Even if Cruz said all the right things, it is not enough simply to say them.
You're assuming that Cruz was a "good candidate" in the first place; however, events would indicate otherwise. Cruz's problem was that, when attacked, he seemed smaller when he needed to seem bigger: not the sort of man you want as the leader of the free world.
On that count, a comparison of Cruz to Reagan is not flattering. Reagan, too, was attacked despicably by the media and the GOP establishment. However, he had the both the background and personal qualities that allowed him to absorb the attacks -- he handled the attacks in a way that made the other guys seem small.
That's not correct. Reagan became the GOP presidential nominee over the strident objections of the GOP establishment of the day (the so-called Rockefeller wing of the party). He did so by building both an intellectual platform and a political machine that was able to beard the establishment lion in its den. Reagan's candidacy was the culmination of years of patient effort by Reagan and by a host of others. Contrast to Cruz (or Obama), who announced his candidacy for president after only a couple of years in the Senate.
You've used a bunch of terms that have no clear meaning; most particularly, "the principles we consider inviolate." I submit that the GOP no longer recognizes any such principles; nor, apparently, do "conservatives."
@r9etb @Doug LossThe ONLY reason Reagan was ALLOWED any tv face time is because the eastern elites took his folksy ways as proof he was an ignorant rube,and they thought allowing him air time would further harm the credibility of the GOP amongst the unaffiliated voters. They really and truly thought Reagan was a dummy,and were certain THEY were so revered by the typical retarded
murikan voters that they would jump in on the media/leftist side and make fun of Reagan for being a simpleton,and by extension,making conservatives look like simpletons. After all,look at the job they had done on Barry Goldwater just a few years earlier.
Their arrogance backfired on them. Reagan,the dummy,and the conservative voters were a match made in heaven,and came damn close to destroying the power of the left. They only survived to this day by switching parties so they could weaken and corrupt the conservative message,
Plus saddling Reagan with that evil bastard Poppy Bush didn't help,either.
Face it,the very same voters that put Reagan in office and voted in Republicans to take over control of the US Congress for the first time in 40 years haven't really had a reason to vote again since Reagan left office and the Dims took over he RNC.
