When I first heard anything about Cruz, I thought he was a good guy and a principled conservative. I loved his standing up to the establishment Republicans. However, the first time I saw him and heard him speak, he immediately jumped to a 9 on the Weasel Scale. Everything about Cruz is phony, from the way he scrunches up his eyebrows in fake sincerity to the way he tells tear-jerking stories one after the other. He gives me the creeps.