The “conservative media class” are very image conscious and most felt that supporting Cruz gave them the bragging rights of supporting the candidate that claimed the mantel of most conservative early on. Now that it is becoming obvious that the likely winner of this contest is the other guy... a bunch of them will be pivoting to Trump and pretending like he was always secretly their candidate. That is called momentum. Even the editor of the National Review looked like he was eating crow tonight. They tried to stop the Donald in his tracks and just found out that their influence is currently negligible and dropping fast.
They all should have taken a lesson from Rush, who does his best to steer clear of giving the appearance that he favors one candidate over another.
He may fail to convince us that he’s impartial sometimes, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him go so far out on a limb for a candidate, that it broke clean off.