They will let Cruz get as far out on the branch as possible, then they will cut off the branch.
Make no mistake, everything the GOP is doing is to destroy Cruz.
The reason the “Republican Brand” is being hurt by Cruz is because he has demonstrated that the Republicans by and large are just a bunch of gutless hypocritical cowards.
The liberals hate the GOP because they are not democrats. Conservatives hate the GOP because they are not Republicans.
Except for Peter King R(NY). He was on MSNBC bashing Cruz and speaking like a repub candidate for 2016.
I would like to know if these are the same “polls” that show how much everyone loves obamacare? Communist aholes
I think the elitist appeasing Republican establishment has pretty much sealed its fate. They aren’t going to get those ‘independent’ moderates, they aren’t going to get blacks, nor are they going to get Hispanics no matter how much they appease. They are forever relegated to second-tier power and status because they as a national party have lost conservatives pretty much forever at this point.
I really couldn’t give a rat’s patootie about he GOP any more. Only to the extent that we can extort actions like this shutdown, etc. will I tolerate them. No money, not votes, no nothing for any GOPe anymore.
My vote, support and money are now only for Conservatives.
Yesterday on CNN saw him riffing and heard the favorable crowd reactions while I had a breakfast sandwich at McDbag, he was definitely on the vik’!
[snip] Paul’s and Rubio’s dodges, and Ryan’s implicit rebuke, demonstrate that they are seeking to avoid being tainted by the fight’s fallout while avoiding any confrontation with the party’s base. [/snip]
If Cruz or Palin are not eh presidential candidates at this point in time I guess I will be writing in a name.
None of the others impress me a bit.
Sometimes people are more interested in what a politician doesn’t do than they are about what they say they will do.
By the time 2016 rolls around history will have validated that attempting to stop Obiecare will have been worth the shutdown and many will wish that the battle had been more vigiorusly engaged.
So do we vote for the balless and the gutless?
So I guess we know who we have to vote for, CRUZ 2016
Assuming Cruz sticks to the hardline, it would be a good test candidate to see if there is sufficient support for a real conservative in the GOP.
What a bunch of gutless cowards. No wonder Sen. Cruz stands out as a leader. They have only themselves to blame for his success.
The Republican Party will not win elections without the conservative base, so who is really responsible for its demise?
At this point, Cruz is the ONLY candidate I will consider in 2016. I don’t care what party he runs for. The GOP is dead to me. Hopefully he runs as the standard bearer of a new party.
The others are not real men. Make no mistake about it, they are girly men. Leaders are made, not born, and Cruz is a leader.
Elect no mealy mouthed traitors, only straight talkers like Palin and Cruz
Maybe the McCain generation of republicans are just jealous of Cruz being he is stealing thier show?