Cruz’s greatest strength is that he has been the one politician to take a consistent series of principled stands against the Establishment.
This line of argument is designed to damage him with his base because the Establishment is afraid of him and they hate him. It will not work, and it must not.
If anyone’s the “Nixon” in this race (in the way that the article describes), it’s Donald Trump.
Yep.
But don't worry -- Trump promised "compassionate" conservative Hugh Hewitt that he'd have a military so good "your head will spin." We know this is true because he's built bit skyscrapers and stuff, and talks back to reporters. He also scornfully talks down McCain's status as POW, saying he's only a war hero because he got captured. "I like people that weren't captured," he quips, and the audience laughs in sympathetic agreement with Trump.
And I'm sitting there thinking about a man I knew who survived the Bataan Death March.
Trump should have loved Nixon -- didn't Nixon end the VN war, from which Trump had five deferments to avoid service?