The comparison is patently dishonest. Cruz fights for what he believes and is not afraid to name the names of the traitors in our midst. McCain ran to lose, Palin was a mistake for him, he runs to the left at every turn, he lives across the isle and BTW - hates Ted.
He is taking a serious weapon off the table.
BS an excuse all you want, but in past elections we used to complain when candidates would say stuff like this. But Cruz doing it I really just a cool trick he’s playing....or some such nonsense.