There’s no reason to believe that Cruz will be anything more than another pansy establishment R if we use your logic and reverse it.
Ultimately, it comes down to A: Who do you trust more to follow through, and B: Who will have the strength to make it happen?
And those are not a matter of facts and logic; those are ultimately a matter of opinion and your personal most important voting topic.
“There’s no reason to believe that Cruz will be anything more than another pansy establishment R if we use your logic and reverse it.”
That’s simply a nonsensical statement. I realize that the echo chamber of Trumpania repeats this over and over, but it doesn’t make it so. Cruz demonstrated by his conduct as a Senator, bucking his own party establishment over and over again in the most vocal, unequivocal fashion. Moreover, he has a history of conservative philosophy and practice going back to his teenage years. Going back to his work at the FTC and later, as Solicitor General of Texas, he was conservative. Always.
I know you can pick the anecdotal case of the FPP or his wife’s tenure at Goldman Sachs, but these are, at the very, very worst, 1) a single, isolated case in the Senate and 2) having a spouse with a job in the capitalist market place.
So, your attempt to flip the devastating logic of Trump’s record back onto Cruz utterly fails.
You are correct to a degree about whether you have confidence in the candidate’s ability to carry out an agenda, but I haven’t the slightest doubt about the key question I posed: who do you trust with a Supreme Court pick. Trump, who doesn’t know the meaning of the word “conservative”, or Ted Cruz, who could give a brilliant dissertation off the cuff?