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I haven’t really participated too much in this, but I’ll take the bait as one Trump supporter who hates Cruz with the white hot passion of a thousand burning suns. I do understand why a lot of Cruz supporters look askance at Trump as a loud-mouthed, barely-reformed liberal, New Yorker with maybe even a bit of an authoritarian streak. I happen to think he’s a patriot, and the rest doesn’t really matter. He’ll fight for America, and Americans. The rest not so much.

But back to Cruz, it’s hard to know where to start. An obvious place is that he’s not eligible, and his response to it has been disingenuous at best, insulting at worst. He knows it’s not “settled law”, and for him to go around as some sort of holier-than-thou Constitutional originalist and then dismiss Article V concerns with all of the snark of a Daily Kos blogger sneering at the questions that were raised about Obama, well, that boils my blood.

We can go next to his faux populism. The man is literally IN BED with Goldman Sachs, and has spent his entire life enjoying the life as a member of the East Coast elite. Princeton, Harvard, Bush Administration. Sure he gets up and grandstands about whatever to no effect whatsoever, but when the chips are down, he’s voting for amnesty, for TPP, for Corker, etc. He’s carrying Goldman Sachs water.

He called McConnell a liar on the Senate floor which didn’t change my opinion about McConnell (of course he’s a lying sack of sh*t what did you think?) but it made me change my opinion about Cruz in that he’s a dummy for believing McConnell’s lies.

Obviously he’s a practitioner of the dirtiest of campaign tactics (all by the way funded by a who’s who of the worst of the lobbyists and other rent-seekers in Washington, not to mention from fundraisers with gay New Yorkers, and by the way the “New York values” thing was a cheap, insulting and incredibly short-sighted way to win Iowa).

Then we have his personal foibles. He looks like Grandpa Munster and he talks like a combination of a televangelist and a sleazy trial lawyer. He makes enemies out of everyone who has anything to do with him, NOBODY LIKES HIM. Not his fellow Senators, not those who are running with him (look how hot Carson was at him by the end of it), nobody.

You can get into the weird association with “dominionist” Christianity if you’d like, his father the pastor of a one-person congregation. He seems to in touch with some dark spiritual forces, and it’s reflected in his campaign strategies.

There’s also the obvious fact that he has zero chance in the general election, really in the primary either (at this point, it’s obvious that he’s part of the brokered convention strategy). He says all the right things to appeal to the far-right of the Republican Party, and that’s won him a few caucuses in small states and his home state, but everyone knows that’s not going to play well anywhere else. But he doesn’t care, he’s willing to take the Party down to defeat so long as it’s him doing it.

But other than that, yeah he’s a great guy!