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Politics' Leading Man Ted Cruz just put on one hell of a show
American Spectator ^ | November issue | Kyle Peterson

Posted on 11/13/2013 4:18:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Pundits in Washington simply cannot decide about Ted Cruz. Does the Texas senator’s demagoguery more resemble that of Joe McCarthy (the New Yorker), or Father Charles Coughlin (MSNBC)? Was his fight to defund Obamacare a political version of General Custer’s last stand, or was it General Pickett’s charge (separate columns, both in the Washington Post)? Will Cruz hold the country hostage like the Taliban (the Daily Beast) or remake his party in his image like Vladimir Lenin (the Atlantic)? Should we imagine him as Don Quixote, the clueless would-be knight tilting at windmills (the New York Times), or as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, the 10-story minion of evil from the 1984 film Ghostbusters (the Guardian)?

In fairness, the capital’s scriveners are used to one-dimensional characters and ready-made narratives, and Ted Cruz is a tough man to peg. He was born in bashful Canada, but raised in cocksure Texas. He drank from the gilded chalice of the Ivy League, but then spat out its bitter orthodoxy. He’s the thinking man’s Tea Partier, and the Tea Partier’s thinking man. He tromps through the country’s highest deliberative body in black cowboy boots and tosses off words like “Rawlsian” in a soft Southern drawl. He’s cool and unflappable under pressure, yet ambitious and—depending on your view—dangerous. “I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years,” pronounced that shiny, hairless spheroid James Carville on television back in May. “I further think that he’s going to run for president and he’s going to create something.”

I ask the affable Texan about Cruzmania in a recent interview, reading from a list of quotations. “The Republican Barack Obama.” “Cruz is to public speaking what Michael Phelps was to swimming.” “Cruz is not just another whack job—he’s a highly intelligent whack job.”...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 113th; conservative; constitution; cruz; cruznpalin; donttreadonme; givemeliberty; livefreeordie; palinrocks; takebackamerica; teaparty; tedcruz; time2partyagain; treeofliberty
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To: G Larry

I thought someone else was smacking you down, and then I saw you were smacking down yourself.

Bravo!


41 posted on 11/13/2013 6:26:34 AM PST by green iguana
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To: LibLieSlayer

Oath Keepers

“Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to “defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” That oath, mandated by Article VI of the Constitution itself, is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and Oath Keepers declare that they will not obey unconstitutional orders, such as orders to disarm the American people, to conduct warrantless searches, or to detain Americans as “enemy combatants” in violation of their ancient right to jury trial. See the Oath Keepers Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey for details.”

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/


42 posted on 11/13/2013 6:30:23 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: billhilly

You’ve been reading full articles in the American Spectator for 43 years, and yet you fail to understand the meaning of the simple sentences in posts #4 and #5.

Interesting.


43 posted on 11/13/2013 6:30:53 AM PST by green iguana
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That was very well written article...thanks.


44 posted on 11/13/2013 6:35:39 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: KeyLargo

My Sheriff (a childhood friend) has pledged this as well as most here in Mississippi. We passed a law and it was signed by Governor Bryant... stating that the State Police will arrest anyone trying to give or carry out any orders that violate the US Constitution.

BTW, Key Largo is one of my all time favorites... as is To Have and Have Not. Love those movies!


45 posted on 11/13/2013 6:41:06 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

People who think this is a positive article are use to living off the crumbs from the media. They are grateful for any shread of praise, however left-handed.

This is not a positive article.


46 posted on 11/13/2013 7:24:10 AM PST by Puzzleman ("Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. " -- Edmund Burke)
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To: tuffydoodle

Added!


47 posted on 11/13/2013 7:25:37 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: LibLieSlayer

48 posted on 11/13/2013 8:17:14 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala; All

March 2013: Ted Cruz at CPAC: I Would Not Be in Senate Without Sarah Palin

49 posted on 11/13/2013 8:30:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Rodamala

Those are the people that I am part of... the rest of dc... no way! GOD bless the righteous!


50 posted on 11/13/2013 10:16:34 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Yes, he’s impressive!


51 posted on 11/13/2013 4:24:49 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless Americadd)
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To: LibLieSlayer

From your lips to God’s ears.


52 posted on 11/13/2013 4:27:27 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: pax_et_bonum

Indeed!


53 posted on 11/14/2013 4:08:27 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: rabidralph

Amen!


54 posted on 11/14/2013 4:08:36 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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