Cruz positions himself well as the true principled conservative, which targets a constituency far too narrow to win in November, perhaps too narrow even to win the nomination. Then there’s the problem of his preachy delivery and the perception that he will ‘eat his own’ to prove he’s the only real conservative.
I know Trump is at best a newcomer to some of his conservative positions. For myself, I’ve made the calculation that he is sincere when he strongly defends the 2nd amendment in every single rally, even though he messed up a while ago and said something about maybe a longer waiting period on assault weapons. His sons are serious gun enthusiasts, they’ll keep him straight. Similarly on pro life, I believe him even with some troublesome past statements. Same with limitting the size of government and religious freedoms, etc.
Meanwhile, Trump is the only one talking about finally breaking the uniparty lobbyist cartel in Washington. I’d love to see how far Trump could go with that and his common sense conservatism, without conservative purists like Cruz biting at his throat all the time with these democrat memes about him being a selfish capitalist motivated only by profit, hurting the little old lady. Horrors! Capitalism! These are attacks I expect from the left, not the right. The Republican Party really is the stupid party.
“Here endeth the lesson.”
Amen, brother, Amen!
Did anyone notice after the last gotcha question to Trump to make him promise he’d support the Republican nominee and not run 3rd party, we he said he’d support the candidate, you can see Chris Wallace’s head turn quickly to Me-gyn Kelly in a way that if I were to read body language, it would say, “aha! We’ve finally got him! He fell for our trap! ::Evil laugh::