I think part of it is that Ted was outsmarted. Would you have believed Mitch McConnell would play fair? Not me. Those guys are snakes and sharks, this can’t be news to Ted so why expose to us all that he was outmaneuvered like a schoolboy.
So either Ted was actually outsmarted and was angry or he was playing for the folks back home. In either case I agree with Dynoman. I surely enjoyed the moment but it was basically a temper tantrum. Cruz has not accomplished much in Congress and as President he would need to work with Congress to accomplish anything. I’m not sure that his forte is in getting people to work together to make things happen.
Mitch lied during his re-election campaign, too, right?
From what I have read, most of the Insiders in Congress would have to be removed from their positions of power or risk tearing the party down. McConnell, McCain and Rience Priebus would have to go. The president gets to pick the party chairman.
He could get rid of McConnell over the voter fraud issue in the primary that Priebus refused to deal with.
But yes, he did get played by McConnell. I would bet that Cruz didn’t believe that McConnell actually committed voter fraud, either. People were warning him about the TPA thing and Cruz just wouldn’t believe that McConnell would lie, not to just him, but to the whole Republican caucus.
The Republicans Insiders have themselves in a bind, they have made so many deals Democrats, that they probably really would be happier with Hillary than either Trump or Cruz. What worries me is that Trump doesn’t know any more about the Constitution than he does the Bible. He isn’t an ideologue and that leaves him open to changing his mind and going in a completely different direction.
Basically, I don’t trust Trump. He has lied about the Cruze eligibility and I am sick to death of lying politicians. On the other hand, I am worried about the Supreme Court ruling on Obama’s immigration executive actions. Mark Levin said that it might take executive actions by the next President to undo it and I don’t know for Cruze is up to using the same executive actions that Obama has. I think that Cruze might be too inflexible on the Constitutionality.