Cruz is pretty much finished. South Carolina will finish him for good. And, except for pretentious piety, Cruz is not more conservative than Trump - notwithstanding that Ted ‘Mercer’ Cruz is bought and paid for by PACs run by tax cheats that owe 6 billion dollars to the government.
Amateur hour does not a POTUS make. When you make the ridiculous claim that Cruz is not more conservative than Trump, it brings to mind the mob scene in The Mummy as zombie like followers of the reincarnated mummy Imhotep wander through the streets of Cairo chanting mindlessly "Imhotep! Imhotep! Imhotep!...." Their minds have departed their premises and they are nothing but a mindless Egyptian version of a Greek chorus. No matter. Imhotep and his followers get their just deserts in the end. So will the ringmaster Trump and his dancing bears and elephants and jugglers and bearded lady.
I don't have a crystal ball and neither do those who predicted a Trump victory in Iowa. No other votes are yet cast. As they say at the beginning of each baseball season, this is why they have to play the games.
I have always viewed taxes as money stolen at the point of a gun by the government. If, as a "conservative," you admire taxation so, pay yours twice and help reduce the debt or do you also admire the national debt?
Your "Mercer" reference is not at all obvious.
Have ABC, SeeBS, NBC, MSNBC, the Fox Network, the New York Times, the WaPo, the Chicago Trib and other papers who share your opinions of Ted Cruz paid all THEIR taxes? They have served throughout this campaign as Trump's supportive PAC without Trump having to run a single fundraiser.
Ted Cruz never had Slick Willie and the Arkansas Medusa as invited guests at his (one and only) wedding as The Donald had them at his third. Ted Cruz never ran a casino much less incorporated strip tease joints in them. He never insisted on a "transgender" contestant in Trump's Miss Universe contest as Trump did. Cruz has ALWAYS been a strict pro-lifer whereas Trump in 1999 told Chuck Todd he was as "pro-choice" as anyone in America and supported partial birth abortion. Then Trump adopts a cock and bull story about holding the REALLY AMAZING infant of a friend in his lap and that he was thereby converted to pro-life. Did Trump never hold his own infants in his lap? Were his kids not REALLY AMAZING? Do just ordinary kids have a right to be born rather than dismembered in utero or is it only the REALLY AMAZING kids who should live?
Conservatives want to know before buying a pig in a poke.
Long after the Trumponic Plague has run its course, actual conservatives will be here to pick up the broken pieces of the USA.