"That's why this Cruz thing is such a game-changer".
And I just wrote the column that week that I had left the Republican Party, but that I was going to start a Colorado Independents for Cruz thing.
In Tampa, a week earlier, Cruz described things differently.
I was craving to talk about different things," Cruz says.
It's one of the few things Cruz has done in Congress that has had real consequences.
While her face contains no secrets, Cruz herself plays things close to the vest: She won't talk about her marriage to Javier Bardem, about their two young children together, about the movie she made or the one she has coming up.
But one thing should be clear: endorsing Trump is about the most mainstream Republican thing Cruz has done in a long time.
"I've been consistent, that's the thing," Cruz said.
While I could personally look with equanimity upon the idea of a world without golf courses, the thing Cruz was talking about is actually a vague, nonbinding resolution that's more than 20 years old.
And, not to be high-roaded by the whole "benefit veterans" thing, Cruz's Super PAC has offered to give $1.5 million to veterans' charities if Trump says yes to Cruz's face-off.
