Posted on 01/01/2016 11:59:42 AM PST by conservativejoy
Yes, Cruz is the real deal. No need to take my word for it. Just look and listen. It's as Limbaugh says: the left and the establishment right will always tell you who they fear the most.
Sure, they hate both Trump and Cruz. The hatred for Trump is understandable, from their standpoint. He makes Republicans look bad. He's intolerant and generally causes them embarrassment.
But the antipathy for Cruz is born of fear. They fear the end of the government gravy train if he gets elected. They fear that with Cruz at the helm, Americans may just discover they don’t actually need Washington involved in every facet of their lives. They fear an uncompromising constitutional standard bearer as head of the party.
So their strategy is to send out trusted surrogates to trash the candidate and place the seed of doubt in voters' minds (and big-money backers) that a Cruz nomination will surely equal a Hillary win.
Case in point: Moderate Republican shill and former George W. Bush communications director Nicolle Wallace said in an interview regarding Ted Cruz: "He is truly despised [by Republicans] - he is not a team player" and is apparently the king of "hubris and egomania." She, like almost all other establishment hacks, pundits, and politicians are just plain befuddled, as Wallace, with an uncomfortable laugh, tells the interviewer that Cruz is "at the top of the polls in Iowa, so I think voters are saying they just don't care."
The key here is not so much that Cruz is despised or is tops in hubris and egomania. No, it's that "he is not a team player." I'm reminded of the film Johnny Dangerously. A gangster boss known as Johnny Dangerously is actually Johnny Kelly. His younger brother Tommy Kelly has no idea he is the notorious mob boss Dangerously. Tommy is appointed assistant District Attorney and vows to bring down the infamous gangster. The D.A., who's on the mob's take, invites Tommy to his palatial estate, which is all courtesy of gangster payoffs. He tells Tommy, he too could have what the D.A. has, as he proclaims, "It's all yours Tommy, if you play ball! What do you say?" To which Tommy replies, "I'll see you in prison!"
With this unfortunate confirmation of the assistant D.A.'s lack of cooperation, the mob, unknown to Dangerously, attempts to "take out" his younger brother Tommy.
Ted Cruz is Tommy Kelly. He must be taken out.
Wallace explains that, "these are good Republicans who worked in the Bush administration and who clerked in the Supreme Court who say they would have a really hard time voting for Ted Cruz if he were the Republican standard bearer."
What can you say to an exclamation such as that, but WOW! I've been holding my nose and pulling the lever for progressive establishment Republicans since 1988, and these people have the nerve to cry over one conservative candidate? Look at who we’ve been conned and bullied into supporting - all for the good of the precious party - George H.W. Bush, the kinder/gentler progressive. Bob Dole's nomination was equivalent to a lifetime achievement award. And of course the other two loser establishment picks: McCain and Romney.
And we're not allowed one candidate? This inner circle of power and control is very exclusive and conservatives are not allowed a seat at the table, but they want our votes to pay for the table and chairs and fund their party and hire us as the wait staff.
What have we conservatives been saying all along? If someone like Cruz or Trump gets the nomination, the establishment would much prefer a Hillary presidency and this is the exact veiled threat the establishment kingmakers sent Wallace out to disseminate.
They are scared to death of Ted Cruz. It is a delight to see and I personally count it as a gift to finally be able to back someone I believe in - not someone we have to settle on, or like Romney, try to convince ourselves that he will be okay. We finally have someone for whom we don't have to constantly wonder, "Is he for real this time?"
What “both” sides?
I like your graphic.
Cruz will win fewer states than Santorum did in 2012. But he could match Huckabee in 2008.
LIMBAUGH: Brilliant, and conservative through and through. Trustworthy, strong, confident, leader, and somebody in whom you can totally depend.
It’s nice to know that you have a crystal ball, next time I need to know my fortune.
Wealthy investors shot skeet with Sen. Ted Cruz in Park City, Utah, earlier this month. Conservative lawyers gathered in a clubby Washington restaurant last week to raise money for his presidential bid. And on Monday, billionaire technology entrepreneur Darwin Deason and five other wealthy Texans announced that they were coming aboard his campaign.
For all his bashing of billionaire Republican donors who actively despise our base, the anti-establishment senator from Texas is being bolstered by his own robust base of wealthy contributors. Cruz raised $5.2 million through the end of September from supporters who gave him the $2,700 maximum — making him No. 2 in the GOP race for large donors, after former Florida governor Jeb Bush, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute.
Re:”Cruz will win fewer states than Santorum did in 2012. But he could match Huckabee in 2008.”
Spoken like a good democrat.
Hillary will be proud of you when you sit out the election.
Good boy.
Good boy.
Dude, that needs to be a T-Shirt.
55 years experience starting with JFK-Nixon helps.
It’s just the new meme they are circulating. All of a sudden you get a multitude of “everyone fears Cruz” stories, just like you got the “Cruz is ascending” stories from a month ago.
You see they dont have the ability for things to speak for themselves like with Trump, so they have to talk you to death to convince you that this is true about Cruz too!
The problem around here is that many Cruz supporters consider it a sin to not support Cruz.
Just be prepared for the incoming.
Quite frankly, I don’t think either side fears the other. Oh they don’t LIKE each other and actually LOATHE each other. But screaming how much a side can’t stand the other is not fear.
I’m sure not “afraid” of Hildabeast and they certainly aren’t afraid of Ted Cruz
No point arguing now. We can chat again in mid-May.
Bookmarking.
The Dhimmicraps and teh RINO Establishment.
I just post realism. I have been a political junkie longer than 97% of FReepers. I have watched every JFK-Nixon debate in real time.
Both sides == same side
Lib socialists and rino vichy republicans
no one fears Ted Cruz........ most people don’t even know who he is
If anyone honestly thinks the Establishment does not fear Trump at this point, that person is lying to himself.
Like Dumbledor’s brother said, “That’s what fools do. They lie to themselves.”
What is that skywriter in the Rose Bowl Parade all about?
Stark raving fear run amok.
Someone must have listened to Rush’s rerun today and thought that Rush still believes that Cruz is the ONE they fear. I doubt Rush still thinks that way.
While I like Cruz very much and would have maintained support for him, the Trump phenomenon is too revolutionary to ignore. Trump will take the fight to anyone — Hillary included, world leaders included, Islam included —
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