(GrasstopsUSA) -- Former Senator Rick Santorum tells a story about his 2012 campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. A group of deep-pocket donors called the Republican candidates to New York to be vetted. Santorum found it odd that all of the questions on social issues were directed at him.
Finally he said to the donors: "Why are you only asking me about abortion and marriage? My opponents all have the same positions," to which one responded: "Yes, but you mean it."
That's what scares the left and its media myrmidons the most about Ted Cruz – that he's not Romney '08, who dressed in conservative drag to seduce the party base. With the Texan, what you see is what you get.
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The media response to Cruz's first-out-of-the gate announcement was painfully predictable.