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Graham: Cruz threw GOP 'under the bus' with shutdown
MSN News ^ | January 19, 2016 | David Jackson

Posted on 01/19/2016 1:37:33 PM PST by detective

When Lindsey Graham began running for president last year, some analysts thought he was looking to knock out Rand Paul over foreign policy differences.

Now, as an ex-candidate, Graham seems to be taking aim at Ted Cruz.

"I have no doubt that he would be an ideologue in the eyes of most Americans," Graham said of Cruz during an interview Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends. "He's been the most disruptive influence in the senate, he hasn't passed anything meaningful."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Florida; US: Kentucky; US: New York; US: South Carolina; US: Texas
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To: detective

Graham couldn’t help GOPe by syphoning votes in SC, so he’s on to Plan B. He’s a sad little man.


21 posted on 01/19/2016 1:51:07 PM PST by FourPeas (Chocolate, sugar and lots of caffeine. Hard to beat that.)
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To: detective

[[Graham: Cruz threw GOP ‘under the bus’ with shutdown]]

The GOP threw American’s under the bus when they went along with Obama’s agenda . He really is entirely clueless how much the average American is fed up with him and the rest of the clowns in congress.


22 posted on 01/19/2016 1:51:26 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: Nachum

He may still flip.


23 posted on 01/19/2016 1:51:38 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: cdga5for4

Crusz is the only one with nads.


24 posted on 01/19/2016 1:52:05 PM PST by JessieHelmsJr (Tree hugging liberals call it global warming. We call it summertime. FUBO!!! Cruz 2016!!!!!)
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To: detective

Graham conveniently forgets that Cruz’s “stunt” may have been one of the most important factors in the GOP electing a majority in 2014 (not that it matters much during omnibus bills, apparently).


25 posted on 01/19/2016 1:53:18 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Front or back?


26 posted on 01/19/2016 1:55:13 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: detective

And the GOP came out from under that bus to win the most power the party has had, nationally and at the State level, since 1928, almost entirely on promises and the expectation that the fight against Obama and the Democrats would follow Cruz’s example. Linda, you’re a fag.


27 posted on 01/19/2016 1:56:12 PM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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To: detective

Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey ... you ignorant sl*t. If Cruz threw the gOpee ‘under the bus’, why did the party have such an historical victory following that at the 2014 polls?! Hmmm?


28 posted on 01/19/2016 1:57:17 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: ifinnegan

Wasn’t some sort of protest allowed at the WW2 memorial but shut out veterans from entering?


29 posted on 01/19/2016 1:57:21 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: GrouchoTex
Graham conveniently forgets that Cruz's "stunt" may have been one of the most important factors in the GOP electing a majority in 2014

So taking over the Senate and increasing the House majority was a bad thing? Only to the GOPe, Linda.

30 posted on 01/19/2016 1:59:37 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: detective

Soon this attack will be echoed by trump the clinton donor


31 posted on 01/19/2016 2:00:12 PM PST by RginTN
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ...
and from the FRchives:
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"
I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.
[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]

32 posted on 01/19/2016 2:00:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: detective
Graham: Cruz threw GOP 'under the bus' with shutdown

GOOD! Because those F***ers need to be thrown under the bus, and the bus needs to drive back and forth over them as necessary to eradicate them as a problem.

Republicans should have ATTACKED the media with every means at their disposal instead of letting the media turn the shut down against them.

They have made Left wing Liberal Democrats from New York into their masters instead of slapping the arrogant little bitches down as they need to be slapped down!

Republicans learned the WRONG lesson from the shutdown. They should have learned who their enemy was and that they need to be fought in every manner possible. Instead they learned how to beg the media not to hurt them and how to whimper that "they won't ever do such a thing again."

Someone punch that aging faggot Lindsey in the mouth. It's way past time he got his face pasted for opening up his yap.

33 posted on 01/19/2016 2:01:41 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: detective

It failed because the GOP has no balls. They are clearly maneuvering to get rid of Cruz as they have never liked him. He has nothing in his past to be blackmailed, so he is unfit for command. We will get Rubio v Biden, mark my words. Trump will dump out when the “chosen two” are set for an unspecified illness, or just because.


34 posted on 01/19/2016 2:01:57 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (Go Cruz GO, scare the RINO's to death)
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To: detective

Funny how the shutdown was such a disaster for the GOP that they had one of the biggest elections in their history the next year... I guess they can blame all those seats they gained on Ted Cruz as well...


35 posted on 01/19/2016 2:03:30 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: RginTN
Soon this attack will be echoed by trump the clinton donor

Too late, it already has been.

36 posted on 01/19/2016 2:04:28 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Liberty Valance

The Republicans should have followed up the shutdown, with layoff notices for “non-essential” personnel. Seriously, the number of Federal employees could be cut by half and no one would notice but those looking for real work.


37 posted on 01/19/2016 2:06:41 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (Go Cruz GO, scare the RINO's to death)
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To: NorthMountain
Seppuku, Lindsey.

He doesn't have the guts for that, either.

38 posted on 01/19/2016 2:07:19 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

“Somebody give Linda a wedgie. Please.”
Haha. I’d pay to see that.


39 posted on 01/19/2016 2:12:37 PM PST by Durbin
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To: detective

Um . . . no - the GOP through Cruz under the bus by not backing him.


40 posted on 01/19/2016 2:18:30 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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