“Cruz, providing he doesn’t pull a Perry, will stand alone”
Thats the whole problem. He will stand alone because all the moral cowards will flock to the ‘winner’ because thats what they will again be told to do.
I get your point precisely, but 2nd IA - 2nd NH- 1st SC - 1st NC or even 2nd-2nd-1st-2nd would put Cruz within reach.
At that point, it's a money game - could he attract enough to saturate Super Tuesday? And that is a real problem - who is bankrolling primary conservatives these days? Adelson? Anschutz? Can't count on Bush's TX crew.
He'd have to have his own monster PAC and all of the Tea Party affiliated.