I am that way, but Cruz is making it harder and harder every day. Picking the Mean Queen of Outsourcing, Carly, to be his running mate, is about as tone-deaf as it gets, given his history of wanting to massively increase H-1B visas. Let alone the rank stupidity of picking a running mate when you have no mathematical way of winning the nomination without a contested convention.
If Cruz had bowed out after the NY primary, or especially Wednesday after the Acela primary drubbing he took, he could have positioned himself as the 2nd place finisher - and that usually is the pole position for the next contested primary. But now he is just damaged goods, and getting more and more damaged every day this circus drags on.
My biggest problem with Cruz is the disconnect between his image as a principled, conservative warrior of high intelligence and the reality that he’s more of a cynical hack politician.
His blunders are big and obvious, yet he plods along seemingly oblivious to reality.
I also find fault with his presentation, which despite his credentials is positively abysmal. Does he just come across as a smirking asshat, or is he a smirking asshat? As time goes on, I’m inclined to believe the latter.