Half a loaf is better than none.
Nominate Cruz you get Hillary. Nominate Trump you get Trump, who will make deals with democrats if he has no coattails (unlikely) BUT when he makes his deals with democrats he will get much, if not most, of what he wants in return, because that is his nature. He is the master deal maker. He wrote the book!
Besides which, if you know anything at all, which sometimes I doubt, everything that happens in Washington is the result of a deal and of compromise; no congress critter can pass any legislation whatsoever on his own, and must make deals/compromises with other critters who also have their differing agendas — anyway that is the way it used to be, now the Republicans do not even try to make a deal, they just give the democrats whatever they want.
Choosing the guy who will make deals to achieve the goals he promised the people is a far better choice choosing the guy that will be defeated by than Hillary who will then have the coattails also!
In short, deal making is good! Deal making gets things done! Better a whole lot of something than a whole lot of nothing, and worse, get it?
(Of course you do not . . . sigh)
And therein lies the problem. Maybe you think you know what he wants in return. I don't know what he wants in return. What if the art of the deal is starting at 2016 Trump and compromising back to 2009 Trump?
I won’t settle for half a loaf when I can have the whole thing. That’s Cruz.
Trump’s negatives are too high. Poll after poll shows that he can’t beat Hillary, but Cruz can.
So you take your little hero-worshiping fantasies about that progressive self-confessed establishment hack to bed with you tonight, Sparky, and maybe they’ll keep you warm.