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Ted Cruz Goes On Offense - “Complete hogwash” says Texan of critics.
The American Spectator ^ | October 25, 2013 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 10/25/2013 4:04:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Ted Cruz is unbowed.

The Texas Senator, speaking at The American Spectator’s annual Washington gala Wednesday evening, was nothing if not resolute in his attacks on the disaster that has become Obamacare.

“Should we have fought this fight?” he asked, his resounding yes coming by way of citing the differences between the way the disaster of Obamacare is perceived in Washington and out in the country. “If you get out of Washington there’s no ambiguity” on the question, Cruz said.

“This thing isn’t working. It is a disaster and a disaster that is hurting people right now…. On the merits Obamacare isn’t working.”

Cruz came out swinging against his GOP Establishment critics in the Senate and elsewhere, and was fearless in taking on his critics. Saying among things that when his opponents in the GOP said their disagreement with him was on “tactics” — and he asked for their tactics — the response that came back was the sound of “crickets chirping.”

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatism; cruzco; obamafraud; tedcruz
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1 posted on 10/25/2013 4:04:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Cruz is bright, fearless, honest, articulate, and patriotic.
Everything his critics AREN'T.
2 posted on 10/25/2013 4:06:51 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It's so refreshing to have a pubbie with a backbone! Now if we can find some more just like him we might stand a chance of turning this country around.
3 posted on 10/25/2013 4:09:13 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You have to wonder what the hundreds of thousand, maybe even millions of people that had their insurance canceled, are thinking and feeling. Where do they go as of 1/1/2014 they will have no coverage, physician uncertainty etc. They are not only Dems; but Repubs and Indies.


4 posted on 10/25/2013 4:12:13 AM PDT by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This must all be very frightening for the republican’ts.


5 posted on 10/25/2013 4:14:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Note that the “Surrender Caucus”, McCain, King, Cornyn, and Graham, has suddenly turned silent on Cruz. Cruz will come out the big winner on this, and there will be wailing an gnashing of teeth in The Establishment.


6 posted on 10/25/2013 4:16:11 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Amagi; All
"......And his talk at The American Spectator dinner, which you can hear at this link, is a reason why conservatives all over America outside Washington are responding to him....."
7 posted on 10/25/2013 4:17:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: norwaypinesavage

America has the chance to come out the winner.


8 posted on 10/25/2013 4:18:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: rightwingextremist1776

I’ll settle right now for many more who won’t criticize him. They just whine - the ‘conservative’ pundits and they find other ‘experts’ to whine.

And what they’re saying is what Diane Feinstein said to him in committee. ‘This is Washington young man. That is not the way we do things here’

The republicans do this but then they don’t tell him their winning strategy

Are they trying to tell him that there is none, they enjoy losing? That’s not what they are getting paid to do


9 posted on 10/25/2013 4:30:33 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“This thing isn’t working. It is a disaster and a disaster that is hurting people right now…. On the merits Obamacare isn’t working.”

All he wanted to do was to stop this train wreck for one year, which is something that obama and crew will wish that they had accepted and then they could have blamed all of this mess on Cruz.

obama is such a turd that he didn't want his enemy {that's us folks} to win any points and so is the guy that would cut off his nose to spite his face {in his case it's ears}.

10 posted on 10/25/2013 4:34:09 AM PDT by USS Alaska (If I could...I would.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“Should we have fought this fight?” Ted Cruz asked. “If you get out of Washington there’s no ambiguity.”




11 posted on 10/25/2013 4:34:59 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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Every time any of you guys have a discussion with a lib “friend” or acquaintance or whatever on facebook, or wherever else, and they disparage Cruz and call him stupid, evil, or whatever, you tell them...

You are a racist, you only don’t like Ted Cruz because he is Hispanic, and it just kills you to think a Hispanic can wield any power in this country.

That should be the ONLY response to ANY criticism.


12 posted on 10/25/2013 4:51:28 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: onyx

Someone should forward this to the good Doc Krauthammer who continually insists Cruz accomplished zilch.

(doesn’t matter if the elitist is left or right, they all get butt-hurt and jealous so easily)


13 posted on 10/25/2013 4:57:25 AM PDT by BuckeyeGOP
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To: Amagi

Concur.. and I hope Washington doesn’t wear him down like it has Rubio.


14 posted on 10/25/2013 5:20:00 AM PDT by maddog55
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To: duckman

One option is Christian healthcare co-ops. No messing with the nonsense of the exchanges, and no tax/penalty. Much less expensive, too.


15 posted on 10/25/2013 5:24:31 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer

This may be the “bright side” of this whole debacle.
More Christians actually putting their faith in God and their brothers in Christ,
and less in their employer and insurance provider.

Guilty as charged, here.


16 posted on 10/25/2013 5:30:33 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
My advice to the communist Left is that they had better get out of the way, because they're going to be crushed by the Tea Party in '14, and by Cruz in '16.

Thanks to socialized medicine.

Thank You Commies™

17 posted on 10/25/2013 5:34:12 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

When faced with persistant resistance, they’ll resort to violence. They were so close they could taste it.


18 posted on 10/25/2013 5:35:08 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Man, this guy has some BALLS. How could you not want to vote for him as President? I don’t think the guy is grandstanding for attention after hearing about his upbringing. He may be one of the onlybpoliticians to have integrity and The People’s best interests at heart in quite some time


19 posted on 10/25/2013 5:58:41 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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“......In a Washington Post column a year ago, Dana Milbank noted Cruz’s schooling and concluded that his Tea Party politics must be a put-on, that he is, underneath it all, an “intellectually curious, liberal-arts conservative.” Note the insulting assumption that an interest in books and ideas immunizes someone from a certain kind of conservative politics.

One of the left’s deepest prejudices is that its opponents are stupid, and Cruz tramples on it. At hearings, Cruz has the prosecutorial instincts of a … Harvard-trained lawyer. Watching Attorney General Eric Holder try to fend off Cruz’s questioning on the administration’s drone policy a few months ago was like seeing a mouse cornered by a very large cat........”

http://nypost.com/2013/08/24/ted-cruz-a-traitor-to-harvard-princeton/


20 posted on 10/25/2013 6:01:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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