Posted on 01/15/2015 5:12:28 AM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who repeatedly clashed with GOP leaders in the last Congress, has not been asked to return as vice chairman of grassroots outreach for the Senate Republican campaign arm.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said neither Cruz nor Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who was the NRSC’s finance vice chairman in the last election cycle, would serve additional stints in the committee’s leadership.
“No, Rob is up for reelection. We wouldn’t ask him to do that,” Wicker said. “I think we’ll be releasing some names in the next week of people willing to do this.” An NRSC aide said officials typically serve only one term.
“All senators in NRSC leadership commit to serving two-year terms, and the 2014 cycle was no different,” the aide said.
But there have been exceptions, including Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who served as NRSC chairman in the 2010 and 2012 cycles.
And there are several reasons why Senate Republicans might not want Cruz to return to their campaign arm.
He drew the ire of colleagues in 2013 by raising money for the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), which backed primary challengers to now-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sen. Thad Cochran (Miss.).
Cruz attempted to mend fences with angry GOP colleagues by informing them in the fall of 2013 he would no longer help the SCF, but by then some damage had been done.
GOP senators were also miffed with Cruz for demanding that Congress use a 2013 government funding bill to defund ObamaCare, which led to a 16-day government shutdown that damaged the GOP brand.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Surprise. Surprise! SURPRIZE!
I have a couple thousand dollars ready for Cruz’s presidential run.
That’s true....but the real reason behind this? Cruz has plans in 2016 other than a Senate majority campaign......
The shut down damaged the brand so much they routed their opposition a year later. The biggest rout in modern history.
Precisely. The enemedia wants to keep the GOPe in play for 2016.
I get so disgusted when I see, and hear, this over and over ad nauseam in the mainstream media (TV and newsprint). Just how much "damage" was done to your "brand" gOpE?!!! The voting public just gave you both Houses of Congress in a massive repudiation of the government policy of this Administration! The only "DAMAGE" to your precious "brand" is what you have done (or failed to do) since the November elections and continued to abdicate your Constitutional role and permit 0bama to continue his lawlessness.
Viva Senator Ted Cruz!
GO CRUZ !!! Pizzing off all the “right” people !!!
ROGER WICKER?? Are you freaking KIDDING me!!! He’s a NOTHINGBURGER.
Why would liberal RINOs want a conservative Republican in their midst. Look at the names connected with the outrage and blackballing a person.
Let me suggest a website for Ted Cruz that will act like a telethon, in which people can “pledge” money for a Cruz presidential campaign, but not send in any money, yet.
That is, “the check or money order is in an envelope, all ready to mail to the Cruz campaign as soon as he announces”.
The website will be crystal clear that at NO time will they get or forward any money, so they are legal. They will even post when there is an address for Cruz’s campaign HQ, so that people can address and mail their checks.
And then, on the day he announces, they put up a banner headline: SEND IN YOUR CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS TO THE TED CRUZ CAMPAIGN NOW!
So just a few days after he announces, his office is buried in money, giving his campaign huge momentum right out of the gate.
The value of the website is that it is a running account of how popular Ted Cruz is to at least a small part of the Internet that sees the website.
Yes, and I believe that those people are not against any shutdown or budgeting
crisis to get our Government back on track. 2014 WAS a mandate yet nobody will say it.
Now, if Dems had won Obama would be spouting My Mandate all over broadcast news.
Therein lies the weakness of the GOP, weak kneed and not using the soapbox, bully pulpit.
Cruz for 2014 must scare the heck out of the RINOs. A Conservative in the WH
would set back the Communists and RINO's in DC for at least a couple decades.
Cruz must win, if he is what he says he is.
Well said.
“I think we’ll be releasing some names in the next week of people willing to do this.”...
The Rhinos are regrouping.
It is time for change from the 'Uni-party', and yes 2014 was significant.
How many GOP representatives confronted Boehner in 2013, even though they disagreed with him = 0
How many GOP representatives confronted Boehner in 2014, even though they disagreed with him = 23
The difference is cajones , backbone , core values , leadership , and CRUZ !
Wicker is a distant cousin of another old compromiser, Fred Thompson.
I live in Mississippi, Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions are my Senators. POrw,tc&mm
Cross-posting to a great article at NR by Andrew McCarthy. If the gOpE hopes to have a "brand" at all, they better listen to this ...
True. But I highly doubt that McConnell and Cronyn gave him the chance to decline another opportunity to serve. It's likely that they would have dumped him even if he wasn't running for president.
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