Maybe it's just telling about how effective Open Primaries can be in monkey wrenching the other party?
"The government's gonna pay for it" -- (D)onald Trump
[The Trump Tapes: Vol. 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE
I think it had less to do with open primaries than it does with the creepy tone given off by Glenn Beck. Beck was saying that Cruz was sent by God to guide us thru the Rapture, and Scalia’s death was part of God’s plan to get people to vote for Cruz. Even the Duck Dynasty guy got into the act saying that STD’s was a punishment from God. That’s the kind of stuff you hear coming from someone holed-up in a compound with a stockpile of Kool-Aid. I’m betting that turned off a lot of people.