Most of the Tea Party Senators were bought or blackmailed the first day they were in Washington if not before. I thought Cotton was a standout for his forthrightness until I heard him on Hannity. He speaks like a true political weasel. Cruz is still a forthright standup guy if you write off a couple of his votes as just bad judgment but if his judgment is that bad then he sure as hell shouldn’t be President. He would still make the necessary VP side of a pair that has Trump as President.
Trump’s judgment is so much better.
There is no perfect man, much less a perfect conservative, and I would happily, enthusiastically vote for Ted Cruz. Even Reagan made mistakes, and I still wouldn’t take him back. He righted the ship of state for the short while he was captain, it just wasn’t enough to overcome Margaret Thatcher’s “ratchet effect”, well-named.