Ted Cruz Endorses Donald Trump for President...45 days before the election, there is a great disturbance in the Force.
Pound...pound...pound.
There goes another nail in Hillary's election coffin. It's another sign of Hillary's possible Mitt Romney moment. Of course it's just a theory, and we won't know if it's real until after the election.
Let's take a walk back to May 3, 2016, Cruz drops out of the race–refuses to endorse Trump. Matter of fact, Teddy, doing his best imitation of St. Peter, kept denying Trump his endorsement. This went on all summer, past the GOP convention, where he again denied Trump his endorsement, right up until now–45 days before the election. Why would Cruz suddenly get cold feet and now decide to kiss the ring of the master now?
Maybe he suddenly woke up to the fact that should Trump win the election, Trump scores a twofer. Not only does Trump close the book on the Clintons, but he also gets to kneecap Cruz in the process and close the book on his presidential aspirations too.
Evangelicals love Peter, but they aren't really big on Judas. The real point is that Cruz lost faith in Hillary's chances so his calculated risk isn't so calculated. He knows he's got to seek forgiveness from the Master while there is still time because once the last ballot is counted and the results are not for Her, he's a dead duck. Cruz may be just the first of the establishment who suddenly, quietly start hedging their bets.
There is a lot at stake here, this is going to be an election for the ages. If Hillary wins then the Clintons will go down in history as the greatest power couple in American history. If Trump wins, we have a new power broker, Donald Trump will hold all the cards and we can look forward to some messy conservative politics for a few years as Trump carves out his world and does what any good leader does, silence his competition. Cruz realizes he is still at risk of a political long knife, but should he not have acted, he was guaranteed one which might take away all his trappings of power. One thing for certain, Cruz now realizes he is owned. The only question remaining is how sore are Cruz's knees and how much has he had to swallow? What dirty deed is St. Teddy on the hook for? I doubt that Cruz will be the rock where Trump builds his empire, but he still might be useful.
Hillary and the DNC are maybe starting to realize that this election isn't the slam dunk they’ve been preaching. There were plenty of warnings that this election wasn't going to be a good year for the establishment. Heck, the Koch's even pulled their money out instead of wasting it on a political Gallipoli. We also need to remember that the GOP didn't want Trump either. Why did the DNC decide they could do something that the GOP establishment couldn't do...reel in Trump?
The arrogance of the party leadership is breathtaking. They should have figured something was a foot when they had to put their thumb on the scale to ensure that Bernie lost. Bernie would have been a better candidate for this election because he wasn't establishment and his ideas were new. He wasn't going to get his vision passed, but unless cats and dogs start sleeping together, I highly doubt Clinton would have either. If Hillary loses, it won't be her fault, she is who she is; it will be because the DNC brought a knife (albeit a sharp one) to a gun fight.