Stopping Ted Cruz is the Number One priority of the GOP Establishment.
I have read that Scott Walker ‘is acceptable to the Establishment’ so I operate with the notion that others aren’t with Ted Cruz at the top of their list and Rand Paul because he does not support the Vietnam-style policing of our enemies by the political elites begun with the Communists after 1945 and now the terrorists after 9/11.
I support Cruz including my $$$$ and see the strategy of the GOPe as smothering him with pretend conservative candidates (to get attention and money that would go to Cruz) who really support the Establishment.
Hence all the noise being generated around everyone from Huckabee to Santorum (who will announce a “decision on May 27th) to Ben Carson to Rick Perry to Bobby Jindal and the list goes on.
Donald Trump is out there in Iowa touting ‘business experience’ and for him that meant supporting Mitt Romney in the end in 2012.
Its all about smothering Cruz and protecting Jeb Bush who they hope will squeak through in the end after all the conservative votes in the GOP caucuses and primaries will be split among the gang of pretenders.
I’ve never heard it put that way, but what you’re saying makes sense. I mean Hillary is like a gift to the GOP. The more she campaigns the more people are turned off. If they got behind Cruz, he’d win in a Reagan~like landslide. The GOPe is instead focused on derailing his campaign.