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Kim Strassel [WSJ]: Another Misguided Cruz Missile
The Wall Street Journal Online ^ | February 21, 2014 | Kim Strassel

Posted on 02/21/2014 9:58:52 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi

Ted Cruz is aiming for Mitch McConnell, but he may blow up the GOP's chances for a Senate majority in November.

A rump band of Beltway conservatives has seen the enemy and it is not Harry Reid. It is Mitch McConnell, whose scalp is apparently worth blowing yet another shot at a Republican Senate majority.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: cruz; senate; teaparty
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To: House Atreides

They attack the TEA Party and then complain that we don’t support their guys?


21 posted on 02/21/2014 10:16:10 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Tula Git
I’d rather spend our resources going after democrats.

I'm with you.

22 posted on 02/21/2014 10:16:14 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Zuben Elgenubi; P-Marlowe; SoConPubbie

Another blatant attack on Ted Cruz.

Their beef: Cruz is attacking McConnell and the Tea Party is attacking incumbents.

This author is out of sorts because the incumbents are leading, so leave them alone, you only make them vulnerable to their democrat opponents.


23 posted on 02/21/2014 10:17:23 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

If McConnel wins his primary we may lose the seat in Kentucky. I am in Texas and will never vote for Cornyn even in the general so I wonder how many tea party people in Kentucky feel the same way about Mitch. While the Senate seat in Texas is likely to go to the pubbies no matter what I understand that Yurtle is polling behind his democrat challenger in Kentucky.


24 posted on 02/21/2014 10:18:09 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: txhurl

I expect Peggy Noonan will be up next with a Cruz hit piece.

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lolol

Is she still around? Didn’t she used to be relevant?


25 posted on 02/21/2014 10:18:38 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

If we win the senate and McConnell is at the helm it won’t make any difference.

We have to get rid of him to as a badly needed message to the rest.


26 posted on 02/21/2014 10:19:06 AM PST by marron
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To: Tula Git
I’d rather spend our resources going after democrats.

Yes...and those who act like Dems....like Midge, Bonehead, McStain, McGrahamnesty and McCornyn. They do us as much good as the Dems do. Sen Cruz and conservatives know this.

27 posted on 02/21/2014 10:19:18 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

She is still around but relevent?... eh.. not really


28 posted on 02/21/2014 10:20:28 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Are the Dems funding a Libertarian in Kentucky?

I see a “Clintonian plurality” win in their future.


29 posted on 02/21/2014 10:20:34 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hard to believe she was Reagan’s speechwriter.


30 posted on 02/21/2014 10:20:53 AM PST by txhurl
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Interesting and stupid. Voters have followed the GOP establishment for years and are once again ask to follow this stupid and ignorant group. And where has following them taken us? To the precipice of disaster. Why anyone would believe this time it would result in a new and better outcome is dumber than a rock and not near as useful. Wake-up Americans, the politicians (both groups) are taking us on a road to hell. A government too big, too expensive, too greedy, too corrupt, too invasive, too controlling, too many employees, too incompetent and thus too un-American.


31 posted on 02/21/2014 10:21:43 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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To: Mariner

What’s the point in “our side” winning a majority if the folks gaining the power don’t represent “our side”?

GOPe has to go as much as the Dems do.


32 posted on 02/21/2014 10:22:32 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: marron
We have to get rid of him to as a badly needed message to the rest.

Look at how well it worked with that old RINO Dick Lugar...

33 posted on 02/21/2014 10:22:39 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: xzins

“...This author is out of sorts because the incumbents are leading, so leave them alone, you only make them vulnerable to their democrat opponents.”
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Not true. Have you checked out the polls on Mitch McConnell and the Kentucky Senate race this year. The self-centered and self-deluded McConnell could well cost the Republicans a Senate seat this year if he prevails in the primary.


34 posted on 02/21/2014 10:22:42 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

It’s starting to look like there’s come collaboration going on with these hit pieces this week...Sowell, Coulter, and now Strassel.


35 posted on 02/21/2014 10:23:04 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
I'm not sure what happened to Ms Strassel. She's been pro TEA Party in prior articles.

It looks like the GOP-e are calling in all their markers - in panic, from the looks of it - to save the faux "conservatives" at the top of the Senate Septic Tank, and in doing so are outing some beltway journos that have been doing with their columns what McConnell and Cornyn (and Hatch, and...) have been doing with cloture. The camouflage just isn't as effective as it used to be.

Thomas Sowell has surprised and disappointed me this time around, although Ann Coulter has already proven to be chronically (and hopelessly) infatuated with all things RINO.

Mr. niteowl77

36 posted on 02/21/2014 10:23:15 AM PST by niteowl77 ("Why do we go to Iowa? Because that's where the suckers are.")
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To: nascarnation

The defenders of the GOPe have appeared.


37 posted on 02/21/2014 10:23:27 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

I assumed he meant the race with the primary opponents, but you are correct about McConnell and Grimes. I think she’s now leading...at a minimum she’s drawn even with McConnell.


38 posted on 02/21/2014 10:24:13 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Ted Cruz is aiming for Mitch McConnell, but he may blow up the GOP's chances for a Senate majority in November.

I think that Ted Cruz is trying to prevent the Establishment Republicans from self destruction, with predictable consequences in November.

Ted Cruz represents what most Americans think, especially those who still can think. Every time a Republican decides to be a Democrat-lite he loses. To Democrats bi-partisanship is agreeing with them, with a meaningless token change thrown their way.

We are already traveling at warp speed toward totalitarianism.

39 posted on 02/21/2014 10:26:22 AM PST by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I guess we’re supposed to sit and observe incoming round after incoming round.

Hey, Kim: We didn’t start this.


40 posted on 02/21/2014 10:27:10 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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