Hubby and I said, at the time, that it was like he was saying what the elites THOUGHT Evangelicals wanted to hear. But it was pretty clear it was over the top and he didn’t really believe it himself.
Very true.
Cruz’s big donor (Mercer? Keep the Promise pac) got with Cruz in 2012 I think. They started then. He put Cruz together with a data mining research company that he (mercer) is invested in, and they started crafting the message to give to the evangelicals.
Cruz is a smart guy, who thinks he’s very clever. So he had this all mapped out, thinking he would get all the very conservative religious voters. But he has only been able to marginally deal with Trump by lying, so he’s had to accept the help of the main establishment most likely in exchange for keeping the status quo. And believe me I think Cruz is ambitious enough he would throw everyone under the bus to make himself president. He may even believe he can affect some return to constitutional principles, but I only give him a small benefit of the doubt. Most of what I have heard him say, or read what he’s said, has been crafted for him to be able to play ita number of ways. lawyer speak. and that tells me he is fundamentally dishonest.