No need to recruit him, Cruz has always been establishment elite.
I see Trump and Cruz as roughly equal threats to the establishment and the traditional GOP. They are on different paths but those paths are not sanctioned by the party. Carson would also be quite a blow to orthodoxy. So that leaves them with Rubio and Kasich. Rubio is a bit of a maverick compared with Kasich so I imagine they will pull for Kasich as long as they think there’s any chance, while also encouraging Rubio.
Personally, I think Cruz is the better bet. With Trump, there is too much uncertainty as to actual philosophy and while he might rip up the party, he might also fail to deliver on core conservative promises implied. I think that Super Tuesday needs to be a time of sober reflection — which of the non-establishment candidates is really most likely to deliver the sort of fundamental change without also introducing unwanted elements of chaos or disorder?
For me, that question is self-evident. I would even rate Carson ahead of Trump in terms of probability of principled conservative change in America. But this point of view may get drowned out in the stampede to an obvious front runner. Just be sure you know where the front runner is going, in case you don’t want to go along.
Mitch McConnell?
Is that you ?
“No need to recruit him, Cruz has always been establishment elite.”
Daddy brought something to the table back in the Cold War.
Count on it.
What the hell are you smokin'? You might dislike Cruz, but he certainly isn't 'establishment'. Wake up, it's the establishment elites that hate his guts.
Ridiculous. Cruz has fought the GOPe his whole career. That includes defeating Dewhurst here in Texas.
Oh, you need to wise up. o Cruz has always been establishment elite. Unlike Trump, the establishment HATES CRUZ. I suppose, in your warped view, the attacks by Cruz on McConnell — calling him a liar on the Senate floor — were all a game. The Trump supporters on this site ARE NUTS, PURE NUTS.
Read today’s Wall Street Journal column by Kim Strassel. Trump is the ultimate insider, pal with the Clintons, pal with the DC elite, the guy Reid thinks he can work with. TRUMP IS PLAYING YOU FOLKS FOR FOOLS. Great job — and keep thinking that Cruz is the establishment, as old Lindsey Graham talks of killing him on the Senate floor. Trump can make a deal with them instead.