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Cruz Aims at His Own Side — Again: He may be doing more damage to the GOP than are the Democrats
The National Review ^ | February 21, 2014 | Mona Charen

Posted on 02/21/2014 1:15:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) may be the brightest light to adorn the Republican party in many years. He knows how to make the case for conservative ideas, pointing, for example, to the contrasting fates of Detroit and Houston to illustrate the superiority of conservative policies. So it’s particularly galling to see that rather than train his fire at Obama and the liberal machine that cocoons him, Cruz has become a one-man wrecking ball against Republicans. His most recent foray into sabotaging his colleagues concerned the debt-limit increase.

Because Speaker Boehner sent over a “clean” debt-limit bill, Republican senators had decided to let it pass with only Democratic votes. Republicans would not be endorsing the Democrats’ spending priorities, but neither would they be opening themselves to the accusation of flirting with national default. With Obama’s political fortunes sinking and several “red state” Democratic senators in jeopardy, Republicans have a good chance to retake the Senate in November — unless they fall into civil war....

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TOPICS: Texas; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014; boehner; cabal; cfr; clintonbush; criminalpoliticians; cruz; fakepartysystem; msm; nwo; oneparty; rinos; rulingelite; savingamerica; tedcruz; threattocfr; tyranny
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Another establishment apparatchik going after him.
1 posted on 02/21/2014 1:15:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The GOPe is not our side.


2 posted on 02/21/2014 1:18:40 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mona is  Concerned


isn't that special

3 posted on 02/21/2014 1:18:51 PM PST by tomkat
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If this isn’t a coordinated effort, then it’s a severe case of “monkey see, monkey do,” or is it, “monkey see, monkey doo-doo”?


4 posted on 02/21/2014 1:19:03 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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Of course he’s doing more damage than the democrats. The democrats don’t want to see their boot licking GOPe pets harmed.


5 posted on 02/21/2014 1:19:25 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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6 posted on 02/21/2014 1:20:04 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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Another establishment apparatchik going after him.

It sure seems like the call went out this week to go after Cruz. At least it brings the Quislings out into the open

7 posted on 02/21/2014 1:20:33 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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The Rats in Republican clothing in the Senate have been working hard to undermine Cruz long before the debt ceiling vote.


8 posted on 02/21/2014 1:21:42 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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Wow. Guess I was wrong about Noonan being next.


9 posted on 02/21/2014 1:21:54 PM PST by txhurl
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What a week. First it was Thomas Sowell blasting away at Sen. Cruz. Then Ann Coulter. Now its Mona Charen?

Good. Now we know who’s clearly in the RINO camp.

Go Ted Go!


10 posted on 02/21/2014 1:22:37 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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If Mona doesn’t like what he’s doing, he must be doing something right!


11 posted on 02/21/2014 1:23:32 PM PST by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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If this isn’t a coordinated effort, then it’s a severe case of “monkey see, monkey do,” or is it, “monkey see, monkey doo-doo”?

Smells like the latter and FR needs an enema. There's a sudden surge of concern trolls citing Lib rags deeply concerned about Tea Party conservatives attacking Cornyn, McConnel, Cochran...et al.

12 posted on 02/21/2014 1:24:26 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is opening up wagering opportunities on who’s shockingly next!


13 posted on 02/21/2014 1:25:11 PM PST by txhurl
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lolol.

Don’t worry. She’ll be along directly.


14 posted on 02/21/2014 1:25:12 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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The beltway oligarchs of the uniparty are scared defecationless by Ted.
15 posted on 02/21/2014 1:26:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
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It sure seems like the call went out this week to go after Cruz. At least it brings the Quislings out into the open

Around here, too...

16 posted on 02/21/2014 1:27:16 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And I’ve boycotted NRO since the Steyn thing, anyway.


17 posted on 02/21/2014 1:27:31 PM PST by txhurl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It makes a very convenient litmus test. You see GOP going after Palin, and going after the “tea party”, and they stand exposed.

Now Cruz. Do you want to know who is prepared to sell you out to the obamists? Its not hard to tell now that they are exposing themselves yet again. These faux-conservatives will talk a good game but in the clinch they will slip it between your ribs every time.


18 posted on 02/21/2014 1:27:52 PM PST by marron
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You know you are on target when you start getting the flack!


19 posted on 02/21/2014 1:28:12 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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I think of the GOP as a person with stage four cancer. The cancer is liberalism. And Cruz as Chemotherapy. Yeah, it appears to be doing more damage than the cancer, but sometimes you get worse before you get better.

But to be honest, once you get stage four, funeral arrangements are the best use of your time.


20 posted on 02/21/2014 1:28:37 PM PST by cuban leaf
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