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Rand Paul and Ted Cruz: Co-workers from hell
Wash. Post ^ | 4/9/15 | J. Rubin

Posted on 04/09/2015 8:54:39 AM PDT by VinL

Conservatives have lambasted New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose sometimes over-the-top behavior has been captured on video, as a “bully.” They castigate the president for being aloof and arrogant. But when it comes to two conservative favorites, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), the right-wing suddenly tolerates all manner of bad and alarming conduct.

Paul reminded us yesterday what a low threshold for criticism and mildly probing questions he has. He has demonstrated that behavior over and over and also wound up in hot water for hiring and briefly defending the Southern Avenger, for plagiarizing speeches and for playing it too cute by half with his “board certification.” Isn’t this a problem for someone who wants to lead a country, end dysfunction inside the Beltway and presumably work with Congress to obtain desired ends? If you don’t work well with others and can’t abide by nettlesome rules (like citing others whose words you use), it becomes difficult to govern, which Paul has never had to do. (He has run a medical practice and a Senate office, which doesn’t exactly prepare him as chief executive.)

Cruz, of course, has picked fights consistently with colleagues, misled them on an ill-advised shutdown and become famous by denouncing other Republicans as sellouts. His burning ambition and lack of cooperative legislating give the impression that everything he does is calculated to advance his career and enhance his ego rather than to bolster the party or the movement.

In other words [snip]

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KEYWORDS: cruz; paul; paulcruz; randpaul; tedcruz
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To: VinL

Of course, this ass-hat of a journalist has no problem with the narcissist-in-chief.


21 posted on 04/09/2015 9:11:05 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: VinL

JenRube, presstitute for the D.C. Republican establishment, shows her ignorance again. Jen is certainly a one-note songbird, and it’s off key.


22 posted on 04/09/2015 9:16:33 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: VinL

meh......

I stand with Ted


23 posted on 04/09/2015 9:17:45 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: SoConPubbie

Understand something about Rand Paul - not a conservative, and only is congruent with a few points with what conservatives believe. First and foremost, Rand Paul is libertarian, a rather different breed of cat, and moves from a different base than most conservatives.

It would be natural with others from a distance, to sort of conflate the two. And most of the time, conservatives do overlap a lot with libertarians. The conservative, though, bases his (or her) concept of the world from what has been recorded and found to be a basic underlying set of truths, tested by experience and with reliable applications being proven right every time they are tried.

Libertarians differ in that their reaction to strange or uncomfortable newly formulated schemes in largely rejecting them, because these ideas almost always involve greater and greater intrusions in personal live and in decision making, and the response to most of this intrusion is “Get off my back!”

Sure, they can agree on a lot, but still, most conservatives consider most libertarians to be rather sloppy and unfocused in their methods and reasoning, and libertarians consider conservatives to be sort of stuffed shirts.


24 posted on 04/09/2015 9:18:47 AM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: Nifster

Satan is the father of lies. It is his desire that we believe good is evil and evil is good.


25 posted on 04/09/2015 9:20:33 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: VinL

Simply a lying liar lying.


26 posted on 04/09/2015 9:22:14 AM PDT by CSM
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To: VinL

I just love it. Two Republicans having the temerity to get in the face of the MSM drive by’s and the RINOe’s. Oh the outrage. :-)


27 posted on 04/09/2015 9:22:29 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: alloysteel
Understand something about Rand Paul - not a conservative,

Yeah, he is rino like, that is one reason that he loses his cool so easy, he is trying to convey an overall image that is false, and cannot hold up to having his words and positions examined.

28 posted on 04/09/2015 9:30:03 AM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: VinL

Note how they focus on how Ted and Rand treat their “collegues” in congress, as if you are supposed to treat other senators as “Co-workers working for the SAME company”..... This is not true they are working for SEPRATE companies called their HOME STATE!

Senators are SUPPOSED TO WORK FOR THEIR OWN STATE, NOT “THE STATE”!!!!!!

Of course the headline of the article implies that both Ted and Rand are abusive towards their own staffers, when instead the article whines about them daring to DO THE JOB THEY WERE SENT TO WASHINGTON TO DO!!!!

DOING THEIR JOB PROPERLY means that they will at times PISS OFF the other senators!


29 posted on 04/09/2015 9:35:32 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: VinL
Hey Jen Rubin! You really work for the DNC, not the Compost...es verdad?

5.56mm

30 posted on 04/09/2015 9:36:10 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: VinL
Rand Paul and Ted Cruz: Co-workers from hell

They are the ones who want everyone to get the work done rather than sitting around, drinking coffee and playing grab ass all day. Some might call that leadership.

31 posted on 04/09/2015 9:36:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: VinL
Jennifer Rubin, like most neoconservatives, is a fraud.

She is not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination, her views fit squarely with where liberal Democrats were in the 1970's and 80's: socially liberal but not radical, pro-welfare state albeit in moderation, pro-Israel (as opposed to the anti-Israel drift in today's Left), and pro-open borders. She basically wants the Republican Party to be the Democratic Party of 30 or 40 years ago, so no wonder the McCain, Mitt, Christie and Jeb are "serious" candidates while Cruz or Paul are not. Cruz isn't "serious" about turning the GOP into an 80's version of the Democratic party.

32 posted on 04/09/2015 9:37:36 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: VinL

[ Cruz, of course, has picked fights consistently with colleagues, misled them on an ill-advised shutdown and become famous by denouncing other Republicans as sellouts. His burning ambition and lack of cooperative legislating give the impression that everything he does is calculated to advance his career and enhance his ego...]

Ted Cruz has a giant Ego????

That is news to me, because if he does it is a candle next to the sun compared to Obama’s Ego....

Typical Lib Projection..


33 posted on 04/09/2015 9:38:41 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: All
Conservatives have lambasted New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose sometimes over-the-top behavior has been captured on video, as a “bully.”

I've never heard that as the basis of any conservative criticism. Never. Only that he's an Obama-lover.
34 posted on 04/09/2015 9:39:18 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: VinL

As Rush just said, this is a build up to promote the “female” candidate Hillary. MSM will send female reporters after republican candidates, editorializing instead of asking questions. Be prepared!


35 posted on 04/09/2015 9:44:05 AM PDT by entropy12 (Real function of economists is to make astrologers look respectable.)
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To: alloysteel
Understand something about Rand Paul - not a conservative, and only is congruent with a few points with what conservatives believe. First and foremost, Rand Paul is libertarian, a rather different breed of cat, and moves from a different base than most conservatives.

Cruz is a traditionalist, Rand is a libertarian. Both are preferable to the Rockefeller and/or Neoconservative wings of the GOP represented by Christie and Jeb.

36 posted on 04/09/2015 9:44:29 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: VinL

lol, Rand Paul stood up for himself against an interviewer who was merely pushing the democratic playbook and that’s called a “low threshold for criticism”? What he did was refreshing.

Cruz doesn’t play well with others because he disagrees with the establishment wing of the Republican party?

Yep, she has those two figured out!/s


37 posted on 04/09/2015 9:45:04 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: VinL

I am weakening. If I read one more J Ruben anti-Cruz/Paul article, that’s it. I am voting for Hillary’s nipples.


38 posted on 04/09/2015 9:47:06 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: VinL
In particular, women voters may find them off-putting. (Pollster Whit Ayres likes to say that when women voters see purveyors of a harsh, anti-government message, they may see “images of their ex-husband“).

Oh my goodness. Critics of big government. We can't have that. We're Neocons - we like big government, just a tad smaller than the Democrats.

Ms. Rubin is what I call a cocktail party conservative, a liberal host can invite them without upsetting the rest of the "bien pensants"

39 posted on 04/09/2015 10:03:14 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: USNBandit

[One huge asset of Cruz is his ability to wade into the viper’s nest and keep his cool.]

All that hard work on the college debate team has paid off.


40 posted on 04/09/2015 10:13:44 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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