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What Every Voter Needs to Know about Ted Cruz:
Special report reveals Ted Cruz’s True Masters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcYCwaBKnQ

and Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtL41Pr2d5s

I believe Ted is firmly entrenched in the GOPe. He is playing the part carefully mapped out by Karl Rove. They selected him as the pretend conservative because he has a college reputation of arguing the opposite side so persuasively. But, in the above-listed video links, he has been exposed to be disingenuous.

Of course, you don’t see it that way, I understand. But others see what you don’t see. That’s why we disagree. It’s not that people haven’t “kept up”, it’s that they view things differently.

Thanks for the links, I checked them both out, turned them over, looked under and behind them.

The first YouTube link is to an outfit called Next News which I could find nothing about on the Net except for links back to their own website. Wikipedia never heard of them, neither had CNet.com.

Looking at the internal evidence, the video was set up as a head-to-head comparison of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, but it only talked about the many questionable positions and actions and connections of Ted Cruz.

There is also a grindingly repetitive accusation that Ted is in league with NAFTA, CAFTA, SPP and NWO forces of darkness -- I agree they're forces of darkness, but the accusation rests on two points,

1) He's married to Heidi Cruz, whose CFR affiliation is by now well known, as is her involvement 10-15 years ago with Robert Pastor and the North American Union crowd, who in turn are tied strongly to both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush; and
2) He served the Bush (43) Administration after being part of the howling mob of DC GOPsters that, in their finest hour, stopped Bill Daley and Al Gore from stealing the 2000 election.

My opinion of the first linked website, then, is that it's campaign material created by IT professionals for Donald Trump. Which is fine as far as it goes, but Trump's own statements are IMHO guiding as to his opinion of Ted Cruz. I'll take the horse's mouth for $400, Alex.

The second link, to a Stefan Molyneux (he's a Canadian anarchist, secular materialist and humanist, and accused cultist: search him online, starting with Wiki; he's fascinating in his own right, but he ain't Harvard Law) discussion of Cruz's career and eligibility, is partial and partisan in the same way; we are to conclude that Ted Cruz is a snaky, nasty guy who is categorically ineligible for the Presidency under Article II of the Constitution, and oh by the way he's lying on immigration (that's a construction by Molyneux, one which is congruent with Trump's and probably got him the gig bashing Cruz).

Be in no doubt: Molyneux lays Ted waste, there's not much left when he's done. But at the same time, it's like getting bitched out by Chris Hitchens or Al Gore: Do I really care? One's an atheist, and dead (which may mean he isn't an atheist anymore, but I leave that to you), and the other one might as well be.

I believe Ted is firmly entrenched in the GOPe. He is playing the part carefully mapped out by Karl Rove.

We really disagree about that, and I adduce support from Rush Limbaugh, who has pointed out repeatedly since last fall that the Rove/GOP-e crowd have zero use for Ted Cruz; their guys all along have been Yeb! and Marco Rubio.

McConnell even criticized Kasich the other day for staying in; he and other GOP-e's are burning Kasich as "selfish" for staying in. (Being called "selfish" by Mitch McConnell is like being called a whore by the Mayflower Madam.)

No, Cruz isn't part of that bunch, I don't care what tales out of school you've heard.