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George Will: Ted Cruz Is ‘Completely Indifferent To The Fact That Politics Is A Team Sport’ [VIDEO]
DailyCaller ^ | 15 DEC 14 | Al Weaver

Posted on 12/15/2014 9:13:44 PM PST by South40

One day after saying Elizabeth Warren and Ted Cruz had no idea “what they were trying to accomplish,” syndicated columnist George Will said Monday on “Special Report” the pair have two “exceedingly strange careers underway.”

Will told Fox News’ Doug McKelway that Cruz is “indifferent” to politics being a “team sport,” adding further that there hasn’t been “a more peculiar career” in the Senate than the one Cruz is currently enjoying.

The conservative columnist also said while Democrats are “bemused” by his antics, he is “loathed” within the GOP caucus, while also telling McKelway if Cruz doesn’t get the GOP nomination in 2016, assuming he runs for it, his return to Washington will be “awkward.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: georgewill; gopestablishment; rinos; tedcruz
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To: South40
Coming from a pos like Will Cruz should take that line as a badge of honor.
81 posted on 12/16/2014 4:55:05 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: South40
Republicans and Democrats having a team building dinner to enhance Statism.

Giving proper advice dealing with this "only one team in this league" corruption.


82 posted on 12/16/2014 5:01:15 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: South40

Politics is a team sport, George is just upset that Ted doesn’t change teams once he is in office.


83 posted on 12/16/2014 5:01:17 AM PST by csivils
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To: windsorknot
This ain’t no party...this ain’t no disco...this ain’t no foolin’ round. -Talking Heads

Yep. Life During Wartime.

And yes, this is a war. This is a war that will decide whether the United States survives in any form resembling that which the Founders created. We have very few chances left, maybe only one.

As I see it right now, Ted Cruz is the only one who might be able to reverse the decline, and even then, it will be an almost impossible task.

Is Cruz perfect? No. Will he make mistakes? Of course.

The last perfect man was killed by his government about 2,000 years ago.

84 posted on 12/16/2014 5:01:20 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: South40

Hey George, piss off, and stick to old-timey baseball.


85 posted on 12/16/2014 5:13:33 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: South40
....and George Will fails to realize that legislation which affects life and death, peaceful civilization and violence, prosperity and ruin... is not "sport".

These people (including our legislators) are so far removed from the American people and their plight that they DO view this as a sport.

The "R's" VS the "D's".

"Go our team! Rah, rah rah."

They have completely forgotten that the legislation they are voting on is actually affecting people's lives and does not just serve to give them power over their adversaries.

86 posted on 12/16/2014 5:24:39 AM PST by nitzy
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To: South40
Mom's old adage.......if your friends throw themselves off a cliff, does that mean you should follow them?
87 posted on 12/16/2014 5:29:41 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: South40

It takes a brave man to stand alone against evil.


88 posted on 12/16/2014 5:30:43 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: South40

Politics may be a team sport but sometimes principle means standing alone.


89 posted on 12/16/2014 5:32:27 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: South40
George Will: Ted Cruz Is ‘Completely Indifferent To The Fact That Politics Is A Team Sport’

No he's not. He's just out there showing that the GOPe is playing on the same team as the Democrats, that's all.

90 posted on 12/16/2014 5:38:49 AM PST by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: South40

Poor George. So this is what a RINO neanderthal sounds like as he goes extinct.


91 posted on 12/16/2014 5:43:15 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: South40

George Will. Conservatives Won’t.


92 posted on 12/16/2014 6:01:45 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: South40

“Ted Cruz Is ‘Completely Indifferent To The Fact That Politics Is A Team Sport”

Senator Cruz knows it’s a team sport, he’s leading the Conservative team. Unlike George Will, Senator Cruz realizes that the republicans have become team “Washington Generals” to democrats team “Harlem Globe Trotters”. Senator Cruz would like to re-establish team “Conservative Republican”.


93 posted on 12/16/2014 6:39:46 AM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: South40

George Will is often “loathed” by many for his inside-the-beltway-itis.


94 posted on 12/16/2014 7:05:26 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: South40

If there ever was a badge of honor, being loathed by establishment, big-government types is it.


95 posted on 12/16/2014 7:05:42 AM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: South40
he is “loathed” within the GOP caucus

Loathed by those that WE loathe. Big deal.

96 posted on 12/16/2014 7:09:42 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: South40

Sure, Will, it may be a team sport, so when are the eGOP going to start playing for our side?


97 posted on 12/16/2014 7:09:44 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: South40; All

George Will took the MSM big money and sold out over 20 years ago. It made him rich, but he sold his soul to the devil to do it.


98 posted on 12/16/2014 7:33:00 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Kenny Bunk; SoConPubbie; South40; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; ...

” The fellows on what’s supposed to be our team have been playing for the other side. They have been getting paid to lose; damn well paid, too.”

NAILED it!


99 posted on 12/16/2014 7:37:28 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: South40

I don’t if anyone else knows this. George Will is a BIG TIME Chicago Cubs fan. So when he talks about Cruz not being a “team” player is probably a good thing.


100 posted on 12/16/2014 8:25:10 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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