Ted Cruz Ping! If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!
CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 07/28/2015 12:51:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ted Cruz‘s epic battle with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor flowed onto the Fox News set Monday when two influential personalities called out the Texas senator for not going after Donald Trump in the name of party solidarity — but being willing to attack one of his own party’s leaders.
On Fox News’ “Special Report” Monday, commentator Brit Hume accused Cruz of hypocrisy.
Ted Cruz‘s epic battle with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor flowed onto the Fox News set Monday when two influential personalities called out the Texas senator for not going after Donald Trump in the name of party solidarity — but being willing to attack one of his own party’s leaders.
On Fox News’ “Special Report” Monday, commentator Brit Hume accused Cruz of hypocrisy.
“He insisted his stance was born of fidelity to the so-called 11th commandment, made famous by Ronald Reagan, thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican,” Hume said.
“Two days later, Cruz was on the Senate floor calling Republican leader McConnell a liar,” Hume said. “It may have shown Cruz to be an obvious hypocrite, but for one day, at least, he Trumped Trump, and that means mission accomplished.”
Hume was referring to a floor speech Friday when Cruz accused McConnell of misleading him and other Republicans before a vote involving the Export-Import Bank. The public fight continued during a rare session Sunday, when Cruz was criticized — though not by name — by Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, the most senior Republican in the body.
Later in the show, conservative columnist and author Charles Krauthammer agreed.
“I think Brit Hume was entirely right that it is an act of rather amazing hypocrisy to refuse to attack Trump on the grounds – and these are the grounds that Cruz invoked – of not wanting to attack another Republican, and then, within a few hours or days, to get on the floor of the Senate and to call your own party’s leader a liar,” he said.
Both analysts called it it a strategic move by Cruz to court Trump supporters if Trump should leave the race.
Cruz is building a campaign based on standing apart from the Washington Republican establishment. When he’s drawing fire from political figures like McConnell and Hatch, and media names like Krauthammer and Hume, he’s standing about as far apart from it as he can get.
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO
Ted Cruz is pursuing a different strategy in dealing with The Donald, compared to the Republican Establishment and the RINO’s in the race for the Republican nomination.
The “Eleventh Commandment” (Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican) is sort of in operation here, and Ted Cruz does not need the publicity nearly as much as some of the other “also-rans” that probably will not get into the August 6th debate. Besides, I think that something about The Donald’s “take no prisoners” approach sort of appeals to Cruz, who is himself a bit of an iconoclast and a bomb thrower, when the situation suits him.
Krauthammer and Brit Hume, what can I say but la la la la...la la la la...hey hey...goodbye
Et tu, Britt?
Election night 2000, Brit said, “Florida has gone for Gore. We are calling Florida for Gore. Trust us. We know what we’re talking about.” He called it on the air before polls were closed in the Mountain Time Zone and on the West Coast. He lost credibility with me then. Never regained it.
Aaaa, Hume is a Jeb noser. If Jeb stops walking too
quick all you see is Humes feet sticking out of his culo.
It was hypocritical unless Cruz hangs his hat on that McConnell deliberately lied to him. Cruz should say “I will never speak bad of another Republic, but unfortunately McConnell is not a Republican, he’s a RINO!”
We were still buttoning up the polls in our TX county that night, and I missed that memorable moment from Know-It-All Hume. That’s rather like Shep reporting about cannabalism in the Super Bowl during Katrina. When Ailes didn’t fire him, it seemed obvious that credibiity doesn’t rank high on Ailes’ job requirements.
They prefer the comfort of lies to the discomfort of truth.
Ted Cruz Ping! Hume, Trump hasn’t won a seat in Congress by running on a conservative platform, knowing he was flat-out lying, and proceeding to prove that he was lying, with no shame, by supporting Hussein’s agenda more consistently than the ‘rats could have done once he won. That’s what McConnell did.
I had no idea that Trump had lied to Ted, as Mitch did. Bob
Really, I didn’t know that. I knew anyway that he’s a GOPe shill, that is reinforcement.
McConnell didn’t just lie to Cruz, McConnell flat lied in his campaign when he ran saying he’d oppose CommieCare and fight for the conservative agenda, then when he got the cotes, going back to DC and doing everything Harry Reid would have done. I consider that much more egregious. Cruz is speaking on the betrayed voters’ behalf.
They’ll be the toast of the town all over DC.
Did they discuss whether the liar charge was TRUE
Bet not
FReep them and their running dogs!
Exactly right. Cruz won’t play the got’cha game of the media, and now they’re PO’d. Does anyone really care what Cruz thinks about Trump? Each man is running his own campaign.
One defining feature of the Cruz candidacy has been his refusal to attack the vast majority of republican candidates for the White House. He has welcomed each of them to the race politely, and I have been impressed with that approach. Once he is elected, he will need to work with them.
Note: I am a little concerned that Cruz isn’t trying for a better relationship even with the RINOs, since he will need them too, but I hope he will be able to fix that once he takes the Oath of Office on January 20, 2017.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.