Posted on 09/24/2013 3:28:55 PM PDT by Nachum
During a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, Texas senator Ted Cruz said that people who think his plan to defund Obamacare can't work would have opposed fighting Nazi Germany if they had been alive in the 1940s.
Cruz first argued that skeptics of the defund-or-shutdown plan would have surrendered during the American Revolution and the Civil War.
"I guarantee you all of the pundits that we see going on TV and intoning in deep baritone voices, 'this cannot be done,' if we were back in the 18th century, they would be going on, I don't know, maybe pigeon carriers or something, sending messages written somehow in dark ink, 'This cannot be done. You can't stand up to the British army--can't be done. It's impossible. Accept your subjugation. Accept your taxation without representation,'" Cruz said.
He turned to the Civil War and then to World War II.
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Oh brother.
When I heard him say this in C-SPAN I knew it would be taken out of context and use for headline.
I like Cruz and am inclined to support him if he runs for POTUS, but this “compare everything to the Nazis” meme has got to stop. It’s just stupid.
It takes enormous courage to stand up and do what is right, knowing full-well that your party will not only abandon you but side against you, that your words will be taken and twisted by a Marxist media, that you're work will go unappreciated by most.
Cruz knows all this, but still saddles up, buckles down and does the right thing.
“What I will remember isn’t the angry words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King
Cruz reminds me of Churchill, circa 1934. The lone “Voice in the Wilderness”.
What will the GOPe pansies say if Cruz starts reading from the DC phone book?
I’m for anything that pisses off the Democrats. It keeps them from coming up with even more stupid stuff.
would have opposed fighting Nazi Germany if they had been alive in the 1940s....
I guess he means if they had been around in the 1930’s
Is this the same Churchill that opposed a cross-channel invasion right up to D-Day itself? Churchill knew when to fight and when not to.
Cruz (and every other politician - hell, every other public speaker) ought to know that invoking anything having to do with the Nazis is going to be taken out of context and used against him. A Nazi comparison of any sort is just one of those things that is almost universally self-defeating.
Cruz talked not just about the challenge of overcoming the Nazis, but also about winning the revolutionary war, the civil war, and putting a man on the moon. In that context, the Nazi remark, is just one in a list of challenges.
I see we already have WussyCon PhonyCons whining about Cruz comparing Liberal RINOs to Nazi Collaborators....
The same kind of Sandbagging against Todd Akin is happening to Ted Cruz....and it’s the same Liberal Spineless PhonyCons
Some of you are so wuss...Hitler would not accept your collaboration. Go get em Cruz!
Oh, I know. I understand what Cruz was saying. You understand what Cruz was saying. Anyone who really looks at his comments understands what Cruz was saying. The problem is, when someone invokes a Nazi comparison in any context, many people just don't look past that.
His broader point was correct, of course. I just don't think he's helping his (our) cause by saying something that he ought to know is going to be used against him.
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