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Ted Cruz scalded by sick Mitch McConnell burn
salon.com ^ | 2/2/15 | Luke Brinker

Posted on 02/02/2015 11:29:15 AM PST by cotton1706

Say what you will about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, but the man can deliver a joke.

Speaking at Washington’s tony Alfalfa Club dinner on Saturday night, the Republican spared few targets, the New York Times reports. McConnell poked fun at himself, new inductee Mitt Romney, and fellow members of the U.S. Senate, including a particularly incendiary Tea Party Republican from Texas.

McConnell noted that Cruz — the anti-Obamacare crusader who spearheaded the 2013 government shutdown, thereby earning the enmity of many fellow Republicans — had once proclaimed that he would throw himself in front of a moving train, if that’s what killing health reform would take.

“That idea has some merit to it,” a wry McConnell jabbed.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


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To: cotton1706

“...McConnell poked fun at himself, new inductee Mitt Romney, and fellow members of the U.S. Senate, including a particularly incendiary Tea Party Republican from Texas.”

I read this as a light-hearted speech jokingly naming republican politicians both left and right - as is always done at these affairs. I suspect Salon is trying to stir things up, as usual.

Or am I missing something?


41 posted on 02/02/2015 12:34:47 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: dware
they fault lies directly with us, and our willingness to push the party left with our lesser of evils votes.

Careful there, you are getting awful close to sounding like you think we should no longer vote for the "lesser of two". Do that and you'll start hearing the shrieking of "It's your fault the leftisits win!", and "Hillery will be the next president becasue of you".

42 posted on 02/02/2015 12:39:35 PM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Turbo Pig; dware

“It’s your fault the leftisits win!”, and “Hillery will be the next president becasue of you”.


43 posted on 02/02/2015 12:43:00 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Turbo Pig

How about when Hillary trounces Jeb because all the non-perfect contenders got shot in circular firing squads, leaving the mediocre-all-around man standing. This has already happened twice, just the names are different.

Some people will not learn from history.


44 posted on 02/02/2015 12:43:16 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Turbo Pig; bert

You’re damned right we gotta stop voting for the lesser of evils. I’ve been doing it for damn near 30 years and all it’s done is push the party further and further to the left. Hillary wins? You betcha, especially if the GOP puts some rotten filthy leftist like crispy cream or jeb out front. No, truth is, it don’t matter who runs on the GOP ticket at this point. After the sh!t sammich Conservatives got with 2014, it’ll be a cold day in hell when I vote GOP again.


45 posted on 02/02/2015 12:47:54 PM PST by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: elpadre
Or am I missing something?

Wasn't this crackhead pol the one who suggested the GOP was going to crush the Tea Party? Perhaps that's the part you're missing?

46 posted on 02/02/2015 12:49:15 PM PST by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: TexasCajun

Looks like she uses the same barber as Rachel Maddow.


47 posted on 02/02/2015 1:13:58 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: dware

The fact you seem to ignore or perhaps don’t know is that conservatives could not muster the raw political power to prevail to nominate a candidate.

I knew what was going to happen because I could see irrational conservatives right here beating their chests about their principles and dividing the conservative vote on issues that have fallen out of the mainstream.

It is fashionable, even doctrinaire consensus among many , to blame the GOPe. In reality, fragmented conservatives touting their own special interests that lost.

Unless conservatives can drop the nonsense and coalesce around the most conservative candidate, likely a governor, we will lose again.


48 posted on 02/02/2015 1:16:59 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, the idea is in there.


49 posted on 02/02/2015 1:17:03 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: elpadre

You’re not missing anything. The Alfalfa Club dinner is similar in format to the Al Smith dinner up in NYC. It’s only considered bad form if you don’t skewer yourself in the process (as Obama has done on several occasions).

Does someone have the full transcript of McConnell’s speech? Until we do I think it best to presume that Salon is cherry-picking, probably exagerating to stir up Conservatives.


50 posted on 02/02/2015 1:21:27 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: cotton1706

Here they go again trying to blame a “government shut-down” on a backbencher of the minority party


51 posted on 02/02/2015 1:23:51 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Olog-hai

You knew the answers to your question before you asked me. What’s with that?


52 posted on 02/02/2015 1:24:31 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: cotton1706

And “Salon” smearing the name of a real conservative. I can see why “Salon” would enjoy quoting Yertle.


53 posted on 02/02/2015 1:25:01 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: TexasCajun

Is that really the person who wrote this? Or is that his sister?


54 posted on 02/02/2015 1:26:09 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: sickoflibs

self-sacrifice for the cause of freedom?

McConnell would never understand that


55 posted on 02/02/2015 1:26:28 PM PST by GeronL
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To: W.

:)


56 posted on 02/02/2015 1:27:43 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Resettozero

I didn’t expect 1 Timothy 2, frankly. That’s why thanks was due. Romans 13:1-5 is the most common answer I’ve received from most.

And the converse notion, that one must not curse the ruler(s), is brought up more commonly. We are, after all, told to pray for our enemies too (e.g. Matthew 5:44).


57 posted on 02/02/2015 1:29:21 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: bert; dware

Here is the Drudge poll...... conservatives seem to be flocking to the conservative candidate......

He will be beat black and blue by tomorrow by the sanctimonious self righteous here that view life through a paper towel tube
********************************************
YOUR VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

Bush5%10,971 votes

Carson7%16,781 votes

Christie2%3,549 votes

Cruz14%32,038 votes

Fiorina<1%1,092 votes
Huckabee1%3,466 votes

Palin4%8,229 votes

Paul13%29,149 votes

Perry2%3,801 votes

Rubio4%9,017 votes

Santorum1%1,754 votes

Trump1%3,370 votes

Walker47%109,404 votes

232,621 Total Votes

Posted yesterday.


58 posted on 02/02/2015 1:33:07 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert
conservatives could not muster the raw political power to prevail to nominate a candidate.

Agreed. But that just means that whoever DOES get elected is probably just the lesser of evils. If I don't stand on principle, I won't stand for anything. I refuse to hold my nose and vote for the lesser of evils. I've been doing that for the better part of 20 some odd years. All it does is push the party further to the left. That may be ok with you, but it's the very antithesis of everything I stand for and believe, and I refuse to do it any longer.

59 posted on 02/02/2015 1:41:14 PM PST by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: GeronL
RE :”self-sacrifice for the cause of freedom?”

Cruz threw himself in front of a bus?

60 posted on 02/02/2015 1:43:16 PM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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