GOP office holders and money men prefer Trump to Cruz

Steve M. asks, Why does the GOP establishment prefer Trump to Cruz?, and brushes past the answer.

Others just take the opportunity to hit the race button, again, but all refer to this story in the NYT to show the GOP establishment does, indeed, prefer Trump.

Get this straight.

Cruz is a solid conservative and so are the GOP office holders and the money men who love them.

But Cruz, besides not actually being eligible for the office, is the Senator No beloved of the conservative punditry that wants to beat the country into compliance with conservative demands that we dismantle a century of progressive achievement with repeated shutdowns, honestly convinced that the voters will always blame the Democrats.

Cruz has been and remains all in for shutdowns, and he was even for defaulting when the government came close to being unable to meet its obligations, convinced the country would blame the chaos on the intransigence of the Democrats, unwilling to give the conservatives what they want even at gunpoint.

But the bulk of the conservative office holding class and their leadership, judging by experience, believe otherwise.

And the money men don't want the economy trashed by fanatics, in any case.

Enter Trump, author of The Art of the Deal, and far from a true-blue conservative, anyway.

Clear enough?

PS.

One might ask why no one seems to be making anything of Cruz's constitutional ineligibility but Trump and Ann Coulter.

Good question.

Are Republicans shutting up about it out of tribal loyalty and fear of voter backlash?

Are Democrats sandbagging?