LOL! He’s trying to keep his base as broad as possible - best way to beat Hillary. Cruz has alienated all but the hardest core of “militant” conservatives and if he were to somehow steal the nomination, he would have to do the same with some of his rhetoric or get crushed by Hillary. Trump has very little he has to modify to stay competitive - he knows that the WH is the goal and slavering rhetoric that pleases the far right and the “God needs to smite thee” folks will not play in the General.
“I don ‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”–when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.’
Ronald Reagan
I agree - but times have changed and society has become more perverted with them. Reagan would have a tough row to hoe these days and would not be able to sweep the country. Like it or not, we need to take steps to mitigate the damage and start taking steps to rectify things because any sweeping changes will be met with so much howling about how it would hurt too many people that they would be pretty much doomed.
We didn't get here because of a lot of huge sweeping changes over a short period - we got here by a plodding, inch-by-inch agenda put forward by the Left and adopted by much of the "right" - sustained relentlessly over a 60 year or more period. It will take work, diligence, stamina and heart to move things in the right direction. Even Cruz, talking about his plan to change the tax codes and abolish the IRS, admitted it would be an uphill battle because of resistance across the board, when asked about it by an interviewer. He never pointed out the obvious until it was put to him on national TV with a blunt question about how he would do it - he didn't have a game plan because he knows it won't occur the way he seems to state it when he makes his statements about how he will revoke every word of Obama Care and abolish the IRS so we can do our taxes on a post card - reality bites but it is reality. If we don't have a realist in the WH, we might as well just let Hillary have her way. God said we will degenerate into a global cesspool before Christ comes back to set things right - may as well speed it along if we have too many idealistic expectations and aren't willing to work for it in the long haul...