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Assumedly you are referring to Run's post above, but your interpretation of his post may be somewhat lacking. Cruz is being stabbed in the back, I mean how long did it take for him to get his first Senate endorsement, like 8 months into the campaign or something like that? Not that it makes any hay with me, but it's common knowledge that he is not liked up on the Hill. That's why anybody should be able to see that all his foot stomping and blowing smoke rings is for show. We will be very lucky to survive the present imperial administration, we don't need another. In any case, the imperatives and thundering on about what all he will do before the first sunset is about as likely as Obama playing nice until next January 20th.

I like the outsider message being sent to D.C., they don't. And because they don't, Cruz is completely on his own save for precious few who have broken ranks with the establishment to openly support him.

I agree with you on one thing. We do not need another imperial presidency, but that is exactly what a Trump presidency would be. Trump has far more in common with Obama than Cruz does. Trump judges people almost entirely on whether they like him or not. So does Obama, and that is why he has surrounded himself with such an incompetent, compliant group of advisers and Cabinet members.

Compare the campaign organizations that Cruz and Trump, have built. Trump has relied on his celebrity as a self promoting TV star and large pep rallies, while Cruz has been building a network of state campaign staff and volunteers since he announced that he was running. Only recently did Trump realize that he lacked a competent campaign staff that was unable to compete for delegate support with Cruz's professionals.

If getting along with people like McConnell matters to you, then Trump is your man. With $2 trillion budgets as far as the eye can see, Trump will have plenty of money to buy support, just as he did as a private citizen. I will always see that as corruption, but please feel free to consider it as getting along with Congressional leadership if you want. A Trump nomination will be a vote for a corrupt status quo, or worse.

People who stand on principle are rarely popular, but I have always preferred being right over being popular, which I see the choice of Cruz over Trump as a no-brainer.