Bingo!
A little backstory...
Back when Ted was Beckless, Cruz challenged the very rich, very connected, very establishment Lt. Gov David Dewhurst for senator. During the course of Ted’s primary, Dan Patrick hosted a radio interview with Cruz that turned contentious (yet laughably mild by today’s standards). It turned out that Dan Patrick was anti-Cruz and quite vocal about it on his radio program, working madly against Ted all through the primary and runoff. The motive was later discovered. Patrick had his eye on running for Lt. Gov and wanted Dewhurst out of the way in the Senate as he didn’t want to run against a strong incumbent. Ted royally screwed that plan up. Patrick sucked it up and went full bore against Dewhurst for Lt. Gov, running quite a good campaign, which led to Patrick’s definitive win. Some people (ahem, like me) never forgave Patrick for his behavior toward Cruz, but politics makes for strange pairings, and now Dan Patrick is all about the Ted.
If we were playing Pictionary & the word was dork........