As I said it on Facebook, I will say it again.  Ted Cruz is done politically.  This was before he was mathematically eliminated from winning the GOP Nomination, before the Republican convention.  On Monday he announced to team up with Ohio Governor John Kasich to essentially screw Donald Trump from earning the 1237 delegates needed to avoid a contested convention.  The allure for voting Senator Ted Cruz from Texas is that he was considered an outsider who neither party liked in the upper chamber.  Now that he teamed up with Kasich, this shows that Cruz is establishment-enough to keep Donald Trump out of the Republicans own Bushwood Country Club. 

                If Ted Cruz wanted to continue his reputation as the outsider whom nobody from either party likes, wouldn’t he decide to drop out of the race today?  Today being the day after Donald Trump mathematically eliminated Ted Cruz from winning the GOP Nomination.  If Ted Cruz thought about reelection for his senate seat in 2018, wouldn’t he decide not to team up with John Kasich?  Kasich’s reasoning behind staying in the race is to extort a political favor from whoever the GOP Nomination will be, after the Ohio Governor won his home state on March 15th.
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                So what is Ted Cruz’s reasoning behind staying in the race?  Not only staying in the race, but nominating Carly Fiorina as his Vice-Presidential Running Mate?  Again as I typed earlier Cruz is establishment-enough with his wife married to Goldman Sachs and his wife and him working for W campaign during the Bush v. Gore case.  The Judge Smails and Dr. Beepers of the GOP Establishment are probably offering Cruz some political kickbacks to stay in the race.  But I do not see Ted Cruz’s future being in elected office after 2018.