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Cruz was allowed to flourish because he hurts the chances of anyone in the 2 factions of the party the establishment competes with.  He arguably draws from libertarians and conservatives (evangelicals) of the party.  With everyone fighting for a piece of that pie the establishment can get very dismal numbers and win contests.  That has always been the point.  Cruz and Trump in the race hurt a more pure libertarian Rand because they draw the populists and the evangelicals that maybe be attracted to libertarian ideas on some issues.  However many of these candidates have huge negatives that once exposed to them the voters will quickly recoil.

I think the elegibility issue was bound to come up but the question was when.  Trump jumped the gun which is good for a Rand Paul supporter.  The idea is that now people may leave Cruz out of shock and gather under people with very small numbers so that once again you don't have huge numbers at the top but a tight race for double digits (12-15% respectively).  Bush at this point needs 6 people competing for the crown hence the upcoming debate format to allow 6 "distinct" demographics for people to choose from.  Bush wraps up the establishment vote which has to be in the Romney range 15-20% maybe in Iowa.  Trust me when I say the numbers are totally off.  Look at the historic numbers in Iowa and you will see that the polls are always wrong and things change almost even up to the last 24 hours.  The point is to pull off 3K voters who have no clue game night.