I would vote for Cruz in a heartbeat. Glad you love Cruz. But please drop the pseudo intellectual posturing and deal with real facts. If, as you postulate, Trump is politically DOA because the Party Elite will not support him, then so is Cruz.
They hate Trump as an outsider but they think they can outlast him. They hate Cruz because he is an apostate, one of them, who choose to side with the "infidels" against them.
But buck up little Mr. The GOPe hated and feared Reagan so much they tried to run a Liberal GOPe drone as a third party independent spoiler against him in 1979. Reagan demolished them and the Democrats.
"Tyranny like Hell is not easily conquered"
Wake up.
Cruz’ negatives are so low they’re almost invisible.
Trump’s are growing like a forest fire.
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