[datura]

Ted should wear the shunning of the GOP as a badge of honor rather than lobbying them for endorsements.

[Vigilanteman]

Ted has already been endorsed by Utah's good U.S. Senator. Mike Lee is worth a dozen Chicken Hatches.

[pilgrim]

This is also telling

“Without invoking his name, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah scolded fellow Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday for publicly accusing their party leader of lying about a deal to revive an obscure government agency, saying comity in the august chamber is both tradition and simply “the honorable thing to do.””

Mr. Hatch did not call out Mr. Cruz by name, but he didn’t need to, as it was clear he was calling to task the freshman Texan who is running for president.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/26/sen-orrin-hatch-scolds-sen-ted-cruz-for-saying-sen/

[LS]

Too late. He lined up 1000 GOP “endorsements” in IA, only to find in subsequent polls that Trump was crushing the “most likely to change Washington” category. This includes state establishment types. The endorsements were a huge negative for Cruz in SC.