Good post! I darn sure want you on my side when the zombie apocalypse hits, because you you are on the alert for perceived slights to the point of paranoia.
I thought you might appreciate the Field Marshal Rommel mention on account of your screen name only! I guess I could have said Pat Buchanan or Newt Gingrich.
Again, it is not patronizing or a slight in any way to the young candidate with no legislative, elective office, or leadership experience like his older opponent has, to prefer the experienced candidate. Why would you think Cruz would morph into a RINO? If anything, guys usually get more conservative with age. And Cruz is ready right now if he wants to be a policy guy who writes law - just not at the level of U.S. Senate. That time may well come.
I’m less concerned about a zombie apocalypse than I am about the RINO-Democrat collusion, which makes the zombie thing seem positively sedate. Certainly no paranoia, as it is all out there to see... if you choose to open your eyes. Some like them shut because it makes them more comfortable.
As I’m sure you’re aware of Godwin’s Law, any mention of prominent members of the Third Reich or its military leaders in such a context is bound to invoke it. As for Buchanan and Gingrich, they also have problems (one reason I never supported the latter for President, although at present have ceased any overt objections to his candidacy if only by some miracle he can stop Willard and the leveraged buyout of the soul of the GOP).
Again, as for Mr. Cruz, he is going places and hopefully if he comports himself well in the U.S. Senate, he will find himself before long taking his place on SCOTUS, the ultimate goal (comparable to, but not ideologically equivalent to Indiana’s Sherman Minton, who prefaced his SCOTUS experience with service in the Senate). As for Dewhurst, I wish him and Perry well... in a very swift exit and permanent retirement from elective office.
I would also admonish you on one point, there is almost no example in our modern era of elected officials getting “more Conservative” as they have grown older (while still holding office). Indeed, in almost every instance, they soon become the very festering boil, cancer (if you will), that they pledged to come to DC to lance (or remedy). The media has a term for this, it’s called “growing in office.” I’d much rather they shrivel up or simply retire once that unfortunate “growth” spurt takes hold. 6 years tends to be the point between freshness and the spoiling date. Some get rotten before, some after, but it almost inevitably happens.