But more than that, leftist propaganda has brainwashed many folks in the center. Those folks have a negative opinion of Cruz, Palin, etc. without even knowing why.
And it infuriates me the the GOP establishment does nothing to push back. Look at the presidential debates in 2008 and 2012. All the so-called moderators were lefties. One, Gwen Ifill, had even written a fawning book about Obama! Yet no protest from anyone in the GOP.