Maureen Dowd gave it her special twist – – “…soon Cruz began to seem like the guy who comes to your book party and starts brandishing his own book”
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I didn’t need another night of an arena shouting “Lock her up” at the nominee of the other party (a first in itself), nor another 5 hours of fear and doom with no plan (does this political party have one beyond hating Hillary Clinton?), but I did want to hear Ted Cruz, just to see if he might get past his own ego to endorse the man who trounced him in the primary run.
Instead, this senator, whose naked ambition and 24/7 focus on himself made 
him a loathed member of the U.S. Senate, used his time to deliver the first campaign speech of his run for the presidency in 2020.
There was no endorsement of Donald Trump. Cruz hardly mentioned the GOP presidential candidate. He tossed out the usual distortions re Clinton – the false take on “What difference does it make now?,” which was about the causes of the Benghazi attack, not an indifference to the American deaths; and re Obama, the careless lie that he’s importing ISIS terrorists – but gave nothing at all to Trump.
Maureen Dowd gave it her special twist – – “…soon Cruz began to seem like the guy who comes to your book party and starts brandishing his own book” – defining Ted Cruz in a single sentence.
But karma works some of the time, and blew up over Cruz’s slicked down hair tonight. Furious at his refusal to endorse the nominee, Trump’s legions booed him off the stage. Trump himself walked in, scowling, stealing the TV cameras, and the crowd, away from Cruz. He and Heidi barely got out alive.
So perhaps there’s a positive in all the numbing negativity of this convention – Ted Cruz may have buried himself politically by focusing on his own ambition in the wrong place at the wrong time.