Posted on 10/21/2015 12:10:05 PM PDT by Isara
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His campaign has more cash on hand than that of any other Republican in the hunt. If you add “super PAC” money that’s been officially disclosed so far to the tally, he trails only Jeb and Hillary Clinton.
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He’s the patron saint of lost causes, at least if they bring the spotlight his way. In that sense he’s emblematic of the flamboyantly uncompromising comrades in the so-called Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives, who similarly confuse attention with accomplishment.
All of them, with Cruz as their spiritual leader, have turned petulance into a theory of governing, or rather anti-governing, as they breezily disregard the contradiction of their ravenous lunge to become monarchs of a kingdom that they supposedly want to topple, to gain power over a system that they ostensibly intend to enfeeble.
Cruz doesn’t propose remedies. He performs rants. He’s not interested in collaboration or teamwork. His main use for other politicians, even in his party, is as foils and targets. Paul Ryan got a taste of that over the weekend, when Cruz, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” was asked if Ryan was a true conservative and dodged the question, withholding his blessing.
He should be careful about genuineness versus phoniness, given the problems with his own prairie-populist pose.
Cruz’s law degree is from Harvard and he did his undergraduate work at Princeton, where the 250-year-old debating club that he belonged to is called the American Whig-Cliosophic Society. Cruz’s wife is on leave from a job with Goldman Sachs.
Keep that in mind when he rails against the establishment and the elites. And remember that when someone is as broadly and profoundly disliked as Cruz is, it’s usually not because he’s a principled truth teller.
It’s because he’s frightening.
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Must be getting close to the target. This is flak.
Judge a man by the enemies he makes.
It is hilarious to watch the drive-by’s wet themselves when they talk about Ted Cruz!
The GOPe and MSM are hammering TED CRUZ with ‘scare articles.’
But TED keeps moving up in the polls.
Ok, so he is the patron saint of the Freedom Caucus?
The same group Paul Ryan is wooing to become speaker?????
So if they green light Ryan, we know where Ted stands on immigration.
Oh, they'll compromise, just not over the things that really matter to them. That used to be called conviction.
Not really.
[He’s the patron saint of lost causes, at least if they bring the spotlight his way. In that sense he’s emblematic of the flamboyantly uncompromising comrades in the so-called Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives, who similarly confuse attention with accomplishment.]
This shows how far removed the Republican Party is from the Republican Party in Abraham Lincoln’s day.
to gain power over a system that they ostensibly intend to enfeeble
THE REASON THAT OBAMA SOUGHT THE PRESIDENCY, YOU MEAN?
TO BRING AMERICA DOWN A NOTCH?
“when someone is as broadly and profoundly disliked as Cruz is, it’s usually not because he’s a principled truth teller.”
Ted Cruz is not “broadly and profoundly disliked.” He is very popular and highly respected despite the continual attacks from the MSM. The only people who fear Ted Cruz and constantly attack him are a tiny group of dishonest leftists in Washington and the media.
Ted Cruz is a “principled truth teller.” That is why the disinformation agents and propagandists are trying to destroy him.
Don’t these Communists at the Times not realize that we detest Obama/Hillary far more than they detest Sen. Cruz? We reject them for the evil they promote, a natural by product of their lack of moral character.
-— Ryan got a taste of that over the weekend, when Cruz, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” was asked if Ryan was a true conservative and dodged the question, withholding his blessing -—
Pass the smelling salts. I’m having an attack of the vapors.
The man is mad. Mad, I say.
I have not seen him move up much in the polls. His number today is 6. Usually it is 4. He is not getting the numbers needed to get elected in the primary.
Sen. Cruz isn’t part of the House Freedom Caucus.
Gotta love Ted.
He makes progressive heads explode, rino heads too.
How dare he do what he said he would when he ran for office.
You would think if ted Cruz was going to be a disaster to the Republican presidential race that the liberals would either be silently cheering him on or outwardly propping him, you know like they did with their favorite stooge Romney.
They hate him, no hate is too soft, they LOATHE Ted Cruz because he is a GENUINE THREAT to their POWER!
—— true conservative-—
Is there a true conservative?
i see division and sour grapes and even jealousy within the ranks of conservatives every day
Ironic NYT is calling Cruz flamboyant. Nancy boys!
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