Rube and Cruz have remarkably similar backgrounds and both articulate. I don’t know why I don’t have that same early doubt of Cruz as with Rube, and hoping I don’t get burned there.
I have the same gut instinct about Cruz. Like you, I never had that reaction to Rubio. Maybe it's because Ted's my Senator, and I was much more attentive while he was on the way up, but I don't think so.
Ted's been a true leader for conservative causes since arriving on Capitol Hill. I don't see where Rubio ever did that. Seems to me that he got there, and immediately began falling in with the treason lobby.
I see the exact opposite behavior with Ted Cruz. He's done nothing but step on the toes of the entrenched traitors since he got there.