“he was booed off the stage after telling voters to “vote your conscience” “
Hey Ted, just to be clear, you weren’t booed for saying “vote your conscience” or “vote for the Constitution”, you were booed because you said you’d support the nominee, which you are not doing. You are clearly just another clever and opportunistic lawyer, putting yourself first.
It was a Cruz too far and rather than the doom of Trump, the Trump of Doom for Cruz.
If he had been smart, he would have made nice with the Trump forces, played a useful role, and positioned himself for a run in 2024 after two Trump terms, or even in 2020 if Trump decided one was enough.
But no, he decided to roll the dice that either Hillary would win and stink up the joint, or that Trump would have a terrible four years. I don’t think Trump could have a terrible four years, although I don’t doubt that it will be a very confrontational period, even so, Cruz wants to confront a lot of the same forces.
Hell, Cruz even endorsed the wall.
That was the strangest part of it, together with seeking the billionaire’s favor and being refused it.
The words alone carry some merit, but context is everything and this was like giving the Sermon on the Mount at the Grand Mosque of Mecca. It was like hijacking a plane, and jumping without a parachute or the cash. It was like ... most other things Ted Cruz has done since he lost his way somewhere between Iowa and New Hampshire.
He could have been a player but now, I can’t see him recovering more than 10 or 20 per cent of his support base. Even if Trump, let’s say, does make a mess and violates the constitution, people in the conservative movement are going to say, Ted, you should have stayed with us and used your influence for good from within. So it’s loss-loss and there’s no spin that will work, of course people would cut him some slack on the insults but he got down and dirty too.
But now that this came and went, my suggestion is, declare a moratorium on post-mortems and get seriously into the real challenge which is how to defeat the Democrats, the media and the elites all in one fell swoop. It’s not going to be easy. A 55-45 plurality is required just to defeat the fraud and the dead come to life vote.