Rewind: The real story of why turncoat Republicans hate Ted Cruz

There’s a reason former House Speaker John Boehner called Sen. Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” and many of his Senate colleagues have been only slightly less charitble in their remarks about the renegade Texas conservative. Rather ironically, RINO Republican Sen. Dan Coats summed it up succinctly when he said, “An awful lot of us really didn’t like to be targeted as corrupt, establishment bought by the lobby establishment.” Which, of course, is exactly what they are. Cruz spoke truth to their treachery in an epic Senate soliloquy on September 28 of last year: