Cruz may be self serving, who in politics isn’t at some point? Realism dictates he has to take on his chief opponent who is clearly Trump. His talking points will sound like McConnell and Co. because they are the sorts of things one can say in 15 seconds. Many individuals here are small ‘c’ conservatives who hate the electronic medias impact on discourse. It is what it is. We are not going to get the ‘Lincoln-Douglass Debates’ because no one would listen more than a couple per cent of the voters. So even intellectuals such as Cruz are reduced to sounding like Chevy Chase rather than Hamilton or Jefferson (TJ actually hated speaking. He was a poor and hesitant orator).
I’m aware of the conditions that dictate the nature of contemporary discourse.
Cruz still could’ve said something more substantive and spoke to a positive vision, rather than the shrill tantrum he threw last night. He was entirely undignified.