On Wednesday night Ted Cruz was booed off the stage at the Republican National Convention for failing to throw his support behind Donald Trump.
Now many, including Larry Kudlow here, are saying his career is finished:
I was in the convention hall and the crowd's reaction was unbelievable. It started out as a few hands waving in the air and some booing and then it just grew and grew throughout the entire convention hall. And then boom! It was absolute bedlam.
I've been to most of the GOP conventions since 1980, and I've never seen anything like it. These people stood on their feet and booed. These are Republicans! They don't do this. They don't know how to stand up and boo! And yet, Cruz so divided them and worked them into such a frenzy that it happened.
Cruz tried to pass it off as just the New York delegation acting up. But that is wrong. The whole hall was in an uproar. You couldn't even hear the last two paragraphs of Cruz's speech because the booing had reached such a crescendo!
Cruz left an absolute disaster in his wake when he finished that speech. ... Ted Cruz will never politically recover from this. His delegation from Texas wanted him to play ball with Trump - and he wouldn't. He was freelancing in that speech. And that is why his political career is over. He's finished.
Paglia's prediction noted here.
