When ever I hear someone say “Principled Conservative” all I can picture is Sylvester the Cat talking saying it to Tweety Bird as he is outsmarted again.
Cruz has turned “principled conservative” into an oxymoron the way Bush turned “compassionate conservative” into a meaningless phrase that actually meant tyranny, similar to the way Bush senior spoke meaningless phrases like “a thousand points of light” and turned “read my lips” into a lie.
Trump is right - politicians: all meaningless and deceiving talk and no action.