When I saw the first headline saying that Neil Bush was becoming part of Team Cruz, I knew that the fix was in, be it part of the GOP establishment's Plan C, D or any other letter in the alphabet. Since around that time, Ted's very reason for living seems to have become nothing more than to stop Trump, and very little else. No more "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" moments, no more "outsider" talk, no more of what had drawn me to him up to the teddy bears at the border incident, and made me at least give him credit where (I thought) credit was due.
Now I'm pretty much convinced he has been an establishment climber who wasn't well liked by the "cool kids" in DC, but he said what he needed to say to get a bloc of strict interpretation voters and a bloc of religious voters (who overlap to some extent). He still needs them both, but in the end he is going to have to choose between his adoring "conservative/religious" supporters and the establishment. I think I know who wins when the push becomes the shove.
Mr. niteowl77
niteow177, Cruz has been slick.