Mark Levin and Breitbart love it. Expect Cruz to surge to the top of the GOP primary polls now.
Yeah right. This forum, in the interest of bashing the GOP, epically overrates how fringe the Republican primary electorate is. Last I checked, some of our most recent nominees have been Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W. Bush and Bob Dole. Say what you want about any of them, but none are extremists, and if somebody thinks that they are, then he or she is probably the one who's extreme in their views.
The Rise of the Teabaggers happened in 2009. McCain, Bush, and Dole's nominations are irrelevant to discussion. As for 2012, Romney was nominated because he outspent heavily, and was unified in moderate support, whereas right wing support was divided between economic minded Gingrich and the social minded Santorum. Cruz bridges the wackjob gap.
In a primary of Jeb vs. Cruz vs. Paul, Cruz wins.
