Nice to meet you ;)
I, personally, have not seen ANY adds back in the states.. but, from what you described, it sounds just like what the GOP(e) did to get rid of the real Conservative choices we had (not many, honestly)..
SO, as far as I can see (which isn’t very far at the moment, but I DO trust Palin’s voice/opinion 100%), you made a wise choice :)
Sadly, besides Kay B. Hutchin*itch, I don’t know many politicians, unless they have made news here.. so, all I can go on anymore, is from what I learn from other FReepers :/
Palin pretty much sealed the deal, and here at least, it was only a matter of time before she came to his support, but waited till it would have the most impact, and it has. This election early voting totals are running higher than the primary was. Dewhurst and the Lame Stream are spinning this as much as they can, but i feel that Cruz is going to hand the GOPe a serious a$$ kicking. This will be the highest profile GOPe take-away to date.
You should hear and see the onslaught of ads from Dewhurst attacking Cruz, they are all debbie downer ones and you can tell he is scrambling to save his political life, which is what you do when your internal polls show you losing. Cruz on the other hand has ads that are about what he stands for, what he wants to accomplish and why you should support him. the type of ads someone running up in the internal polls would run. IMO