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.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I thought someone else was smacking you down, and then I saw you were smacking down yourself.
Bravo!
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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.
That was very well written article...thanks.
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!
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.
Added!
Those are the people that I am part of... the rest of dc... no way! GOD bless the righteous!
Yes, he’s impressive!
From your lips to God’s ears.
Indeed!
Amen!
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