Posted on 07/28/2015 9:27:19 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Mitch McConnell is facing truckloads of criticism after he blocked a law that would defund Planned Parenthood, including from presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who called McConnell a liar on the Senate floor (and rightly so). And for some insane reason, this apparently made Brit Hume at Fox News lose his mind, because Hume decided to respond by attacking Cruz and labeling him a hypocrite.
Hi, Bret. The first thing you need to know about Ted Cruz’s assault on Mitch McConnell is that it’s not about ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell. It’s about ted Cruz and Donald Trump. Cruz entered the presidential race as the renegade hero of the anti-establishment right, the man who would call out his party’s leadership for what he considered their weak-kneed ways. He raised some serious money early on, but his campaign never quite took off.
Then along comes Donald Trump who not only cruised past Cruz but everyone else in the Republican field. He did it while attacking his fellow republicans with abandon. When Trump himself was under attack for denigrating John McCain’s war record, Cruz refused to criticize Trump. He insisted his stance was born of fidelity to the eleventh commandment made famous by Ronald Reagan, thou shall not speak ill of any fellow republican. Last Thursday on this channel he went so far as to tell Neil Cavuto “scripture teaches that if someone visits evil upon you, you should repay them in kindness”. That’s from first peter, chapter 3.
Two days later ted Cruz is on the Senate floor calling Republican leader McConnell a liar. So much for Ronald Reagan and so much for Saint Peter.
It may have shown Cruz to be an obvious hypocrite, but for one day at least he trumped Trump and that means mission accomplished.
Is Trump paying Hume off or something? Because absent that, this entire rant is completely nonsensical and makes no sense — why should we not call out GOP leadership when they renege on a promise and so utterly fail us?
I agree! Some of these guys are paying way too much attention to Krauthammer, Will, etc. All of a sudden, people want their “star” to rise, so it is okay to decapitate a solid conservative so that it makes you look not so freaking conservative. I always liked Hume, but this turned my stomach!
Brit is long overdue for a comeuppance. Once he left his regular scheduled show he seemed to come out of the closet.
The Rove, McCain, Graham, GOP-E, Propaganda Channel also named FOX NEWS hasn’t been on my TV in a long time. Nor any other TV Network News for that matter.
I totally disagree.
Well .. it seems to be the pattern for FOX these days.
Don’t watch all that often anymore; I can’t stand listening to same old ultra radical leftists who populate all the panels. Boring.
And .. it’s an insult to my intelligence to be subjected to that constant radical garbage. Up is down, down is up, right is bad, left is good. Disgusting. That assumes that I’m too stupid to figure it out.
Feel free to do so, you will catch on soon enough.
Oh come on. You can’t see politcal theatre? Listen, I like Cruz and think he would make an excellent choice. He is just doing what he needs to do to establish himself as the person who is against the so called establishment and he is doing a good job of it. Hume, just did what any good analysis would do and called it what for what it was.
I don’t EVER “catch on” to bogus POVs.
I’ve watch Brit forever and understand his POV.
Sorry if it hurts your feelings that he’s not a card carrying Tea Party member like myself.
Oh come on, yourself.
What McConnell did, lying was inappropriate. What Cruz did, criticizing the lie was appropriate.
So what does Brit do? He ignores what McConnell did that was inappropriate and criticizes Cruz for doing what was appropriate.
Anybody with at least half an ounce of objectivity would not do that.
Hume is a cuckservative mouthpiece for the uniparty.
Clearly you don't.
Explain his POV Mr. Wizard.
I agree wIth your point about McConnell and not commenting on it. I guess I was more focused on the politics for the president. Take care.
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