Last night, Donald Trump got exactly the kind of television show he intended at the Republican National Convention. Ted Cruz bet his career on distancing himself from the Trump candidacy with his speech.  He was gambling that Trump will lose big, and that in 2020 a repentant party will turn to the constitutionalist standard-bearer it mistakenly shunned, intoxicated under the spell cast by Trump.  In this narrative, Cruz suffers the slings and arrows but in retrospect will be seen as principled and wise. The slings and arrows part has already started.  The moment Cruz told the convention-goers to vote their conscience, spontaneous boos broke out:    Lest the TV sound favor the podium, here is an account of what it was like in the back of the house, from lefty site Vox.  Libby Nelson writes: As Cruz told the attendees at the Republican National Convention to vote up and down the ticket, the chants started to ring out: "Go...(Read Full Post)