What Cruz has done (or, better, will do if he now votes against TPP) is diminish himself, reduced himself into being just another one if the GOP contenders.
If he loses his differentiation, and everything else becomes equal, the big difference between him and, say, Walker is that Walker beat the crap out of the WI unions and survived. Thats not a good place for Cruz to be.
I can’t disagree one bit.
You speak of “differentiation” between Cruz and other extraordinarily accomplished candidates who have already proven themselves in the mine fields, and if Cruz should lose trust, then the margin can be reduced to rhetoric pretty quickly.
I support Cruz, but never thought he could afford many drastic errors given his accomplished competition. (Governors can more often be hell on newly minted senators running for president in their first dang term anyway.)
Maybe Cruz is running for VP, after all. I don’t quite know.