Well with all the Cruz bots on Free Republic patting him on the back for voting for TPA, he can think that we all have his back. If you just look at the threads without the comments, it would look like Ted Cruz has about 95% support for his TPA vote. But if you look at the comments, it would appear that he has about 10% support and those people are only patting him on the back because he's Ted Cruz. I doubt if any of the people hawking the TPA on this forum would have done it if Ted Cruz had voted against it.
OK it's a done deal now. Ted Cruz will double down and cast another vote for diluting the power of the Senate and giving Obama more power. Ted Cruz will call the treaty an "agreement" even though it has the force and effect of a treaty and the TPP will pass by one vote and Ted Cruz will be a hypocrite and vote against it.
And everyone will cheer him as a Tea Party Hero. And the United States will continue its journey around the bowl and into the sewer of history.
Slow down, turbo! Not all of us "Cruz bots" are on board with this vote. In fact, some of us (such as myself) are currently considering this the final nail in the coffin for the GOP. If Cruz votes in favor of this, that'll be it. I WILL NOT give a single vote to the GOP, including Cruz, in 2016.
We have so few good candidates that I would like to give Cruz another chance if he changed his vote on TPA. Most of these people are just not up to the job. Bush, Rubio, Walker, Fiorina, Huck, Jindal,Paul. None of them are going to win a general election agains’t Hillary Clinton. Its just a dream like they thought Mitt would take down Obama. Not even close. It will not happen.
I would say only Cruz and Trump and maybe Perry have a chance to win a general election. I think Perry’s actual accomplishments as TX Governor would be good in a general election but I don’t think he can win the primary. That leaves Cruz and Trump.
Somebody is going to have to excite the republican base and get them to the polls. At the rate the Republican Congress is pizzing off the base that’s going to be a chore. I don’t feel that optimistic about the whole thing.