[mrsmith]

Mark made a mistake becoming a rabid Cruz partisan.
He’d have helped Cruz more by being fair instead. Cruz IS the best conservative candidate after all.
No one expects anything but rabid Cruz boosting from Mark now.
So he has lost the authority he could have used to help Cruz.

[Cold Heat]

Do you even listen to him!

He has stated dozens of times that he will vote for Trump should it be necessary in the general and let the best man win.

That is something that I would have said and was considering up until a few weeks ago.

As a result of these personal attacks on a man I respect greatly, directed by Trump or his campaign and supporters, I can no longer consider voting for trump in the general and will not at this time entertain the idea.

[Cold Heat]

I neglected to mention that it's not just Cruz being savaged by so called conservatives, it is everyone that supports him, no matter how high they are placed in the Conservative movement.

This is really disgusting.

[elengr]

Mark made a mistake becoming a rabid Cruz partisan. He'd have helped Cruz more by being fair instead. [...] No one expects anything but rabid Cruz boosting from Mark now. So he has lost the authority he could have used to help Cruz.

That is a very true and insightful comment!

I think Levin must know in his heart of hearts that Cruz's citizenship issues are serious and an unacceptable defect to many conservatives (25 percent by a recent Breitbart poll), but he really, Really, REALLY likes Ted Cruz, so he suffers from cognitive dissonance and fights back with emotion-laden intolerance rather than logic (which he secretly fears would undermine his position).