Stupidity is one thing. Cruz or any other Republican opportunist turning this into a "big government/Obamacare/New World Order" argument requires black-helicopter crazy. Fact of the matter is, the financial system is effectively untouched from where it was in 2007 which means they'd need to argue that the Democrats didn't do enough to regulate the financial industry. That's a Bernie Sanders argument, not a Ted Cruz. It is 180 degrees ideologically from the brand of economic talking points that have belonged to the Republicans for generations.

You have to go so deep into Rand Paul territory on this one to turn it into a right-wing argument that the only people likely to vote for it are the ones that don't vote because they don't want to end up a list because internment camps and chemtrails.

I know you're worried about Ted Cruz. Don't. Not only is he evangelically batshit, he's uncharismatic and fervently disliked by everyone. That he won Iowa doesn't speak to his strength, it speaks to the general weakness of the field.

At this point in Election 2012, Newt Gingrich's moon base was less than a week old. In my opinion, that was high-water crazy for the Republican field. As Craig Mazin put it, Ted Cruz just won "the Santorum-Huckabee prize." Talk to me when he's on the ballot and facing a non-hypothetical opponent.