[entropy12]

Here is what Romney said about Cruz:

“If it’s Ted Cruz that’s the candidate, he’s in. If it’s Jeb Bush, he’s probably not,” Gardner said.

He said Romney doesn’t want to cost fellow moderate Republicans Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie support at this point in the race.

That changes, Gardner said, “if it doesn’t look like they can do it.”

GOPe is veru clever. They will field only 1 moderate (RINO).
Conservatives have no such unity.

[Mmmike]

GOP moderates are wedded to the idea that politics boils down to money -- their money. It pulls viscerally on their heartstrings. Just think of that agitated grimace that John McNasty cannot suppress for the life of him. If he and the other moderates could just be rid of all the lofty patriotic, historical and quasi-religious stuff, all the pretensions and apologies, they could busy themselves dividing the spoils of politics. They're the people who "know how the world works," they've built their entire lives on it, that's what matters to them, and they're "not gonna let that one get away, they've worked too hard for all this time." That's why they always pull together to circle the wagons against the conservatives.