Since that time we have learned that the GOPe has openly set their faces against Tea Party patriots. Further, many, myself included, no longer feel any sense of national obligation to hold our nose and vote for someone simply because they're on the Republican ticket. That ship has sailed. Many Republicans stayed home in 2012 rather than vote for Romney. Man, many more will stay home in 2016 if the GOPe shafts us with their hand-picked boy is on the ballot, whoever that may be.
Ted Cruz can be the peak of perfection and rant and rave as much as he wants, but unless the GOP gets control over the WH again, he’s just a side-show. And that’s how he’s being treated by the media; any ideas he has just get ignored because they know there’s no chance of anything becoming real, and they simply feature his rants to show how powerless the GOP is.
We NEED to get a GOP president elected in 2016. I would doubt that it’s going to be Cruz, and it may be somebody I don’t like (I can think of several), but I’m voting for him or her anyway. The time to express this loyalty to “your” candidate is during the primaries, not in the general election.