I think Cruz can take a pass on this one. He has been out there fighting the good fight and taking arrows from every place. If he decides to run for Prez - then he has to keep his ammo dry in hopes to get the GOPe on board. Simple as that, IMO. Some on here want others to shoot of their mouth at every opportunity - that isn’t always the smart thing to do. Sarah can do this because she isn’t in office nor running for one right now. Cruz is just being polite and I seriously doubt he wanted Thad to win. Once again - just my opinion.\\
I doubt it either, but this was such a spit in the face of the base, it warranted some condemnation of Thad. What would it really have hurt if Cruz had just called him what he is, ‘an old senile b*astard’?
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I think Cruz can take a pass on this one. He has been out there fighting the good fight and taking arrows from every place. If he decides to run for Prez - then he has to keep his ammo dry in hopes to get the GOPe on board. Simple as that, IMO. Some on here want others to shoot of their mouth at every opportunity - that isn’t always the smart thing to do. Sarah can do this because she isn’t in office nor running for one right now. Cruz is just being polite and I seriously doubt he wanted Thad to win. Once again - just my opinion.\\
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Even though I would prefer Ted refrain from publicly saying anything congratulatory about Cochran at this point, I do fully agree with your stance.
You’re probably right. I’m not going to abandon Cruz over this. However, I do think this illustrates a fundamental error conservatives are making. There’s a huge, ungodly tyranny taking over the country. It’s overtly Communist and it’s stated goal is to completely rearrange, deface America. The crony capitalists (the only constituent the GOP cares about) sees it and is paying to play. Our error is thinking this is still about winning elections. Cochran showed that winning elections is impossible.
Whatever Cruz’s highest aspirations are, there’s no way he can be affective in that role. That is, if his goal is to liberate us. So while Cruz thinks he needs to play nice to become president, what good will that do within a system that keeps Cochran in government? If he understood this, he would be screaming like we are. I think it’s time for vote no confidence and walk out. Work for state sovereignty and purge the states of federal bureaucrats.
Conservative politicians have their place, don’t you know?
They have to be perfect in the eye of the media, their uninformed viewers and in all aspects of their lives.
While in that realm, if they are considered or considering the presidency, they must be perfect every day every minute, in every thing they do and say, and if it can be viewed by liberals as controversial, many on the right will turn their backs on him.
If what the guy says can be viewed in any way as supporting a liberal, a democrat, or GOP-E-r, many in the right wing mainstream will turn their backs on him.
He has to be perfect.
Of course they’ve been burned by so many weaklings in the GOP, so there’s some pass issuance.
But Ted must be perfect. And if he’s correct, such as in not entering into the fray of Mississippi politics, which is Louisiana like in its family, generational, back stabbing back room, elitist, nuanced insider qualities, after being baited by some news babe taunting him to get in there and fix it, then the back turning will be ugly.
Agreed. Cruz took the position of not going after colleagues in their incumbent races earlier in the primaries. He is staying consistent. He cannot accomplish anything if he does not find a way to pull more senators to his side.
Finally, a post(others like this one) of sound reasoning and calm.