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“please leave me be... argue with him, not me.”

The Sundance you referred me to is not on this forum (at least not that I know of). Why are you? Do you think this forum exists just so you can spout off foolish recommendations and point those who disagree with your opinions to some third party.

“Cruz did not have the numbers for the nomination.”

We are discussing a senate race. The Republican presidential primary has been over for a couple of years now. This is not your forum, so don’t tell people who disagree to go away and leave you alone. This is a discussion forum that works BOTH ways. It is not your personal soapbox. If you don’t like this arrangement, YOU can go and leave others be. Here, in the real world, opposing Cruz has real and devastating consequences. I have asked you and others who keep attacking him to suggest a better alternative.

Possibly more than 80% of the Republicans in the senate are GOPe. Even most of these are better than the Democrat alternative. Why certain members of this forum are literally obsessed with attacking Cruz—who has consistently voted pro-life, pro-1st amendment, pro-2nd amendment, pro-family, pro-conservative—I can not for the life of me understand. Even if the outlandish accusations you and others make were 100% true, it would not justify your obsession and misdirected focus.

For example, John Cornyn is a Texas RINO up for reelection in 2020. He is also gunning to be majority leader when McConnell retires (i.e. dies). McConnell also is better than people like Harry Reid in that he accomplished things like preventing Obama from naming another Supreme Court Justice. Cornyn, likewise, is not the worst possible candidate for the job. He would make a fairly decent Democrat candidate as most of the GOPe politicians would. Most GOPe are just Democrats who identify as Republican where Democrats can’t win. Some are total sellouts, like John McCain and Mitt Romney.

“do your homework from The Conservative Treehouse and try to deny his arguments about Cruz”

It is possible for us to respectfully disagree over where Ted Cruz falls in the spectrum of conservatism and look at the pragmatic outcome of him winning or losing. Cruz losing this election would be broadcast as a HUGE loss for Trump and an excuse for the GOP to further abandon conservatism. The MSM would be spreading the GOPe meme that the Republican party has to adapt to the times and be “MORE moderate” (i.e. liberal).

Can you disagree that this would be the outcome of Cruz losing? Can you give any reason why a member of this forum should push for such an outcome? I’m not demanding that, or even asking you to, agree with my views about Cruz. I’m simply asking for common sense about the outcome of the mid-term election.