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This is why I don't trust Ted Cruz: he supported the Sequester cuts that further gutted the US military.

Senate GOP Hawks Vote to Keep Sequester Cuts

Military spending has shrunk below 16% of all Federal spending, and is now below 3% of GDP. Cruz knew this, and knows this.

Yet, he, like many in the Tea Party, abandoned our military to some $600 Billion in more cuts in 2013, AFTER the military had already been cut by $487 Billion the year before! And, the military was under the Continuing Resolution spending, which froze planned budget increases (which by then were very small) and caused further damage to the military.

The men and women of our military were used as political pawns in the budget war, and Cruz left them to twist in the wind.

Wars, as you know 2ndDivisionVet, are "come as you are." These airstrikes are nothing, real war is coming. Possibly WW III - and Cruz, like other Tea Party politicians, played our men and women in uniforms like chess pieces.

I know Obama shares most of the blame, but Cruz is no Reagan.

Reagan is the benchmark...Not a lot of people come close to his ability to rise above the political fracus that used to be...

I do not believe Reagan would have put up with this nonsense these days...

You may not trust Ted Cruz...I can dig it...But do you believe for one second ANY other potential has any chance against what we know is coming to your GOP “presidential” slate this next cycle???

No one I know of can please everyone all the time, anymore...

Just my opinion...

I know Obama shares most of the blame, but Cruz is no Reagan.

I think Cruz could reach the Reagan category. Time will tell—God willing. But Reagan made lots of compromises while in office. Cruz's tactical vote on a budget bill, where as I recall no support of the military would get 0bola's signature in any case, does not constitute an abandonment of principle, according to me. You may honorably disagree, of course. Like you, I think some "losing" stands on principle matter.

But here's what I think Cruz shares with Reagan—despite the fact that they are very different in many ways:

Reagan's dramatic timing;

Reagan's ability to cut through the blah and reach the American people right through the very bodies of the Red media trying to block his path;

Reagan's insistence on moral and strategic principles—carrying the day when all the "sensible" weaklings had been demanding that he compromise.

Cruz is a leader. Let's pray that he fulfills all that God will ask of him.

I like Cruz. It is not that I am blind to his missteps, but we need someone with his guts to go up against the socialist element that is dismantling this country.

Conservatives have a tendency to eat our own when they prove to be less than perfect. That is a losing strategy.

I am pretty sure your timing is a bit skewed. Cruz was not yet elected to the Senate when Sequester was passed.

In fact his stated opposition to Sequester was one of reasons to join his bandwagon.