A Cruz nomination should scare a lot of folks into voting Democratic! And it should motivate Democrats to VOTE.
Probably another Goldwater style debacle for the Reps.
However…what if he actually wins? He could.
Hillary ran a pretty poor campaign in 08. She was a shoo-in and found a way to lose. Sure Obama was inspiring, but if she ran even a moderately effective campaign he would not have had an opportunity for the nomination.
I can imagine Cruz actually winning if whoever is the Democratic nominee makes a serious blunder or two. The media is biased towards the Republicans and will put lipstick on the Cruz pig and present him as some sort of middle of the road Christian moderate or something. Birthers were hounding Obama for years, but they will find a way around Cruz not being a natural born citizen. Hypocrisy never stops them.
The vast majority of Americans today have never heard of Cruz. They think Cruz is a car.
How he is re-invented by advertising and enabled by the media will determine his fate.
Scary.