Scott Brown was too. And I recall when Karl Rove was a magnificent Bastard.
Not saying Cruz couldn’t do it...but it’s a long road.
Neither one of those two came out of the gate with the righteous fury of patriotism that Ted Cruz has shown. They were both artificially elevated by the fortuitous circumstances surrounding their arrival on the public stage.
Unlike Cruz, they did little to earn the attention and adulation they once received, and it was thusly short-lived.