It had nothing to do with "joining a mob". It proves, yet again, Ted Cruz is incapable of being a team player, of fighting for a greater good outside his personal ambitions---and everything he has done this year, including last night, is about him--first, last and always.
The people have proven they can embrace someone who has lost an election, but not a sore loser. Last night Cruz proved he's the loser whose self-interest is above the country's in such a deliberate and obvious way at the moment we are fighting for our survival.
If the Republicans lose in November, he now carries the stain. If the Republicans win in November, he will be marginalized even more than he is now. The reported smartest man in the room has proved he is not.
Respectfully, RIV, that's ridiculous. Cruz didn't urge anyone not to vote for Trump. He made clear in stark terms the stakes this election, and urged all who were listening to get out and vote in November, up and down the ticket. And Cruz unequivocally endorsed Trump's major themes of keeping dangerous immigrants out and building "the wall".
As much as you'd like to think it so, it is no diss of Trump or anyone else to urge all Americans to vote their consciences. You're voting your conscience, aren't you? Why shouldn't we all?
You can't dismiss the reality that Trump treated Cruz and his family very badly during the primaries. Cruz did everything a reasonable man could be expected to do in his speech - he spoke not one bad word about the Republican nominee, and made exactly the kind of pitch - a passionate apologia for liberty- centric and opportunity-centric government - that can and will unify the party,
if only the Trumpsters will let it .
The Trumpsters who booed Cruz are fools, but perhaps Trump himself is not. He should be MAGNANIMOUS in victory tonight, and should specifically thank Cruz for articulating so well the values that animate the Republican party. He should even consider recognizing the bad blood between them, and apologize for dissing Cruz's wife and dad. If he does that, he'll likely unify the party. If he doesn't, and proves yet again that it's all about him, then Hillary can start measuring the drapes.
