Because Cruz fights for the people and the Constitution, not for go-along-to-get-along olive branches from other members of his party.
Loyalty to people and party is a path to evil. Loyalty to principles and the Constitution is the path of righteousness.
Once Trump made it clear he would appoint justices who would uphold the Constitution, it became clear to Cruz and others that he was worthy of an endorsement.
He is not the representation of all that is righteous. His self-righteousness and sanctimonious arrogance reveals his true character.
You are of course entitled to your own opinion, but I do not buy his righeousness for a minute. Cruz has shown himself to be a snake, time and time again. An obnoxious, dishonorable snake. He is the snake in the story, The Snake, that DJT read at the rallies.
Cruz signed a pledge. The time to honor that pledge was long before he did. Instead, he accepted DJT’s sincere olive branch extension, and used it as a platform to engrandize himself. He got booed for a very good reason.
That he met privately on AF1 with Obama at a critical point in time just cements what a two-faced, dishonorable, dishonest, conniving, disgusting piece of work he is. He engenders strong emotions of visceral hate for a very good reason.
I know you hold him in high regard, JJ, but on this we must disagree.
IMO, he is the epitome of all that is wrong with DC. He is one of the Swamp Monsters that needs to be drained.