While many are aghast at Leno’s hostile attitude, I think he actually did Cruz a favor. Cruz demonstrated that he can handle tough situations, not lose his composure, and has a wealth of information to back his stance. In my opinion, he certainly won over the crowd. At one point it appeared Leno had to go to break before Cruz could respond to an implication Leno threw out (typical Democrat trick of putting out false implications, then not allowing a response-much like we saw in the VA governor’s race). I view this much like sports. Do you want to see your team play the lowest ranked opponent or do you want to see them in a hotly contested match? Cruz showed he has the metal to go forward and the contest shows how badly Democrats fear him.
While many are aghast at Leno’s hostile attitude, I think he actually did Cruz a favor.Yes, I also think that Senator Cruz did VERY WELL on the issues, considering. :)Cruz demonstrated that he can handle tough situations, not lose his composure,
and has a wealth of information to back his stance...
Here is PART of the VERY THOROUGH analysis just posted John Hayward on www.humanevents.com:
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on Jay Leno’s show Friday night, sitting down for a set of generally dead-serious questions from the late-night host
and winning quite a bit of applause from the crowd...especially when Cruz tackled ObamaCare.-- snip --
Cruz scored his first big applause of the night by observing,
"The biggest divide we have is not between Republicans and Democrats...Leno proceeded to misunderstand what Cruz meant by "entrenched," or maybe he just wanted to change the subject, but it didn’t ruin the moment.
it is between entrenched politicians in both parties in Washington, and the American people."-- snip --
After Cruz scored another round of applause by identifying
ObamaCare as "the biggest job killer in the nation,"Leno hastily changed the subject again, attempting to put Cruz on the defensive by bringing up social issues and the government shutdown.
(Referring to Newt Gingrich’s description of the shutdown as a game, Leno insisted, "It’s not a game. A lot of people lose their jobs."
Who, Jay? Who lost his job during the shutdown?)Leno ended up making a point often raised by Republicans who disagreed with the Cruz strategy, saying that
if the confrontation leading to the government shutdown had been avoided, ObamaCare would still be failing just as hard
as it’s failing now, but Republicans would have higher approval ratings."I said throughout that we shouldn’t shut down the government," Cruz responded.I hope Senator Cruz’ colleagues are paying attention, because that’s how you control a narrative,"And the reason we had a government shutdown is that President Obama and the Democrats said,
'We will not negotiate, and we will not compromise.'"
or at least get into the fight for controlling it.Of course, they could have learned the technique by watching the behavior Democrats over the past few decades.
When was the last time they ever sat back and meekly accepted the Republicans’ preferred narrative of anything?
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Exactly. Great points and I agree 100%!