re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
And more recently in history, we can point to Sarah Palin, Joni Ernst, Sharron Angle, etc. as examples.
It does really seem that when the party of old white Christian men take on tokens, the tokens are exceedingly insane. Not just the aforementioned women, but think of African-American GOPers these days: no more Colin Powell or even JC Watts. Just bug-eyed lunatics like Ben Carson and Allen West.
If the pattern holds, they should be trotting out a few nutcases named “Martinez” or “Gonzalez” to go along with the “Cruz” they already have.