Why I will NEVER vote for Ted Cruz

First, as the blog name suggests, I am a democrat.  And while I am not partisan, and thus, open to voting for republicans given the right circumstances, there is ZERO chance I will ever vote for Ted Cruz.  If republicans want any chance of winning this race, they had better pick someone else, and here are the reasons:

Pretending to filibuster, then caving John Boehner style

This highlights the most real problem with Cruz, he is a phony.  A filibuster works by not giving up. Doesn't always work, I get that.  But Ted didn't even give it a full day, his real objective was to court the conservative vote, and unfortunately, that seems to have worked.  But the point is that it was about votes, not fighting the good fight.  He didn't expect to defeat Obamacare, he knew he had no chance.  He was simply saying "look at me, I'm standing up for you", but he wasn't.

If he couldn't get at least ONE other republican to help him filibuster, there were other options, like reading off their names to their constituents in a press conference (they already won't work with him), or telling his own constituents that he tried to stop it but that any one man filibuster is doomed to fail, cus, you know, human biology.  But he didn't, he needed to show himself making a stand, and that's the problem.  He was aiming for looking like a man of action, and not actually being one.

New York Values - Cruz hates non-conservatives

Yes I am a liberal, I have a right to exist.  Cruz doesn't think so, and I worry if he were ever president, what that would mean for anyone who isn't conservative.  He made it clear in that debate, that he does not like non-conservatives.  And that's his right, but I don't believe people who think that way should be leaders.

Embraces Glenn Beck

It's okay if some whack job endorses you, you can't control people and shouldn't try.  But there is a difference between being endorsed by a wacko, and embracing said wacko.

Voter Intimidation

Alright, let's pretend that this isn't illegal for a second.  Do we want a president who would do such things?  Now it is true that similar letters have been used by other campaigns in the past, the difference, though, is that they usually don't imply that the recipient broke the law in any way.  This is plain, simple bullying of the voter base, and if he's doing this as a candidate, what would he do as a president.

Inconsistency

Although he has tried to level this claim at Donald Trump for opinions he held 17 years ago, Cruz himself changes opinions constantly, like with the polling numbers.  In fact, in the past month, he has gone from hating the Ethanol thing, to loving, and back to hating it, WITHIN ONE MONTH, I think that's pretty significant.  Cruz supporters can not understand why he is compared to Hillary Clinton, but this is why.

They both change with polling numbers, it's all about getting votes, not standing on policies.