[cotton1706]

Roger Wicker and Mitch McConnell don't want any conservatives on the inside to leak their anti-conservative plans.

[Tupelo]

Surprise. Surprise! SURPRIZE!

[Crazieman]

I have a couple thousand dollars ready for Cruz’s presidential run.

[C. Edmund Wright]

That’s true....but the real reason behind this? Cruz has plans in 2016 other than a Senate majority campaign......

[ilgipper]

The shut down damaged the brand so much they routed their opposition a year later. The biggest rout in modern history.

[deweyfrank]

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. I'm tired of this crap, that the shutdown damaged the GOP brand in 2013. We had a landslide victory in 2014, did we not?

[Servant of the Cross]

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.

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!

[Baldwin77]

GO CRUZ !!! Pizzing off all the “right” people !!!

[Ann Archy]

ROGER WICKER?? Are you freaking KIDDING me!!! He’s a NOTHINGBURGER.

[YukonGreen]

Why would liberal RINOs want a conservative Republican in their midst. Look at the names connected with the outrage and blackballing a person.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[stars & stripes forever]

“I think we’ll be releasing some names in the next week of people willing to do this.”...

The Rhinos are regrouping.

[duffee]

I live in Mississippi, Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions are my Senators. POrw,tc&mm

[Servant of the Cross]

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.

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 ...

Conservatives fear that Republicans, with their eyes on 2016 and their ears on professional political consultants, have drawn the wrong lesson from last November’s good fortune. Voters are not suddenly infatuated with Republicans. Voters are alarmed at the direction in which President Obama is taking the country, and they elected the only available alternative.

The fate of 2016’s race for the White House will be decided by how well Republicans heed the mandate of 2014’s referendum on Obama’s policies. Will Republicans use the next two years to stop the president? If, instead, they use the next two years to further enable the president’s fundamental transformation of the United States, they will not have convinced the country that they can govern. They will have convinced their base that they are not worthy of support.

[NormsRevenge]

I’m shocked I tell ya, just shocked!

WE’ve been GOPe-ified.

[txhurl]

“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.

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We should put up a betting pool on who the squishes will be.

[sport]

Now, now, now, now Do you not realize that Mitch McConnell is the pride of Republican Voters in Kentucky.