Cruz has plenty of name recognition and exposure.
The problem, unfortunately, is voters like my mother. She is an intelligent, educated, highly successful woman who believes that moderates are the key to solving today’s problems. Nobody like extremists from either side, she says. She thinks Ted Cruz is an embarrassment.
She has done extensive research on our family history and discovered that she is the ninth grandniece and I am the tenth grandniece of Benjamin Franklin. When I try to talk to her about the vision of our Founding Fathers, she rolls her eyes and snarks that Benjamin Franklin might as well be a cartoon character because the times define the men and such men could not live in these times.
She has many friends and colleagues who think exactly the same way. See the problem?
Yeah, I was wrong. You are right.
Well they’re going to get the country they deserve.