[Digger]

So Cruz wins. Then BK the state, stop the handouts - now the freeloaders will see just how compassionate their dems are - and then the next election we will vote in the primary a real conservative who will win. We may even clean up in the Cal senate & legislature. Let's just stick with true conservative candidates & one day we will prevail.

[Consort]

So Cruz wins.

Very probable and very bad. It will not convert liberal freeloaders; it will create more of them. If necessary, take the shallow victory (if we don't win, then they do); take the lesser of two evils (yeah, it's still evil); don't wait all your life for someone to "earn" your vote; forget about principle and conscience — they may be warped, so why take the chance.

[familyofman]

"Then BK the state....."

I don't think that bankrupting any state is a platform anyone would really want to run on. If the voters become aware of a plan to bankrupt their state by any party to gain politically - they will be digging the largest hole known to mankind. To be cynical is one thing, but to wish suffering on others for political gain is not only stupid - it's immoral.
No matter who wins the election - they will still have a huge problem & no mandate to do anything about it - talk about "dead man walking". It will probably be better to lose the election, then you only have to criticize rather than doing something.