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Bennett: McConnell Has 'Isolated' Cruz and the Tea Party
Utah Policy ^ | November 17, 2014 | Bryan Schott

Posted on 11/18/2014 12:55:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 728b

Yea and they will be begging us to vote for them in 2016 when they drag out old hasbeens, Romney , Mccain or jeb.


61 posted on 11/18/2014 3:42:11 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As I pointed out before the election, it would have been in the countries best interest if McConnell lost.


62 posted on 11/18/2014 4:12:32 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bennett SHUT THE F UP. You lost go away...


63 posted on 11/18/2014 4:58:05 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course. Anyone who witnessed the last election knows the Tea Party is dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. I mean, except for gaining a net 17 seats we ran for. Oops...


64 posted on 11/18/2014 5:14:13 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

McConnell will be up Pres. Cruz’ butt so far he’ll probably suffocate.


65 posted on 11/18/2014 5:29:54 PM PST by alstewartfan (A bear won't treat you so You're satisfied to know When he chews you up he still respects you! Al S.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The grapes are sour with this one.


66 posted on 11/18/2014 6:10:16 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Life’s a b*tch for a washed up GOPe pogue. He has to buy his own cocktails now.


67 posted on 11/18/2014 6:13:13 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one here may like what Bennett said but it’s the reality. Within the Senate, Cruz/Lee are pretty much isolated. That’s indisputable. So they can go to the American public .. but what media platform will carry their message?


68 posted on 11/18/2014 6:44:11 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA
Within the Senate, Cruz/Lee are pretty much isolated. That’s indisputable. So they can go to the American public .. but what media platform will carry their message?

If just under half the Senators in the Republican caucus are willing to follow Cruz' lead, he's not "isolated" -- even though the left and the GOPe would prefer to present him as such.

Notably, his "personal caucus" includes many House members, as well.

Cruz has access to the same media platform that is available to any Republican -- talk radio and conservative print. He won't get Jeb Bush/Mitt Romney/Chris Christie from the MSM, but who wants it?

69 posted on 11/18/2014 6:53:36 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Finny

So, you would have me hold my nose and vote for the phony conservative, Rand Paul, who the new John McCain, and media darling, who has been traveling around pushing Progressive social justice.

Do you really think that social justice is a small government concept?


70 posted on 11/18/2014 7:00:17 PM PST by Eva
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To: okie01

“If just under half the Senators in the Republican caucus are willing to follow Cruz’ lead, he’s not “isolated””

That’s a mighty big “If.” Are you saying there are/will be 26+/- GOP Senators willing to go along with Cruz vs. McConnell? Who are they? Where were they when Cruz/Lee stood alone filibustering on the Senate floor last summer? I remember maybe 3 in all. If there are 26+/- I’d sure like to know who they are.

House members don’t count. They have no power, nor influence in the Senate where the Leader calls the shots, makes committee/chairman assignments, and sets the agenda determining what comes to the Floor.
There’s a reason not many will buck the Leader. It’s not his good looks.

If Cruz/Lee have access to talk radio/Fox only, they are preaching to the choir. How do you get others to buy into your agenda if they don’t hear it, or even hear of it? If all they hear about you is negative?

These men have their job cut out for them, and there’s no sense deluding ourselves that it’s otherwise.


71 posted on 11/18/2014 7:07:36 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA
That’s a mighty big “If.” Are you saying there are/will be 26+/- GOP Senators willing to go along with Cruz vs. McConnell? Who are they? Where were they when Cruz/Lee stood alone filibustering on the Senate floor last summer? I remember maybe 3 in all. If there are 26+/- I’d sure like to know who they are.

The GOP vote for cloture was 25-19. Thus, besides Cruz, 18 other GOP Senators voted for cloture and against the leadership.

Recall that this turned into a test vote because Susan Collins refused to vote for cloture on her own. Thus, McConnell was put in the position of having to vote for cloture (he had not planned to).

Thus, the vote became a test vote between those supporting Cruz' filibuster and those giving cover to the Minority Leader (e.g., Cornyn changed his vote from Nay to Yay).

Cruz probably added a couple more to his "caucus" in the 2014 election (e.g. Sasse and Ernst).

Cruz is not "isolated".

72 posted on 11/18/2014 9:22:06 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Finny

What strategy do you propose, Finny?


73 posted on 11/19/2014 9:52:32 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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To: Regulator

Cruz and Lee will be setting agendas for decades to come.

And their new friends named Ernst, Lankford, Cotton...and more.


Amen! Praying these newly elected Senators stick to their convictions and DO form a strong force against McConnell/GOPe, as well as the Dims.

Fighting a battle on two fronts isn’t easy. If anyone can do it, Sen Cruz can.


74 posted on 11/19/2014 9:58:13 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly; JRandomFreeper
What strategy do you propose, Finny?

I propose taking Einstein's definition of insanity to heart -- that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, is nuts, THEREFORE it is better strategy to change from YOUR strategy, which I have embraced for more than 30 years only to see the Republican party move ever and ever leftward, to embracing JRandomFReeper's strategy, which is to withhold votes from leftist Republicans.

Your strategy is basically voting "against" the Democrat by voting for the Republican even when that Republican is a functional Democrat the majority of the time. Your strategy of voting for leftist Republicans guarantees regret whether your candidate wins or loses.

My strategy is voting FOR what I want to win. I want limited government politicians to win. My strategy is to vote for something that, if it wins, will make things better.

75 posted on 11/19/2014 1:56:49 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny
Well, I can see your point. Ushering in the fall of America with more haste will definitely shake things up a bit, so to speak. Maybe we can rebuild America from the ash heap left behind, huh? Hell, allowing Obama to win was definitely a vehicle through which this destruction shall come about more rapidly...

And when HITLERY gets though with America...

76 posted on 11/20/2014 3:34:14 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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To: Finny
Though=through

Too early...:-(

77 posted on 11/20/2014 3:35:16 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly; JRandomFreeper; All
All I know, Enigma, is that I have already applied your strategy, and did so for many decades. In California, that meant voting for Schwarzenegger and Whitman, both functional leftist Democrats like Romney, though Arnold wasn't nearly as bad as Romney. And look where THAT got us in California -- Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown is the governor, and in the most recent election, the ONLY opposition he had was a leftist Romney-clone "Republican" Neel Kashkari, so in that race, IF you cast a vote, you WERE VOTING FOR TYRANNY no matter what. A losers' game played by losers -- I opted out and so did two other loyal Republicans I know well; we left that race blank and Brown won, which was fine with me because at least with Brown, what you see is what you get and everybody, friend and foe, knows where they stand with him.

So my NEW strategy, which takes a hell of a lot more guts and courage than my OLD strategy, which is the one you still subscribe to, is to be willing to be accountable for what I vote FOR.

When righteous Christian conservatives voted for the amoral abomination Romney in 2012, they were eloquent in describing what they were voting "against."

They were, and many still are, incapable of owning up to what they voted FOR. But after nearly four decades of voting "against," I have figured out finally that J Random Freeper (reading his back-posts in forum is very enlightening) is CORRECT. The ONLY way to fix this thing is to bite the bullet, muster courage, and vote so that leftist Republicans LOSE every time.

78 posted on 11/21/2014 11:07:57 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

You seem to think I was being sarcastic? I was AGREEING with you, Finny. I am sorry if that was not apparent enough. I honestly think the destruction of this country might actually awaken enough people to effect a positive result.


79 posted on 11/21/2014 1:20:32 PM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly
Getting rid of liberal republicans isn't going to destroy the country. It might save it.

/johnny

80 posted on 11/21/2014 2:05:25 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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