Posted on 03/24/2015 11:35:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For conservative activists, the first day of Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign was a time to gush.
On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh called Cruz’s kickoff speech Monday “masterful” and “flat-out amazing.” Grass-roots pioneer Richard Viguerie called him a “top-tier movement conservative.” And the Tea Party Patriots hailed his entry, saying Cruz had “yielded to no one” in championing its values.
Meanwhile, for Cruz’s Republican colleagues in the Senate, it was a time to equivocate.
“I’m just holding off until I see what the field looks like,” said Daniel Coats (R-Ind.).
“I’m going to support the nominee of the party,” said Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.).
“I just hope he spends a lot of time in Iowa, how’s that?” said Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).
The guarded response from Republicans in the Senate, where Cruz has served just over two years, reflects the presidential ambitions of other senators — Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have openly pondered runs — but also Cruz’s famously sharp-elbowed relationship with his colleagues and the institution he inhabits.
In his short time in the Senate, Cruz has arguably become the most polarizing figure in all of Congress. While he has won the loyalty of some rogue House conservatives and a small group of far-right senators, his tactics have angered many colleagues in both parties.
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Well, these guys are accustomed to cowering in fear of Boehner, McConnell, and Rove.
They won’t offend their martini buddies, not yet anyway.
I tell you what, While I would love to see Ted get the Nomination, if he doesn’t I hope that the nominee (hopefully Scott Walker) would pick Ted Cruz as his running mate. They win 2016 election and then TED CRUZ presides OVER the senate as VEEP! Accordingly, he could choose to preside every day of the week and wouldn’t THAT just piss off the RINOs and LIBS in the senate! HA!
Cruz did NOT act like a freshman senator — he understood his mandate and took it to where it needed to be.
Gonads of brass, just what we need in a President and badly lacking since 2008.
Good. The most out of touch body in the country is not an endorsement he wants.
“pondering” is about as far as linda graham will be able to go
'Nuf said.
A couple more flunkies from the Washington Post weigh in .....
One hundred Senators, 46 are democrats/socialist, of the 54 Republicans 34 or 36 are rinos, that only leaves 18 to 20 Conservatives including Senator Cruz, I believe the Conservatives will begin to step forward, even RP after he’s eliminated.
Yes upsetting the order of things in the Senate is going to fire up so many people to vote against him...”Come on honey. Let’s go vote against Cruz! How dare Cruz upset McCain, Schumer, Reid and Durbin...all of them fine outstanding Senators.!”
Well, frankly, I’d be perfectly happy if everyone in the senate, except for Mike Lee and Jeff Sessions, was replaced by Ted Cruz.
I don’t need or want or have any use for any of them otherwise.
Anyway, Ted Cruz for president!
(And to Hell with the GOP)
If you have no enemies, you aren’t doing anything.
Anyone who didn’t back Cruz in the filibuster should be primaried.
Excellent.
I wouldn’t want many of the current Senators to approve of Cruz, or I wouldn’t trust him.
Actually they'd probably love it, since senate rules give the Vice President no actual power except to cast tie-breaking votes. He couldn't, say, only allow people he agrees with to speak, since he's obliged to allow whoever addresses him first to speak, and he's not allowed to address the senate himself, since he's not a senator.
Sounds like an endorsement to me.
A man who doesn’t get yellow stains on his pants when a Democrat calls him names. How’s that for novel Republican behavior in the Senate??
No wonder the Pubbie eunuchs in the Senate don’t know what to say.
“The guarded response from Republicans in the Senate, where Cruz has served just over two years, reflects the presidential ambitions of other senators — Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) ...”
I couldn’t read past that. Lindsey Graham? Seriously? We are supposed to take this as a serious piece of commentary? No thanks.
Most of these people are OWNED, lock, stock and barrel by the US Chamber of Commerce. Who cares what they say? They don’t actually represent anyone. The opinion of the Man On The Street is far more valuable than these sell outs.
The senate has a single digit job approval rating
He’d better not be liked by them
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