I know you are for Cruz, but I think Trump has run a pretty close to perfect campaign. Cruz actually has been shocking at his antics. Cruz really had this nomination made for him, but for some reason he went why off the tracks. It is really rather weird.
On this we mostly agree. Trump HAS run a mostly awesome campaign. he has been by far the shrewder politician. But to say that Cruz had it made and messed up I have to disagree with. He has fought his own party too much to have the party embrace him. And he personally took most of the brunt from the MSM for standing up and trying harder than anyone else in the Senate. he took the blame for the government shutdown, and the slow-downs and stops on Judicial appointments. So he had it tough from both sides. He was INSIDE - yet an OUTSIDER having to fight both parties.
Trump planned it well to come in full barrel against both parties, and immediately attacked the republican Congress as ineffectual which they have been against Obama and Reid. His claims to "we will win" were very shrewd. Cruz couldn't fight both parties and win. And we are all damned tired of losing. And damned tired of being lied too, about what will get done. Trump tapped into that sentiment, and thereby was able to paint Cruz - the biggest fighter in the Senate for what he was elected for - as part of the "losing"
I hope we all like the deals trump makes. And I hope we all can stomach what he will really accomplish against a Democrat Senate that can filibuster his every wish. And against a constant drumbeat from the MSM. rememeber how they treated Bush, and Reagan. It will be WAY worse against Trump. And above all I hope that Trump can even beat Hillary. I seriously doubt it - once the general election starts- she and her MSM press will eviscerate him. That will help anger many of the rest of us republicans to his side, but it will wipe out his chances with moderates, independents, and cross-over Dems. That's what I honestly fear. Then we have another Clinton term in the White House, and at least two more liberal supreme court justices, and it's all over.