Talk shows did NOT defeat Cantor. That is an actual psychotic POV. It was Brat and his tireless army of foot soldiers who defeated Cantor. Your narrative is as detached from reality as anything I’ve ever witnessed. Cruz didn’t campaign for Brat. He didn’t contribute money. He merely sat on the sidelines, as did Lee. How DARE you take the blood, sweat and tears of Brat and his supporters and blithely give Cruz credit for them? You’re as bad as he is: taking other people’s accomplishments and pretending they belong to Cruz. It’s an abomination.
Brat is awesome. I'm sure his people worked very hard to get him elected. However, the anti-establishment, anti-leadership, anti-incumbent, anti-Boehner, anti-Cantor environment that he was elected in did not just happen in a vacuum. Cruz and others were taking arrows for 2 years, actively fighting their own leadership, getting murdered in the press, being villainized by their own party. To simply dismiss it, is an abomination on your part.
From 2014...
http://www.rollcall.com/218/cruz-secret-meeting-for-house-conservatives-boehner-immigration-topics/
http://www.rollcall.com/218/ted-cruz-house-republicans-meet-in-secret-at-tortilla-coast/