Posted on 07/24/2015 2:37:36 PM PDT by Isara
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It's impossible to look at the senator's vehement speech -- which our veteran man on the Hill, Paul Kane, said was "unlike anything I've ever seen" -- outside of the context of Cruz's presidential campaign.
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If it is purely a coincidence that the Bozell endorsement was released an hour before Cruz made headlines by attacking McConnell over the same issue, it's an extremely fortuitous one. (Editor's note: There are no coincidences in politics. At least not ones like this.) Cruz was reacting to McConnell's actions on the floor, but likely had some sense of where the wind was blowing. Not that Cruz never offered vehement floor speeches before he was running for president, of course, but in the scramble for headlines in the Trump-dominated moment, this was a pretty good two-fer.
It's also worth picking up another point made by Kane on Twitter. As noted above, Cruz has repeatedly refused to criticize Trump, ostensibly because he won't play the "media game" pitting Republican against Republican. "In my time in the Senate I haven't impugned the character of Republicans or Democrats and I don't intend to start today," he told Bloomberg's Mark Halperin on July 18.
He intended to start a week later.
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Yep. Worth noting that Cruz has NOT bashed Trump and if anything, has been complimentary towards him.
Cruz is playing it smart.
BTW, Kimberly Guilfoyle needs to lighten up on the plastic surgery. She is scary looking.
Cruz may have planned this all along, starting with his original trade agreement vote. He knew damn well he was being lied to. But he’s a Senator under Congressional pressure to conform with the filth of that lying Body. If they can’t smear him with anything else, they’ll smear him with simply being a Senator. So perhaps he felt he needed to cut those ties in the public’s “eye,” in triplicate, in order to win the Presidency - but make sure he’s seen as the betrayed victim.
Sharp cookie.
Trump started the ball rolling, Col West FIRED US UP yesterday and Cruz today
OK ... so far I have Cruz (pres), Trump (SOS) and West (JCOS)
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She is a dynamite fit for the leg-shot position at the table, though.
Agreed. Cruz is smart.
Unllike Lindsay Graham.
After Trump released Graham’s cell phone number, Graham should have put a positive campaign message on it, and thanked Trump at the end.
Instead, he throws a tantrum and smashes his phone, basically proving he’s not smart enough to be POTUS.
Put a campaign message on it, and thank Trump for steering voters to it.
That’s the smart thinking.
But Graham smashed his 1999 era Jitterbug folding phone instead.
The leg shot table on The Five or Red Eye?
Shame what happened to Red Eye.
Used to be the best political talk show on TV
It’s not the same without his “repulsive sidekick” Bill Schultz.
The leg-shot position on The Five.
Agreed. I found the ending anticlimactic. Two thumbs down.
Kimberly needs to cut her hair too.
KG on display everyday on ‘Outnumbered’. View in HD with sound on mute.
The Committee Chair, Senator Capito, looked like she might have had a hemorrhoid attack by the end of Cruz’ speech.
“If it is purely a coincidence that the Bozell endorsement was released an hour before Cruz made headlines by attacking McConnell..”
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Got your facts wrong again, WashPo. Bozell’s endorsement right here on FR, 12 hours earlier.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3315956/posts
Seems like things ended amicably between Schutlz and Gutfeld:
He is one totally sharp dude. He brings it.
To fight these lying scum you have to play their game better than they do. He probably has more functioning brain cells than Boehner and McConnell put together. (I hope he has good security. Probably as vicious as the drug cartels.)
Yertle has no character to impugn.
Just caught a sound byte of Cruz laying down the law.
The more I see him, the more I like him.
Still going to enjoy the Trump media circus though.
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