They’re petrified.
You bet your sweet bippie they are. They know if people have the choice between Liberty and this lie upon lie of mushy nothingness and a yoke of regulation and dependency around their neck, they will choose Liberty.
If he has a modicum of success with the likes of a Flat Tax, a new free market health care system, and potentially re-tooling all the entitlements, he will role back the Leviathan almost all the way back to FDR and that has them ****ing their pants.
Once tasting liberty, the DNC could loose generations of up and coming voters, and they know it in their guts...
In one of her books, Ann Coulter said that liberals see conservatives in one of only two ways: they are either stupid, or evil.
Bush was stupid.
Nixon was evil.
Reagan was considered to be both evil AND stupid.
Well, Cruz appears to be another twofer for them, so that may be good for everyone else.