Posted on 01/05/2022 4:33:31 PM PST by datura
To say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. As someone who has viewed Senator Ted Cruz as one of the “good guys” on Capitol Hill, hearing him say the January 6 mostly peaceful protest was a “violent terrorist attack on the Capitol” feels like the worst type of betrayal. I know why he said it and I’ll explain below, but here’s the report of what he said according to American Greatness:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) shocked many conservatives on Wednesday when he echoed the left’s overwrought January 6 messaging during a Senate Rules Committee hearing, referring to the riot as a “violent terrorist attack on the Capitol,” and offering full-throated support for the Capitol Police, some of whose actions led to the deaths of multiple unarmed Trump supporters. Cruz thanked the police for “defending” the U.S. Capitol and said those who assaulted law enforcement officers should be prosecuted.
“We are approaching a solemn anniversary this week,” Cruz said. “And it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol where we saw the men and women law enforcement demonstrate incredible courage, incredible bravery, risk their lives to defend the men and women who serve in this Capitol.”
“My view is that anyone who commits an act of violence should be prosecuted,” Cruz said during Senate testimony from Capitol Police chief Wednesday. “And anyone who assaults a law enforcement officer should go to jail for a very long time. And I think that’s a principle that is true regardless of the politics of the violent criminal, whether they are right-wing, left-wing or they got no wings at all.”
Cruz asked Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger what could have been done differently to prevent the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“As we reflect on what happened a year ago, it is also worth asking as we have as this committee has as this Congress has, I know you have—what could have been done differently? What could have prevented the breach of the Capitol, what could have prevented the riot getting as far as it did?”
Manger blamed the breach on “clearly documented intelligence failures” and “leadership failures with the Capitol Police Department.”
Now, let’s discuss WHY he said it. He’s running in 2024. I know he’s been a bit aloof about it, as he has to be this early in the game, but he’s running. He’ll be running if Donald Trump runs. He’ll be running if Ron DeSantis runs. He’ll be running if Mike Pence runs. And the only way he has any chance of defeating either of the two populists or the RINO is if he gets the power of the Republican Establishment behind him.
That means changing his various tunes to suit milquetoast Republicans with lots of money. It means distancing himself from Trump and the MAGA movement by siding with Democrats on the false January 6 “insurrection” narrative.
I don’t know this based on anything others have said. I know this because I’ve followed Cruz since before he was a 2016 presidential candidate. His decision-making is precise and his strategies are transparent, albeit brilliant at times. But perhaps more than anything else I know that this is all part of a 2024 strategy because the alternative is unfathomable. That alternative would be that he actually believes the protests and false-flag, Deep State-inspired entry into the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a terrorist attack. If he thinks that, then everything I’ve ever thought about him before was based on lies.
Ted Cruz made statements about January 6 that were ludicrous prima facie. Saying it was a terrorist attack despite the mountains of evidence proving otherwise means that he’s gone to the dark side for the sake of political expediency.
That’s how the world operates. Make the best choice to suit
you and move on down the line.
And now you know why I supported Trump in the 2016 primaries.
Lots of videos that are hours and hours in length prove what Cruz said is correct.
Neither are POTUS material...........
I literally held my nose voting for him 3 years ago because he was needed for Trump. I will again hold my nose voting for him 3 years from now, if he’s on the November ballot, because I’m able to understand what the Democrats have in store for me and the country (even though he’ll likely lose then).
But even so, Cruz is about as big a jerk as I’ve ever seen.
Even Biden’s Justice Dept does not categorise the Jan 6th events as Ted Cruz does.
It just proves the kind of person Ted Cruz is, he is ideologically and politically close to Liz Cheney despite his public feud with her.
I sat down to lunch with a business associate from Texas during the 2016 primaries. He said “Ted Cruz is my senator and I know I should support him, but every time he speaks, I feel like he’s trying to sell me a used matress.”
Since then, that’s all I hear from Cruz.
What if he knows something we don’t?
What if.... the truth comes out and we find out the Dems orchestrated this.
Of course, if this does not happen, the man is dead to me.
Nah.
I didn’t see a “violent terrorist attack” on the Capital. Nothing was burned, nothing was destroyed, only windows were broken and it’s questionable who broke those. I did see capitol police beating protestors and I did see trespassers milling peacefully around inside the building. Only trump supporters were killed. And we still havent seen the video the Democrats don’t want us to see. Sorry, I didn’t see a violent terrorist attack on the capitol and Cruz just embraced the Democrat narrative.
Personally, I will never forgive and forget. I won’t ever hold my nose again to vote for any Republican that the GOP floats in front of me.
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Nor I. I will vote for Conservative politicians. I will not vote for GOP-lebeled anything.
I do not imagine to any degree that many GOPers follow this road.
Ted won’t get my vote ever again!
People are being illegally detained without bail in a DC gulag. Ted Cruz and all who agree with him can rot in hell.
Why don’t you leave then. I’d rather swim in the river Styx than give in to these communist bastards.
You people are nuts.
Go Ted Cruz.
You can always count on Free Republic as being the low hanging fruit when it comes to hating Ted Cruz.
That was the moment I dropped Cruz and became a Trump supporter. Never looked back.
Today's statement is entirely in the same mold as that one.
He sucks. He’s always sucked.
“I voted for Cruz in the primary in 2016. I won’t do so again.”
ditto. Ted Cruz seems to have channeled Nikki Haley, with the same politically disastrous results. He will never become President.
Lyin’ Ted at it again?
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