong. His act didn't play well nationally, appealing only to the most insular subset of the GOP electorate. Worse, the country wasn't particularly hungry for a self-identified principled conservative. I think many GOPers (and many voters in general) grew alienated by conservatives in DC's poor results over the last 25-30 years.
Add to that, Cruz was a particularly poor salesman: stressing the Constitution, rule of law, entrepreneurship, etc was a major blunder. Indeed, an understandable one - it would have worked well in 1980, 1988, or 1994.
He stressed conservative features, not conservative benefits. The average GOPer is very frustrated, so I am not surprised that this just didn't resonate with enough people to give Cruz that rocket fuel to take him to the top.
Just as well. He has many defects that would make him a very likely loser against Hillary (his resume notwithstanding). He's exactly the kind of GOPer the liberals love to run against - odd looking, awkward, stressing points that the typical voter is uninterested in, with a natural obnoxiousness you can usually only get in central casting.
He's a parody of the white conservative Republican peddled by the media channels. He's easy to mock. He would have done great in 1972, running for a safe Republican congressional seat, and he could have lived there in bliss for 40 years if he wanted.
While I think initial his bet was a good one, it just didn't go his way. That's probably a good thing, as we see how increasingly alienating and ridiculous he has become.