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What happened to Ted Cruz?
American Thinker ^ | 6 Jan, 2022 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/06/2022 4:31:04 AM PST by MtnClimber

What could possibly have happened to Ted to turn him into a shill for Democrat talking points on January 6, 2021?

I know from the volume of email I’ve received on it that Ted Cruz’s comments on January 6, 2021, calling it “a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol” have outraged many conservatives. Ted was once the darling of intellectually inclined conservatives, but I think the bloom is now off that rose.

Tucker Carlson used video of Cruz’s comments as the keystone of a segment on how Republicans are being cowardly and granting Democrats their false premises on the riot at the Capitol being an insurrection or even a “terrorist attack.” As Tucker put it, he was delivering talking points for Merrick Garland.

Is he feeling pressure over having protested voting results and fears being branded as an insurrectionist? Maybe he thinks Mark Elias’s scheme to disqualify Republicans from running for office is a real threat to him. But he should know that appeasing the enemy does not work.

Has he been in the Senate too long, and now wants to avoid confrontation with the Democrats? “Comity” is the word that used to be used, but these days the Democrats are offering none of it. They want to destroy the filibuster to ram through voting procedures that would enable perpetual cheating with mail-in ballots being counted for days after the election.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: capitol; communism; cruz; dissent; jan6th
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To: BobL

I know the Party Boys will wail and scream it’s my duty to be loyal to their Party and support the turds mentioned in this post if they are the appointed nominee, but I just can’t do it this time around. Trump showed me loyalty is one way with the GOP and I’m not playing the game anymore.

If the GOP Party worshiping pukes nominate these losers and a chunk of the base sits it out or votes third party the loss is on the Party Boys not the base. You all have shat on the base since 1989 and the free ride is over.


61 posted on 01/06/2022 6:55:23 AM PST by sarge83
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To: MtnClimber

This is why Tucker is authentic, he calls them out even if they are GOP. Hannity would never do that.


62 posted on 01/06/2022 6:56:34 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Fido969
Ted Cruz thinks if he can knock out Trump, then he’ll be the next President. What a maroon.

Exactly, if the MSM can't do it with their 24/7 365 attacks on Trump, Cruz can't.

63 posted on 01/06/2022 6:58:11 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: sarge83

Well, it’s our duty to STOP the Party Boys in their tracks.

We did it with Trump, and we’ve done it with a number of other high-profile people who the Party Boys wanted. In fact, Cruz did it, in 2012 - David Dewhurst was the ‘selected’ Senator (a John Cornyn clone, or worse). We also did it with Rubio (proving we’re not perfect either). And many others.


64 posted on 01/06/2022 7:02:09 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Larry - Moe and Curly

Bingo!


65 posted on 01/06/2022 7:02:37 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: ClearCase_guy
He occasionally sounds good. But he is never really good.

Bingo.

66 posted on 01/06/2022 7:06:15 AM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: sarge83

Agreed.


67 posted on 01/06/2022 7:06:26 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

$$$$


68 posted on 01/06/2022 7:13:19 AM PST by DFG
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To: Bratch

I was a big supporter of Cruz. He’s dead to me now.


69 posted on 01/06/2022 7:15:27 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: newfreep

I never said Reagan wasn’t pro-American.

However, you can’t ignore the fact that his VP was the former head of the CIA.

Reagan was supposed to be a deep state stooge and Bush was supposed to be the operative handling him. Whether Reagan went along with that willingly or tried to resist, I don’t know.

One thing is clear....amnesty for illegals (multiculturism), enriching the military industrial complex, the war on drugs (militarization of police), strengthening our intelligence agencies and other precursors to the “New World Order” were all kicked off on his watch.

Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies taking over the government in his farewell speech.

Kennedy intended to dismantle the intelligence agencies and pull back from Vietnam and was killed for it.

Every President we have had since then except one was part of the same cabal. Some were operatives (Johnson, G Bush, Clinton) Some were stooges (Carter, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, GW Bush, Obama, Biden)

Nixon wouldn’t play nice with his handlers and was removed.
Maybe Reagan wouldn’t play nice and was shot.


70 posted on 01/06/2022 7:15:58 AM PST by nitzy
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To: skeeter

“DC happened to TC.”

Liked Cruz in 2016, but have been very dismayed by his statements.
He definitely wants to fit in to DC and walk their line.

Hope he now recognizes he has no presidential qualities.


71 posted on 01/06/2022 7:19:09 AM PST by Ninaq (Nina)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump nailed it.
Lying Ted and Slow Joe.
We do need term limits now. One term for members of congress then out!
No frigging pension, no life long professional politicians.


72 posted on 01/06/2022 7:21:59 AM PST by pterional (scorched earth)
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To: Fido969

Ted Cruz thinks if he can knock out Trump, then he’ll be the next President.


Bingo. Early trial ballon to see if this works.....


73 posted on 01/06/2022 7:22:04 AM PST by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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Cruz's $2 million dollar home.

74 posted on 01/06/2022 7:22:31 AM PST by deport
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To: deport
Cruz's $2 million dollar home.

Courtesy of Goldman-Sachs.

75 posted on 01/06/2022 7:25:53 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: pterional

We do need term limits now. One term for members of congress then out!

***********

One benefit would be they wouldn’t have much time to spend on
gov’t issues as they would making agreements for their future.


76 posted on 01/06/2022 7:26:03 AM PST by deport
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To: MtnClimber

It’s coming down to a few women with any spine in the Republican party. And newcomers at that. The rest are just shills for the democrats.


77 posted on 01/06/2022 7:28:12 AM PST by robel
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To: Old Yeller
Blackmailed

If you are vulnerable to blackmail, you have no business running for office. Either accept the threat and let it play out, or make room for someone who cannot be compromised in that manner.
78 posted on 01/06/2022 7:31:57 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: MtnClimber

All politicians (even the “good” ones) are psychopathic narcissists. That is a job requirement since you get the job by winning a popularity contest where you lie about the other guy better than he lies about you. If they aren’t getting the attention they crave, they have no problems reinventing themselves to generate buzz. I think that Cruz has bad focus group research.


79 posted on 01/06/2022 7:35:01 AM PST by jimmygrace
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To: MtnClimber

He got a nasty email from me over his comments.


80 posted on 01/06/2022 7:39:41 AM PST by eastexsteve
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