“If the Republican leadership doesn’t like the issues I’m suggesting we fight on, perhaps they can pick something else,” he said. “We don’t win any fights unless we actually engage in the fight, we pick the terrain to fight it, and then we go and take it to the people, and that is something the Republican leadership cannot fathom.”
Sen. Ted Cruz
The only mistake the Senator makes, in what you quote, is in leaving the quotation marks off of Republican “leadership.” A whipped cur with its tail between its legs, is not in any sense a leader.