Ted Cruz may wind up becoming Donald Trump's greatest weapon.<br />The Republican establishment has spent the last few months warning that the rise of Trump's presidential candidacy represented a grave threat, not just to the party, but to the country itself.<br />But in recent weeks, the GOP brass has come face to face with the one man who could make Trump begin to appear appealing: Ted Cruz.<br />"Cruz has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way in D.C., whereas Trump hasn't, and Trump up until this year was pretty much a player," said Craig Shirley, a longtime GOP strategist and charter member of the establishment.<br />But, mainly, the reason that Republican leaders are moving toward Trump has nothing to do with him.<br />They viscerally, unashamedly loathe Cruz.
