Posted on 07/31/2012 6:43:33 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Tea party-backed Ted Cruz has defeated Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
FILE - In this June 22, 2012 file photo, Texas Senate Candidates Ted Cruz, left, and Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst , right, are seen after their televised debate in Dallas, Texas. Democrats have their thumbs heavily on Republican scales in Senate primaries in Missouri and Wisconsin this summer, hoping to tip the balance and improve their own chances of maintaining a majority in November. The idea isn't as far-fetched as it might sound.
The former state solicitor general won the runoff Tuesday. He'd lost the May 29 primary by a large margin but forced the runoff because Dewhurst fell short of a majority. Cruz advances to the November election to succeed retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Cruz painted Dewhurst as a timid career politician too willing to compromise with Democrats.
The race was seen as a national test of the tea party's influence.
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Or so I was told. :-)
WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a huge and history-making victory for Constitutionalists everywhere!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5HRzaOFhec
yee Haw!!!!!!!!!!!! Romney and the gopE..do you hear us now?
woohoo... awesome!
Way to go Texas, good job!
SWEEEEEEET!
Okay Karl Rove, try to spin this you fat bastard!!!!
Outstanding!!!
So, this is how many for Palin? She endorsed Cruz.
And the collective GOPe/dummycrat pants crapping has commenced. Beeyoootiful.
Way to go, Texas! :-)
Job A: Vanquish the lib dems outright.
B: Then take the fight to the Mod/RINO wing of the GOP and set a fire under THEIR asses, and show them them who is now in control and who their proper master are. We are.
Get an impeachable/do-able GOP level for House and conviction/expulsion comfortable GOP level for Senate, with enough balls for each new Tea party/Conservative GOP candidate, and if Obama, Lord forbid, somehow is reelected on a fluke by the popular socialist masses and waves of dead people, we can at least remove him from office if and when he goes for his next UNconstitutional act. This may be our only safety next left folks for our Republic. Take the House and Senate bit by bit, and take it SOLIDLY with GOP/TEA PARTY CONSERVATIVES as its base and core.
Once again, Texas leads the way. Thank you Texas, seal the deal in November.
This is a definite smack down to the GOP-e. Good for Cruz in my state of Texas.
Haven't you heard?
It’s times like these that give me hope.
Congrats to all my fellow Texan Tea Party folks...we did it.
Not funny!
We got what we wanted, now make it count! Make sure Cruz and all the other true conservatives have the money to win in November. I’m donating generously, and I hope everyone on FR is figuring out what they can afford to donate (and the cost of not donating enough!).
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