Former US Republican Party presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz used his time at the Republican Party Convention on Wednesday night to exact his revenge on Donald Trump for the vicious, insult-filled primary campaign earlier this year.

Invited to speak on the night that Trump's vice presidential running mate Mike Pence would speak, Cruz stole the show by going way over the time allotted to him - he spoke for 13 minutes past the ten minutes he was supposed to fill.  And then, when the time came for Cruz to announce he was endorsing Trump, he balked - Cruz refused to endorse the fascist demagogue, and instead urged Republicans to "vote your conscience", which is the slogan of the #NeverTrump movement of GOP diehards who oppose Trump's hostile takeover of the party.

The reaction was swift and biting.  The crowd in the arena booed, angry white men boiled over with middle aged rage, threats were exchanged.  Things got so hairy that security had to come to the rescue of Ted Cruz's wife Heidi, and escort her to safety as convention goers appeared ready to attack her.  Social media exploded with the bursting heads of batshyte conservatives offended by Ted's disloyalty to their new fuhrer.

For Cruz, it was personal.  No stranger to low brow mudslinging himself, Cruz was like most of the Republican Party caught off guard by Trump's constant insults and Twitter jibes during the primary campaign in the Spring.  Trump hung the tag "Lying Ted" on him, and it stuck.  Trump said Cruz's wife was ugly, and accused his father of taking part in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Trump acted in a more vile manner than any candidate since the 1800s; Cruz was a distant second in the race and dropped out before the final primary.

In true Pee Wee Herman fashion, Trump claimed he meant to do that (of course, he didn't).  Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton echoed the call for Republicans to "vote you conscience".

In the end, no one was talking about what Indiana Governor Mike Pence had to say in his acceptance speech to being nominated as Trump's running mate.  Not only was he drowned out by the Trump-Cruz feud, but social media had some serious questions about US talk radio personality Laura Ingraham who appeared to give a Heil Hitler salute to Trump.  Given the anti-immigration, anti-Black Lives Matter, fascist nature of the convention so far, few could rule out that she really may have meant it as it appeared.