Give me your evidence for the “ego booster” and “make a name for himself” comments.
You, like the GOPe seem to feel that following through on campaign promises is somehow a bad thing. I find it admirable.
Why is it impossible for you to support Trump without trashing Cruz? Blame Trump supporters? Is there someone else doing the Cruz-bashing?
Anyone else who has worked with him hates him? You are CERTAIN of this? I call BS on that statement.
Well to be fair Ted used to have a friend in the senate, named Mike Lee of Utah.
However one day Ted did this to him:
Lee is also Cruz’s best friend—maybe his only friend—in the Senate. In his memoir, Cruz writes that no one stood by him “more courageously or indispensably” than Lee during his 21-hour anti-Obamacare speech that preceded the 2013 government shutdown. The pair have a joint fundraising committee and have posed together with a tiger-skin rug.
When Lee brought up his bill in the committee hearing, he wasn’t sure if he’d have Cruz’s support. But he certainly didn’t anticipate what came next.
Cruz attacked the bill as dangerous and politically poisonous. He said it would lead to more than 7,000 federal prisoners let out on the street. “I for one, at a time when police officers across this country are under assault right now, being vilified right now, when we’re seeing violent crime spiking in our cities across the country, I think it would be a serious mistake for the Senate to pass legislation providing for 7,082 criminals to be released early,” he said. The bill, he claimed, “could result in more violent criminals being let out on the streets, and potentially more lives being lost.”
Cruz went on to warn his fellow senators that if they voted for the bill, they would imperil their careers. “We know to an absolute certainty that an unfortunately high percentage of those offenders will go and commit subsequent crimes,” he said. “And every one of us who votes to release violent criminals from prison prior to the expiration of their sentence can fully expect to be held accountable by our constituents.” Essentially, Cruz was saying that the legislation would let dangerous people out of prison, they would commit more crimes, and the senators would be subject to Willie Horton-style attack ads.
Lee, who was sitting right next to Cruz, could not believe what he was hearing. The bill, he responded, wouldn’t actually release any violent criminals from prison, and its sentence reduction for gun crimes was to reduce the minimum for felons caught with guns or ammunition from 15 years to 10 years—a provision that had once sent a man to prison for 15 years when he picked up a stray bullet in order to clean a carpet. “It is simply incorrect to say that this suddenly releases a bunch of violent criminals. It is tougher on violent offenders,” Lee sputtered. “That statement is inaccurate…. We’re not letting out violent offenders. That is false.”
Lee’s communications director, Conn Carroll, confirmed to me that Lee and his staff had no advance warning that Cruz was planning to brutally attack—and, in Lee’s view, misrepresent—his friend’s bill. “Going into that hearing, we definitely thought it was in the realm of possibility he would come out against it, just not with that kind of colorful language,” Carroll told me. The bill made it out of committee that day, but now it appears to be in trouble, with several other Republican senators taking Cruz’s line against it at a Senate lunch last week.
Today, Lee has conspicuously joined every other sitting senator in declining to endorse Cruz’s presidential run. And while Lee and Cruz are still friends, the episode vividly illustrates Cruz’s talent for irritating other senators.
Source:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/why-dc-hates-ted-cruz/426915/
“Anyone else who has worked with him hates him?”
How senators have endorsed him? You trash Trump on his health care position, but don’t even know it..you can’t defend Cruz because you don’t know his position on health care.
Trump is saying that we have to have a way to care for people that are outside the system until they become part of the system. He said he will not allow people to “die in the streets” That’s exactly what he said.
Now what part of that do you disagree with?
And just WHAT did it actually accomplish? NOTHING.....it was just puffery!
Ted voted for the Corker Bill, the TPA, did NOTHING at all re the Mississippi Scandal. And he LIES; he lies about EVERYTHING! He has been lying for years! He lies by both omission and commission. He NEVER told the people of Texas that he was born in Texas and lived there for the first 4 years of his life, nor that he had Canadian Citizenship.
He told the people of Texas that he and Heidi had liquidated ALL of their assets, to fund his Senatorial campaign. THAT WAS A LIE! He took out two different HUGE loans, from two different banks ( sweetheart loans, at that !)and even conveniently "forgot" to put it down on a REQUIRED FEC statement. He and Heidi NEVER "liquidated" all of their assets.
What I have posted are facts, NOT "trashing" and I've left out all of the lies he has told, repeatedly about Trump and other things.
But for some reason, you believe that it is completely unnecessary, perhaps even uncalled for, to post facts about Cruz and that everyone who sees him clearly, are just nasty people. *shrugs*
Actually, that's pretty well established. George Bush has openly said he doesn't like Cruz. "I just don't like the guy", and that sentiment seems to repeat itself through several employers. I've also heard the same thing regarding Ted Cruz from his Senate colleagues, and also some pre-Senate employers.
I believe the dislike, in some cases, has to do with conceit, arrogance, and blind ambition, some of which I believe we've seen for ourselves.
So if you check the record, I think you can pretty easily identify a pattern here with Cruz's "likability".
I mean, look at the Jeff Sessions situation. Here they are supposed to be good friends and close colleagues, and yet Sessions ends up in the Trump camp.
Even Carly Fiorina, his running mate, said "Ted Cruz will say or do anything to win" as recently as January of this year (or words to that effect).
So it seems there could indeed be some truth to these notions.
Let Ted Cruz settle down with some of these issues and try again in 4 or 8 years...
Vote Trump
You made your point already. When I think of ‘redundancy’ now I can look through this thread and see your posting. Give it a rest. You’re getting as obnoxious as Ted. It’s not heroic.