Andrew Sullivan's offering a roundup of opinion on Ted Cruz's viability (a word that became attached to presidential hopefuls' prospects in the early 1970s, perhaps after Rose v. wade put it into currency), and the lookin's not good:
Jonathan Bernstein no longer considers Ted Cruz a viable presidential candidate:
It’s one thing to have a reputation as a loudmouth; it’s quite another to have a reputation as a loser. That’s what the shutdown fight has done to Cruz. Among true believers he’ll be the one who was a leader in a fight that surely would have won if the squishes hadn’t sold them out. But for most party actors, including many sympathetic to Tea Partyism, he’s going to be the guy who ran up the wrong hill.
Larison nods:
What may hurt Cruz’s prospects as a presidential candidate most is the fact that he will not or cannot acknowledge that he was wrong in promoting his failed strategy. As if to prove how oblivious to political reality he is, he was at it again today in his speech this morning.
Barro marvels at Cruz’s complete detachment from reality.
And then there's the fact Cruz was born in Canada, which should, according to mysobamanists on the right, should be getting him impeached from the senate already.
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