Well, Pilgrim, you have a nice list of things that we have gotten, and “conservatives” have not stopped. I can sense that you are passionate about all these things, but Ted Cruz has not actually DONE anything to stop any of this. You may say, “But he stopped the Gang of Eight Bill!”, but Obama went ahead and implemented more than the Gang of Eight Bill with Executive Action.
Face it! We are in deep, deep, do-do! We are probably too far gone for anyone to help the country get back on track. However, there is one and only one candidate who has the remotest chance to demolish the current order and restore the Republic. That person is Donald J. Trump.
I like Ted Cruz a lot and hope he will be president someday. But I cannot think of a single real accomplishment he had in the senate. I say that not so much to knock Cruz but to make the point that nothing has changed in Washington. Politics go on as usual. The conservative cause has not been advanced one millimeter since the Reagan Administration.
So yes, many of us are fed up. Donald Trump may not be the conservative that Ted Cruz is on paper. But Trump has a lifetime of accomplishments and we are hoping that he takes that same success to Washington. If we somehow nominate Ted Cruz, he will likely not win the general as he has no crossover appeal. I wish it were otherwise but we need to face facts and realize we cannot win a national election today with the conservative base alone. In fact, the same holds true for the liberals. The 20-30 percent in the middle are what decide elections and they are far more likely to cross over to Trump than to Cruz. (Would love to be proved wrong though).
Right now, we need a disruptor. We need somebody to shake things up. Here is where Donald Trump's massive ego and love of controversy can be beneficial to that effort. Trump has no desire to ingratiate himself with the Beltway elite. He doesn't care how many of those people he pisses off. This is what we need. Once we have things sufficiently shaken up, then we can think about others who can move conservatism forward.