My sentiments exactly. I think he chose to listen to the GOP-e consultants, who sabotaged his campaign.
Go Cruz!
Whoever wins now must be able to fight as hard as he did in Wisconson.
It's not like we haven't seen that before. They did exactly that to Bill Simon in California:
Republicans have lost hundreds of elections because they concentrate exclusively on the air wars and neglect the ground wars. By this he means that candidates for Congress, for example, just advertise and don't bother to organize precincts so they can identify their voters and turn them out on Election Day.
The GOP did a postmortem on that 2000 election and was astonished to find that a significant portion of its base didn't vote.
The political consultants, who make their money giving advice to campaigns, almost always have dismissed the need to organize the grass roots. The dirty little secret is that most of them get a 15 % kickback for booking media advertising. Any money that goes toward a serious grass-roots organizing effort is money unavailable for media.
The Republican National Committee called in all the consultants from across the nation and briefed them on their plan to implement grass-roots organizing for the 2002 elections. They all applauded. But many of them were thinking "over my dead body."
This is serious stuff. Many of these consultants are as mean as they come. For far too long, many of these unethical consultants have lined their own pockets at the expense of the candidates they are supposed to be helping, and perhaps even at the expense of the nation.
Perhaps a candidate who lost by 4 percent might have turned out to be a man of true integrity and fortitude who could have helped to turn this nation around. But he is not in Congress today because some consultant talked him out of a good grass-roots organization to ensure the availability of more money for TV ads that usually are seen by thousands upon thousands of people who can't vote in that particular district anyway.