Edit: In 2016, the Republican establishment wanted to rally around someone who would protect their interests against Trump. Problem for them was that the #2 in the Republican primary polls was Ted Cruz who was no ally of the establishment. So the establishment waffled around in TDS failing to provide a real offer to the people. Trump cornered the populist market in the Primary, choking out Ted Cruz's constitutionalist appeal (The constitution is for the people, so there's the overlap).
Losing to Trump made him find his balls. If he was anything like this back then, the 2016 primaries would have been a lot more interesting.
Ted was so painfully fake beforehand because he was trying to hold back the Lion, thinking he needed to be prim and proper.
Now he got beard and >sips, and let's loose much more.
I dunno. Doing a solid 21 hour filibuster against Obamacare back in 2013 is pretty ballsy.
Edit: In 2016, the Republican establishment wanted to rally around someone who would protect their interests against Trump. Problem for them was that the #2 in the Republican primary polls was Ted Cruz who was no ally of the establishment. So the establishment waffled around in TDS failing to provide a real offer to the people. Trump cornered the populist market in the Primary, choking out Ted Cruz's constitutionalist appeal (The constitution is for the people, so there's the overlap).
Considering the top 3 most hated men in Washington, D.C. right now are, in order:
Donald John Trump, 45th President of these United States
Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky
Rafael 'Ted' Cruz, Senator from Texas
I think that would be a decent choice.