[Shery]

Yes...no under the DC crowd hates him, and wanted him to bow down and apologize to Mitch McConnell if he wanted their backing. Praise God he didn't!

[20yearsofinternet]

Oh wow, so very principleTED of him to not apologize to Mitch...

...

...yet.

Ted Cruz will use a few hundreds some poor widow mailed him to light a cigar with Jeb Bush and bide his time.

[winner3000]

That’s exactly the kind of gutsy leadership that made me lean toward Ted Cruz at the beginning of this campaign season.

However, when Ted Cruz has obviously joined with these same disgusting GOP establishment Senators to gang up on Trump instead of joining Trump to gang up on the Establishment, that’s when he lost me. The lure of the Presidency apparently was too much of a temptation. I am so disappointed.

Given the choice between voting for a conservative who joins with the establishment, and a less than conservative who opposes the establishment, I would vote for Trump. We have been sold out by too many “conservative” types to fall for that again. Including George W. who at the time seemed like the most conservative guy running!

[karnage]

Cruz!

[DouglasKC]

McConnell and top lieutenant Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) reluctantly backed ending debate after it became clear that no one in their conference wanted to cast the deciding 60th vote… In the end, 12 Republicans voted to end debate in the 67-31 vote. That vote guaranteed that there would be no leveraged spending reforms, and at the same time allowed for a simple majority to raise the debt ceiling.
The Republican leadership bent over backwards to give Obama another debt ceiling raise with zero attachments to fiscal sanity.
Cruz stood up, and spoke for 80% of the nation, fighting against more and more debt. Unfortunately, after giving the Senate to the Republicans, they still continued to give the Democrats everything they want.

In a nutshell this is what's wrong with Cruz. He talks a good game but in the end everything stays the same. There's something about his personality and style that prevents him from really building a coalition for conservative ideas. Because of this the GOP keeps him around because it keeps people voting for the GOP on the premise that a token conservative or two can't hurt.

Contrast that with Trump. He has the personality and the skills really needed to institute true conservative change. He's campaigning on conservative issues...that's what he's promising and he has the skills to actually get them implemented.

[kosciusko51]

What I find so funny is that there is a group who believe that Cruz has capitulated to the GOPe. From what I see, it is the GOPe that has finally resigned itself to supporting Cruz. YMMV. Peace.

[mrsmith]

I liked this even better than the Obamacare filibuster.