Unfortunately, Cruz is starting to sound more and more Jim Jonesish. Beck has told us that Cruz was sent by God to guide us thru the Rapture, and Heidi has told us that Ted will “show us the face of God.” His father also said that Ted was “the anointed one.” All this must be coming from Cruz himself, or he’d tell them to lay off that stuff.
Cruz should establish a compound somewhere, like in Guyana, and stock up on Kool-Aid packets.
I'm just flagging this because if/when Cruz falls off the deep end with Beck, it really makes a good tagline and I'll forget who to thank. ;-)
When the autopsy is done on Ted Cruz’s failed run for the WH, one key mistake will stand out, and it is that Ted shifted his positioning from that of the tough-as-nails champion defender of the Constitution, to a too-slick-by-half, slippery lawyer, with the aura of a creepy televangelist.
Ted was almost irresistible as a candidate when he first announced. He had just the right tone and confidence. As long as he had no competition, and no one was challenging him on anything, he appeared to be practically ideal. Many of us projected virtues and qualifications onto him that he doesn’t, in fact, possess.
I think Ted would have maintained that marketing illusion, had he been strong enough to resist the urge to ‘improve’ his brand. By choosing to change his skin in order to please a perceived voter block, he wound up locking in a public image that he now finds hurtful to his chances.