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Perkins: Cruz is de facto leader of Republican Party
cnn.com ^
| October 11, 2013
| Peter Hamby
Posted on 10/11/2013 7:06:49 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie
Perkins: If you look at most of those we have coming to speak here, they're conservative leaders who have been pushing this effort to delay or suspend Obamacare. I don't think you are going to see them saying, 'Hey, we are going to settle here,' except for maybe Paul RyanThis Perkins guy doesn't mince words, he knows Paul Ryan is weak on this. He didn't avoid saying that just to be nice.
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posted on
10/11/2013 7:46:43 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: ontap
He represents a fairly liberal constituency ....apparently that's his claim to fame!!! So Romney picked a fellow liberal Republican as his running mate. Now I understand Ryan's unending attacks on Medicare and SS while ignoring welfare reform.
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posted on
10/11/2013 7:49:02 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: SoConPubbie
Ted Cruz is defacto head of the GOP?
Hell, yes, as far as I’m concerned, he is. He’s the only one - along with Mike Lee - who stood up and put himself under the gun.
Everyone else just followed when looked like “the right thing to do”... instead of stepping up and standing beside him.
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posted on
10/11/2013 7:50:12 AM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: SoConPubbie
You have to give Ted Cruz credit. He didn’t come to Washington to be John Cornyn. The freshman senator is making everyone take notice.
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posted on
10/11/2013 7:50:33 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Howdy to all you government agents spying on me.)
To: OrangeHoof
He is the leader because he is the ONLY one leading!
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posted on
10/11/2013 7:52:58 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Theodore R.
Mostly he was a stealth anti-gun bozo. After Columbine he went Bloomberg on us. I was one of many RMGO members who got elected as a delegate for the sole purpose of booing him off the stage at the state party convention. It was fun. He did not speak, he left.
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posted on
10/11/2013 8:00:00 AM PDT
by
SpeakerToAnimals
(I hope to earn a name in battle)
To: SoConPubbie
Cruz is de facto leader of thr FORMER Republican Party
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posted on
10/11/2013 8:02:20 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
To: SMARTY
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posted on
10/11/2013 8:04:09 AM PDT
by
seeker41
(take your country back by whatever means necessary)
To: SoConPubbie
That is what the libs been saying on MSNBC, that Cruz is runnuing the GOP. I see he was on CNN Crossfire yesterday.
Given that Obama has not backed off his public stand that he will not negotiate nor compromise on CR or debt ceiling isnt the GOP house giving him some positive PR with these media stories about negotiations at White House?
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posted on
10/11/2013 8:07:18 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
10/11/2013 8:10:29 AM PDT
by
stayathomemom
(Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
To: austinaero
Well with Boehner and McConnell leading from under their desks somebody had to step up.
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posted on
10/11/2013 8:28:37 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: All
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posted on
10/11/2013 8:44:27 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: slipper
“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” - Thomas Paine 1792
To: Rock Eye Jack
Great quote!
Welcome to FR.
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posted on
10/11/2013 11:12:39 AM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
To: Rock Eye Jack
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posted on
10/11/2013 11:20:32 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: SoConPubbie
[Art.]
Instead, he said, expect this year's Values Voter Summit to be ground zero for the no-compromise wing of the Republican Party, and a hive of anti-Obamacare fervor where polarizing leaders like Cruz will be welcomed as conquering heroes. Wow, no "bias" in Pete Hamby's act, is there? Oh, wait -- CNN. Okay, I understand now.
To bad they don't have any viewers any more.
To: SoConPubbie
If Ted Cruz were the leader of the GOP I guarantee you they would not be caving like what Boner is setting up. Boner does not have the stomach to fight (I sense he abhors it), or the knowledge of a negotiator, and is not qualified to be Speaker.
It shocked me every bit as much as the clown's reelection to see Boner win a second nomination after all the grousing from some of the Conservatives like Bachmann and his dismal negotiating skills demonstrated during his first weepership gig..
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10/11/2013 3:58:11 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: Zhang Fei
Ryan didn't appear squishy to me until he got the VP nod. I'd kill to know which R strategist has Ryan's ear...and Rubio's. Big money R donors certainly have some hold too.
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posted on
10/12/2013 5:04:18 AM PDT
by
chiller
(NBCNews et al is in the tank and should be embarrassed)
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