Here's why Cruz is so universally despised among his peers:
When Cruz says he'll fight for a bill, he actually fights for the bill. When he says he'll do everything he can to repeal Obamacare, he means, he'll do everything he can to repeal Obamacare. These other Senators say they'll fight these battles, but they have no intention of really accomplishing anything. They hold show votes and dog and pony shows and nothing ever gets done. They fund every program they pretend to be against and send President Obama only the bills they know the President agrees with and wants to sign.
Senator Cruz's refusal to lie to his constituents and to the American People makes the rest of his congressional colleagues look bad. Voters in Arizona and Utah may well be wondering, "If Ted Cruz isn't afraid to stand up to the Obama Agenda, then why does my Senator seem so afraid"? Maybe its' because Hatch and McCain have no intention of living up to any of the promises they've made to you. Ted Cruz, by actually putting up a fight, made the cowardice or complicity of Republican Leadership obvious to every last one of their conservative constituents.
Senator Ted Cruz was supposed to be one of them. In fact, because he was "one of them" he was able to move up through their ranks and hold prestigious positions. Yet, Ted Cruz never quite fit in. I believe what these elitists hate the most is that they feel that Ted Cruz looks down on them. Ted Cruz doesn't respect them because they have money, or because they went to Harvard, or because they are men of power. Ted Cruz is motivated by principle, not class. Ted Cruz has a political agenda and a love of constitution that overrules loyalty to his ivy-league brethren. This "counter-establishment" that elites loathe, has recognized that Senator Cruz is exactly what they've been waiting for – they also know that this counter-culture of political insiders is more powerful than their establishment buddies realize, fueled by the freedom, conservative, and constitutionalist movements amongst the populace and composing the backbone of the grassroots of the party.
Ted Cruz is an ivy-league elite who, despite all indoctrination and peer-pressure, has continued to pursue his passion for principles derived from the enlightenment and from the United States Constitution. He doesn't care about being liked by the upper-class, to whom he was destined to be indentured. He demonstrates the hypocrisy of both the Democrat and Republican establishments and has pulled back the curtain for the American People. The elites fear the harm done to their power when the American People understand exactly how corrupt they are in wielding it and they have been utterly unable, no matter how many of them slither up to microphones to denounce him, to hurt his popularity with the American People.
Fear plus helplessness equals hate.
I’m listening to carr now interviewing sessions and Carr is asking him why Cruz is hated too.