Posted on 10/20/2013 1:53:43 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, returned home to a rousing welcome in Texas on Saturday after his attempt to derail Obamacare with a shutdown of the federal government led to sharp criticism of his tactics as reckless and futile.
"After two months in Washington, it's great to be back in America," Cruz joked in speaking to a crowd of about 750 people in a packed downtown San Antonio hotel ballroom.
Cruz was greeted with an eight-minute standing ovation in an appearance organized by the Texas Federation of Republican Women. People in attendance, many of them wearing red to show their support for keeping Texas a conservative-leaning state, lined up to greet him.
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He’s a diamond in the rough.
Indeed.
All Senators and Reps should be forced to spend at least half the year in the states/districts. One of the main problems is once in DC they don’t feel the heat due to the party schedule.
“...There are Republican gray beards that make the point, Lets let this collapse, he said....”
Greybeard RINOs with a Yellow Streak a Mile Wide running up their backs.
I’ll stand with Ted.
He spoke up for “The Little Guy”. For Mom and Pop America.
He spoke up for those of us who our Public Servants so callously ignore and disregard and who blatantly show us their middle finger.
He spoke for me. I won’t forget it.
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