I think you may have swalloed the GOPe schtick about what constitutes Consevatism.
True Conservaties would probably applaud the SC judges, love God and worry about the C of C corporist types who will fund and own Cruz.
True conservatives do not like free trade, but fair trade, do not adore profit over all, but a just profit. True conservatives understand that weakening the middle class destroys a country. Almost the entire political class disses the middle class.
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You must have no idea what a conservative is.
Cruz is a real conservative that believes in Godly government, and the rights that were supposedly protected by the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights.
He has fought for, and won the protection of those rights in the SCOTUS.
No other candidate has, nor do they even believe in them.
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