From a Cruz supporter, you accessment at number one is correct. What is truly important is whatever the speech is from Romney, Donald has to suck it up and answer it without getting juvenile. He has to be the more Presidential. Any talk now of leaving the party for a third party run is just what they want. They want their vehicle to power back.
There really is a simple answer to Mitt.
Mitt, you are very harsh in your criticism of me or any other candidate that is outside of the “inner circle” of the establishment. As your past campaigns have shown and your current course of action shows, you will to any length to degrade and demonize anyone who would challenge the power of the elites.
What a pity that you were and are unwilling to go to those lengths against those truly destroying the country. The voters trusted you to bear the standard in 2012 and you utterly lacked the vigor and energy to make the case needed to unseat Obama. You seem only to find that vigor to trash and criticize when it applies to those not handpicked by the elites. That is why the voters rejected you in 2012 and why, quite frankly, they will likely do so again now.