Beck wasn’t as big a blunder as Neil Bush.
Bringing Bush on board telegraphed the likelihood that Ted’s vote for the Corker bill was neither a mistake nor an oversight.
Optics are everything in modern politics, and Cruz knows that, so the Bush thing was a complete screw up. And once you make it, you can’t do anything or it draws more attention to it.
Until Iowa, Cruz was running a really sharp campaign. He’s had plenty of errors since then. So has Trump, but Trump is able to roll the punches so far. He’s just better at handling optics.
Ted’s vote for the Corker bill was neither a mistake nor an oversight....It was traitorous.