“If no one liked him, he couldn’t have come from behind to beat David Dewhurst, the favored GOPe choice, for Senate in 2012”
If the people of Texas had known Ted Cruz was still a Canadian citizen when he campaigned for the Senate, Sarah Palin would not have been there to help him win that election, and he would not have been a Senator campaigning for President now.
He was an American citizen and a Texan, and that's all they cared about.