Cruzites
Cruzites are people who pretend that Ted Cruz is a sincere conservative and then demand that everyone else support Cruz for president, sometimes using Leftist tactics to coerce others.
Cruzites believe that Cruz's birth in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to a U.S. citizen mother and a Cuban-born father qualifies Cruz as a natural born citizen, and Cruzites are in liberal denial about the mathematical elimination of Cruz from any possibility of winning on the first ballot.
Cruzites include in their ranks people who are not conservative, such as Establishment types who are merely using Cruz as a tool to try to stop Donald Trump from being the 2016 Republican nominee for President of the United States. Neocons have also flocked to Cruz based on his pro-war stance towards the Middle East.
Cruzites tend to support a Con Con, which would be a new constitutional convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution or propose numerous amendments to it. For example, a co-chair of the Cruz campaign, Rep. Eric Burlison, is the sponsor of the Con Con bill in Missouri, HCR 57.
Deception in Delegate Selection
Cruz supporters obtained election as delegates for Donald Trump, in the hope that they would be able to vote for Cruz instead on a second ballot. This deception prevented some Trump supporters from becoming delegates to the Republican National Convention. Indeed, some states have no laws preventing "pledged" delegates from voting for a different candidate on the first ballot either.
Gary Hart and John Edwards analogies
The Democrat Party had candidates analogous to Ted Cruz with Gary Hart in 1984 and 1988, and John Edwards in 2004.[1] Neither was ever elected president or ever even won the nomination of their party for president.