“What it means is that Ted hasn’t been able to get anyone to follow.”
The only way to tell anyone what they want to hear in order to follow you is to tell them exactly what they want to hear regardless as to whether it is true or not...and Cruz is speaking language they don’t want to hear because he is speaking the TRUTH!.
The old saying “when you shine a light on roaches they all run to the dark places.” Well, Cruz just “just shined the light” on the RINOs.
I’ve been around for a long time and have worked at corporate levels and also at GS-11 levels for the government and since I read and knew the regulations very well I would “hold their noses to the stone” and force them to abide by the rules and regulations. With that in mind I heard the following phrases many times: “he doesn’t row the boat with the rest of us.” “He is a loose cannon.” “He’s not a team player.” And...a host of other sayings that meant that I would not deviate from the rules and regulations to accommodate them. I wasn’t born yesterday and I sure as hell know corruption when I see it.
Ted Cruz is entering the same “flack” simply because he is shining the light of truth upon the roaches you call good and honorable Senators...and believe me...there is no honor among them for they have sold the citizens of the United States “down the river” in order to enrich themselves in both money and stature.
Why won’t they folly Cruz? Simple...because they have been told not to. Nothing more, nothing less.
“folly” = “follow.”
There was no greater "loose cannon" than Ronald Reagan when he was president of SAG---yet he got all sorts of people to follow him. He gave one speech in which the members voted seven to one with him. That's leadership.
But as long as people keep making the excuse that the reason he gets no followers is because "he's right," then there will never be a victory. Because it IS possible to be both right and a leader.