David Brooks warns of ‘the rise of Ted Cruz-ism,’ takeover of Republican Party (that's a bad thing?)

The Daily Caller ^ | 09/14/2013 | Jeff Poor

[Sparticus]

Well, duh, Dave. You act as if that's a bad thing. Cruz and his allies intend to drag the GOP back to conservative principals. Passing no legislation is better than poor legislation. We've had too much compromise for much too long, and going along to get along is not a viable way forward.

[mylife]

Oh noes! Somebody is gonna threaten your comfy position?

Go Ted! Go!

[Pharmboy]

David just wants to insure he keeps getting those invites to the upper west side dinner parties.

Memo to Mr. Brooks: we've had quite enough of your democrap-lite version of Republicanism. Just go away.

Thank yew...

PS: They all are REALLY scared of Senator Cruz. He's quite brilliant and they know it.

[ClearCase_guy]

Brooks is a porch monkey. The Democrats keep him around so they can trot him out as a "Conservative Commentator". The truth is that Brooks hates and fears Republicans.

I used to hear Brooks debate EJ Dionne on NPR. Believe it or not, Dionne tended to be more critical of Obama -- he saw room for the president to improve. Not Brooks! No, no! As far as David was concerned, Obama achieved perfection on a daily basis and pretty much walked on water -- that was his "Conservative" viewpoint.

[3Fingas]

Cruzism > Brooksism

[2ndDivisionVet]

Cruz/Palin or Palin/Cruz.

[mylife]

[max americana]

“but a means to take over the Republican Party.”

SCARY!!! sarc/

[LegendHasIt]

Cruz (and a very few others) threaten a RETURN to the old traditional Republican Party.

Which is why pseudo-conservative elitist Washington Beltway statist sycophant DIABLOS* like Brooks hate him /them.

*Democrat In All But Name Only...Conservatives are the real RINOs anymore.

[Inwoodian]

Repeal of bad laws is a noble endeavor of a Legislator.

[mylife]

We are right over the target.

[mylife]

Brooks cannot stand that Ted us not beholden to the machine.

[mylife]

“What’s going on in the House, and a bit in the Senate, too, is what you might call the rise of Ted Cruz-ism,”

Go Ted! Go!

[JRandomFreeper]

Cruz is doing exactly what I wanted him to do when I voted for him. He's shaking things up.

/johnny

[mylife]

One man standing on the principal that he represents many.

I applaud Cruz for standing for his constituents and not cowing to the power brokers that sell us out.

Oh, there are gonna be some black eyes, but the bullies will get the message if Ted stays on track.

[LegendHasIt]

DUH:

*Democrat In All But Name Only

Should read:

Democrat In All But Label Only.

[Irenic]

Woot! Woot! Go Cruz!

[mylife]

I say we give the man a medal.

[jeffc]

And the Left ("news" media included) laughed and laughed at us (and still does) about the evilness of King Zero and his merry and of court jesters.

But, someone gets some press for castigating liberals and look out! The Left gets all in a tizzy and tries to marginalize the person. Shows what they are really afraid of.

[SunkenCiv]

Ted Cruz: ...a United Nations Security Council vote condemning Syria for attacking its own citizens with chemical weapons... "would unify the world against the regime and expose China’s and Russia’s support for this tyrant... we should make them veto it on the world stage... And if they do veto it, we should respond by, with respect to Russia, we should reinstate the anti-ballistic missile station in Eastern Europe that was canceled at the beginning of the Obama administration to appease Russia, and with respect to China, we should go through with selling the new F-16s to Taiwan that again this administration put the kibosh [on]." [Tea party friction: Sen. Rand Paul lashes Ted Cruz approach to Russia and China (s/b 'Rand Paul calls for appeasement while continuing to pretend to oppose Obama')]