Posted on 03/23/2016 2:30:01 PM PDT by libbylu
Why do they hate Ted Cruz so much? Well, yeah, partly it's because he's conservative. But why hate that? It's more than that. It's threatening. And I'm just gonna tell you: In the case of Ted Cruz, every damned one of these people knows full well that they're not in his league in terms of IQ, in terms of intelligence, in terms of talent and ability. They can't compete with him. So they ignore him. They pretend he's not there. When they do have him on to interview him, they usually resort to tactics of intimidation or putting him down or snark or some such thing to try to mask his intellectual superiority over them.
They can't keep up. They despise him. He's a threat in that regard. You combine the kind of raw, native intelligence Cruz has with his heartfelt conservatism, and you have personified what the left fears the most. Therefore what they hate, what they despise. They know they'll never be able to corral Cruz. They'll never be able to control him. They will never be able to impugn him intellectually. So they go after him in other ways. They compare him to a preacher who doesn't give the money back. They compare him to somebody has no happiness.
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Let us not forget that “The club for growth” has backed Ted Cruz. Ted has completely sold out.
This is hilarious. No one fears Ted Cruz.
Well you guys sure do act all scared.
False premise. Socialists/progressives/RINOS/gopE/criminals/SCUMBAGS have no fear until they are incarcerated or eliminated. Wake up and smell history.
“They know they’ll never be able to corral Cruz. They’ll never be able to control him. They will never be able to impugn him intellectually.”
Except where it comes to issues that the Establishment really counts for a lot, like TPA/TPP, Corker bill, increase in H-1B visas, increase in immigration, etc., little things like that, and the same little things that Cruz supporters refuse to hold in their consciousness.
I don’t know about hate but I think they dislike him because he is an overly ambitious young establishment hack who would not wait his turn and jumped the line, which is frowned upon in Calgary Ted’s Bushy establishment circles. Pulling self promoting stunts like calling McConnell a liar just to build his “outsider” cred probably didn’t help any either. On top of that he is a very unlikeable guy who hangs around with other thoroughly unlikeable GOP establishment types.
I think Cruz really does hate him.
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Posted on 3/23/2016, 4:34:05 PM by ShivaFan
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I don’t doubt it, but I don’t believe for a second that a proven liar like Cruz was mortally offended by McConnell lying to him as his story goes.
If he wasn't offended, why do you believe he hates him?
Oh look, a mindless sheeple!
You'repeat disrupting the sheeples 2 minutes of hate by injecting facts and reason into their emotionally charged rhetoric and pithy mindless Goebbelesque two word slogans.
I think a lot of the GOP establishment elite guys hate each other for the same reason that high school cliques hate each other. I believe they are that shallow.
Thank you for the kind words.
Cruz is a first term senator that ran on a Tea Party platform. The "GOP establishment elite guys" drew a target on his back the first day he was there.
I think the Tea Party thing was pretty much an act much like Rubio pulled. The Senators all knew who Cruz was from his association with Boehner and Bush. I think the reason they dislike him as they do is that he committed the grave sin of jumping the line. As the GOP insider said in the restaurant scene on “The Circus” “Republicans are respectful and wait their turn”.
It started way before he ever declared his candidacy.
If you think Cruz is following GOP masters, you just might be a brainwashed cult member who’s lost all capacity for independent perception and reason.
So you think his word for word match with the MSM and Romney condemnation of all the Trump caused VIOLENCE was just an accident? Ok.
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