[Col Freeper]

I suspect that some posters would like to convince people that Ted Cruz should stay in the Senate (for the good of the country of course!), and leave the 2016 election open for their favorite (but losing) 2012 Republican Primary candidate to have another shot in 2016.

You know, folks like say .... Senator Rick Santorum (although it apparently wasn't necessary for Senator Santorum to remain in the Senate back then - for the good of the country).

[Jim Robinson]

I suspect some posters don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to the actual law and the constitution but they have so much invested emotionally in the crackpot birther conspiracy theory that they’re caught in a trap of their own making. Gonna have to chew their own leg off to get free.

[C. Edmund Wright]

keeping Cruz in the Senate for the good of the country is not a bad argument, but that does not excuse the absurd and bureacratically smarmy technocratic arguments being made against Cruz by some. Its a totally different, and valid, discussion.

Personally, I like Cruz more than any other possible at this early time, but I am far more focused on two other things: A: the 2014 mid terms and B: the horror of so many so called conservatives ignoring clear original intent and getting caught up in technicalities and divining very circumspect intent to prove how much more of a purist they are. Pharisees of our time....

[SoConPubbie]

You know, folks like say .... Senator Rick Santorum (although it apparently wasn't necessary for Senator Santorum to remain in the Senate back then - for the good of the country).

I think you will find a fair number of Rand Paul supporters in that group as well.