The Battle for the Soul of the Right

Politico ^ | 01/20/2016 | Rich Lowry

[LesDowrey]

"...Truth be told, he is a prodigal son of the establishment. In no real sense is Cruz an outsider. He graduated from Princeton and Harvard. He worked for the George W. Bush campaign and served in Bush’s administration. He became solicitor general of Texas, and defended corporate clients at the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. All the while he was angling for a political opportunity and hit pay dirt in his upstart campaign for the Senate, which immediately became a launching pad for the presidency...."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-right-213548#ixzz3xtYBp6oS

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Full disclosure: Rick Santorum supporter here. But I thought that the snippet by the original poster does not fairly presents the tone of the article. For example, another part of the article says this:

Cruz is a rigorous constitutionalist. He's devoted much of his career to defending the Constitution and has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court. Trump has certainly heard of the Constitution, but he may know even less about it than he knows about the Bible.

Cruz is an advocate of limited government who is staking everything in Iowa on a principled opposition to the ethanol mandate. As a quasi-mercantilist and crony capitalist, Trump isn't particularly bothered by the size of government and is happily touting his support for a bigger ethanol mandate.