Posted on 10/14/2013 8:50:54 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
In an October 10, 2013 story, Politico noted that the columnist and television personality Charles Krauthammer continued to criticize Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas for pursuing a strategy to attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Krauthammer, among other establishment Republicans, has suggested the Cruz and his allies were being quixotic by pushing for the defund strategy, that there was no way that the Senate would accept such a move or that the president would sign it. He has also suggested that the government shutdown, which followed, has not redounded to the benefit to Republicans.
Cruz has, in effect, been set up to be the scape goat for any damage that the shutdown drama has caused to the
. . .
Fast forward to the 2014 elections. Millions of conservative voters, having concluded that elected Republicans won’t fight against Obamacare, would likely have stayed home, as they did in 2012 when they found Mitt Romney too much of a northeastern moderate for their taste.
The result would have been that not only would the Republicans not have taken the Senate, they might well have lost the House.
However with Cruz and others having fought the good fight and having dragged the rest of the congressional Republicans kicking and screaming, conservative voters see that there is someone looking after their interests.
Cruz once famously suggested that the Senate needed “100 Jesse Helms,” referring to a late arch conservative senator. Conservative voters might well now flock to the polls with the desire for “100 Ted Cruzes.” For one establishment Republicans, that might be a mixed blessing. The GOP may take the Senate now. But they will do so with a group of rambunctious tea party senators like Cruz who will not be prepared to go along to get along.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Which is why only Durbin and Reid even showed up during his filibuster. Which is why he is the public face of the Heritage group who are leading this fight. He is a first rate litigator. Put him on the same stage as Obama, and he would take Obama apart.
Fifty Ted Cruzs and fifty Mike Lees!
From your lips to GOD’s ears. Go Cruz and LEE.
David Dewhurst would be promising to do a better job looking out for Texans in the next session.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.