This illustrates the greatest reservation I have about Cruz. Can sufficient ‘peer pressure’ be brought to make him crack and equivocate or compromise. This indicates to me that yes, it can. When he has something to lose, Cruz will play an excessively cautious game, IMO. He -knows- better. But does he truly have the grit? I think not. This is a question about fortitude, not intellect.
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Cruz is a politician. That is something I accept. It explains his non-statement of a statement last night when commenting on Trump’s latest soundbite. After delivering a non-statement to give himself time to ponder the issue and possibly, as you say, take “peer pressure” into account, Ted fell flat on face.
The only conceivable thing I can think of is his statement, which is un-Cruz-like, plays well in Iowa where his focus has been.
In which case, he is pandering.
Yeah. A bad moment. Not a deal killer, but definitely some structural damage there.
Beware of Trump. Please. He is a creation of the MSM, purely, and has been a left-leaning party-switching moderate for 26 years, demonstrably. That is the fundamental truth.
He's a patriotic showman and an entertainer who believes in his brand image of business genius. His thought processes and speeches seem hot-headed and mercurial, echoing the anger of Americans.
These truths are fixed, I'm afraid. From where I'm sitting, Trump is just more of the same moderate-left GOP progressive with patriotic flair to get people to vote for it. If he gets nominated, conservatives lose. They just won't know it at first.