Cruz won’t win the next states. Cruz did relatively well on Super Tuesday because that day’s contests were skewed toward his Southern evangelical base. But the upcoming contests aren’t in Southern evangelical states, and in those states, Cruz is likely to underperform and Rubio to outperform…

Rubio can win. Sorry, but Ted Cruz’s belief that you can win in 2016 with the 2004 playbook of turning out those phantom “millions of conservatives” who “stayed home” is a fantasy. Not going to happen. Beating Trump with an unelectable general election candidate would still salvage some of what’s left of the party’s honor, but if we have the option of a non-Trump candidate who can also win a general election, then we should definitely take it.

Ted Cruz’s entire candidacy and public persona is premised on the idea that he’s the only one who puts principle above all. Many conservatives have long suspected that it’s all an act, and that what Ted Cruz puts above all is Ted Cruz. Now he has an opportunity to prove us wrong, and do a great thing for his country. He should seize it.