Opinion: Ted Cruz is the audacious, trash-talking, populist-style conservative the anti-government crowd has been praying for.
by F.T. Rea
Given what we’ve endured with the cultish adoration of conservative darlings such as Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Grover Norquist, Andrew Breitbart, Michele Bachmann, Jim DeMint, Christine “I’m not a witch” O’Donnell, Wayne LaPierre and so forth, Sen. Ted Cruz —“presidential hopeful”— had become Mr. Inevitable by the spring. Some observers might look at opinion polls and ask, “Who cares?” But Cruz’s potential isn’t being measured by those polls.…[ Read more ]