We would like to think so but I predict it won't happen. I have avoided commenting on Cruz until Trump came out of nowhere, but I have never felt he could generate the excitement in the general public that he has garnered here. Even if he could the GOPe would go into unprecedented attack mode against him.
Trump seems to be immune to their blather. We shall see I guess.
I know what you mean and agree. It isn’t fair, but we have felt that way about our conservative candidates forever and it is getting tiresome to spend two years with our teeth gritted that they even will make it to the nomination. They never do.
Trump comes along looking like the Terminator, and I’m all in. No one else comes close. I have no real confidence anyone else can do this anymore. Republicans are basically finished except for borrowing their apparatus during a primary.
Ideologically Cruz is closer to me than any other candidate, but he doesn’t have the “it” factor.. If you had him vs hillary since neither one of them have the it factor, you might be able to pull off a win... but in an election with someone who is clearly a natural leader as Trump is showing he is... the rest of the field on both sides of the aisle just look like tired old has beens.
Time will tell, but whether I like it or not, at present what I see sure looks like its Trump’s to lose.