Sen. Ted Cruz warns next 20 months will resemble 'The Lord of the Flies'

Brett T. | 5:05 PM on April 18, 2015

A full slate of Republican presidential hopefuls gathered in New Hampshire this week to introduce themselves to voters through brief speeches at the “first in the nation” Republican Leadership Summit. Most participants didn’t hesitate to take swipes at both President Obama and Hillary Clinton, while Gov. Mike Huckabee urged his colleagues to present a united front of leadership.

.@GovMikeHuckabee – "We have to show we can lead, not savage each other… we have to unite." #FITN pic.twitter.com/gZNYZ5XUVR

— Alice Stewart (@alicetweet) April 18, 2015

But it was Sen. Ted Cruz, speaking last, who warned that the next 20 months of the campaign season are going to resemble “The Lord of the Flies.”

Ted Cruz: "The next 20 are going to be a Hobbesian state of nature. It’s going to be like Lord of Flies. But…January 2017 is coming."

— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) April 18, 2015

Cruz: "The next 20 months are going to be like a Hobbesian state of nature, it's going to be like lord of the flies."

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 18, 2015

Cruz: The presidential campaign is going "to be like Lord of the Flies." Also: Hobbesian

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) April 18, 2015

HOBBESIAN!!!

— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) April 18, 2015

@SooperMexican caught that, did ya?

— thetreyman (@thetreymanhere) April 18, 2015

@ZekeJMiller And, as Hobbes predicted, the Cruz candidacy will be "solitary, nasty, brutish and short".

— MeetingOfMinds (@KalleeMerra) April 18, 2015