” I am not confident they will. The RINOS running the party will sit it out, or give him a weak endorsement.”
It seems as though the elites who really run the system, and direct both political parties behind the scenes, have three choices:
1) Run Hillary against another weak GOP candidate resulting in her victory and another “historic moment”. Hillary serves one term, paving the way for the Dems to run a Hispanic in 2020 and win a landslide victory with the millions of newly enfranchised voters.
2) Let the Republican win and then precipitate a financial disaster - collapse of the dollar and hyperinflation. This sets up the Republicans to be blamed and Hooverized for another 50 years and assures one party rule.
3) Precipitate a terrorist or financial crisis in late 2017 to be used as the rationale for Obama to declare a national emergency, suspend the Constitution, and commission the writing of a new modern Constitution.
Were Cruz to somehow win the nomination, unlike Reagan he would not have access to big money. Without money, the media and the Dems would define him as a demon and the low information voters would turn out in droves to vote against him. In any event I don’t see him or any real conservative having a chance to win the nomination. The GOPe has rigged the game and will block access to money for any conservative, will run multiple tertiary candidates in the primaries to fragment the conservative base as they did in 2012, and if all else fails they’ll work with the Dems to use the crossover vote to ensure election of Jeb, Christie, or whoever they determine is to be the compassionate conservative nominee.
So then the real question is... What can be done??