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Ted Cruz recommends strategy for responding to liberal 'rage'
WE ^ | | September 09, 2019 06:12 PM | John Gage

Posted on 09/10/2019 9:53:28 AM PDT by conservative98

Sen. Ted Cruz urged conservatives to "lighten up" ahead of 2020 in response to "rage" from those on the Left.

"The Left right now, they’re so consumed with rage," the Texas Republican said last weekend at the Faith, Family, and Freedom forum, according to the Houston Chronicle. "They hate the president. It is all-consuming, it’s all they can see. As conservatives, let’s not respond to that. Like, just lighten up. Just have some fun."

"When one party is going nuts, we gotta respond with joy, we gotta respond with smiles," he added.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020election; angrydems; chamberofamnesty; cruz; cruzspeech; goldmansachspuppet; leftists; liberalrage; lyingted; openborders; smile; tedcruz; trump
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To: SolidRedState

Yep. I’ve sparred with those guys on the internet. The best poly is to laugh at them and conceal carry.


41 posted on 09/10/2019 10:42:36 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: coaster123; Lurkinanloomin; MrEdd

“If you’re going to badmouth Cruz, don’t do it on FR!” - Jim Robinson on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3687890/posts


42 posted on 09/10/2019 10:59:53 AM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Jewbacca

Never Cruzers are as bad as Never Trumpers, as bad as the leftists that Ted Cruz is encouraging us to treat light-heartedly. They’re sad and pathetic little people.


43 posted on 09/10/2019 11:00:59 AM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: griswold3
Don’t mud wrestle with a pig stuff..

Partner, it is great advice since these far left Rats are so upset at our great President Trump. Thanks for this comment.

44 posted on 09/10/2019 11:01:08 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: Grimmy

That, I agree with. But we make the mistake of electing the same, worthless RHINOs every single time.


45 posted on 09/10/2019 11:12:48 AM PDT by Tx Angel (Insert witty tagline here)
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To: Theo; coaster123; MrEdd

Pretty sure that expired after he squeaked by Beta Boy.


46 posted on 09/10/2019 11:12:56 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Tx Angel

THAT’s what we have to stop doing.
Flimsey Grahamnesty has voted for amnesty THREE times.


47 posted on 09/10/2019 11:14:19 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jewbacca

The primaries are long over, and Ted is still counseling a non confrontational policy with the hard left.

The policy he advocates now validates every criticism he received in the election.

No I don’t join him in pacifist subservience.


48 posted on 09/10/2019 11:18:53 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: conservative98

“When one party is going nuts, we gotta respond with joy, we gotta respond with smiles,” he added.
***********
Smiles and gimmicks won’t do it. Neither will personal attacks and rage of our own. We need to respond with issues and truth, backed by research and presented by good talking points.


49 posted on 09/10/2019 11:22:56 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: conservative98

Cruz bump for later.....


50 posted on 09/10/2019 11:25:12 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And he barely squeaked by Whitey O’Rourke because of this kind of position.

Cruz has to be replaced in order for the Republicans to hold that Senate seat long term. Texas is not Massachusetts, and you can’t hold it with a Massachusetts style Republican.


51 posted on 09/10/2019 11:34:49 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Theo

They are his words. They are facts. Do you want them buried?

It is you who sees a recounting of his history as a smear.


52 posted on 09/10/2019 11:35:33 AM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: conservative98

The only time Liberals laugh and smile is when they imagine confiscating our guns.


53 posted on 09/10/2019 11:38:59 AM PDT by Gritty (The Left will always hate you, so stop caring about their lies. - Kurt Schlichter)
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To: coaster123

You said, “Traitor. No forgiveness ever.”

The founder of this site said, “If you’re going to badmouth Cruz, don’t do it on FR.”

It’s probably time for you to defer to Jim Robinson, rather than to your bitterness.


54 posted on 09/10/2019 11:39:05 AM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

You miss the point.

I smile as I wear my red Trump cap.

Happy greetings:

Another great MAGA day!

Have a nice MAGA day!


55 posted on 09/10/2019 11:43:12 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: conservative98

I love Ted; he’s one of the best. But we need to be willing to combat the left aggressively, even as we’re smiling at them.

Study Alinsky. Use it against them. Do it with a smile.


56 posted on 09/10/2019 11:54:00 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Theo

What bitterness is that, Theo? Kinda unhappy that you’d employ a smarmy implication to disparage me.


57 posted on 09/10/2019 12:15:14 PM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Hit them back when they hit you and do it with a smile, time and again, but doing nothing like Bush is not an option. Bush won because the two opponents he faced were so obnoxious the country couldn’t stand them and by default we got him and he proved you cannot let them pummel you without a response and be successful.

Rove you are an idiot! Bush Republicanism is a LOSER!


58 posted on 09/10/2019 12:26:12 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: coaster123

Again, you said, “Traitor. No forgiveness ever.”

Those are the words of someone who holds a grudge, i.e., someone who is bitter.

I implore you to embrace Jim’s request to just let such bitterness go. Move on. Let’s fight the enemy, not each other.


59 posted on 09/10/2019 1:06:55 PM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Tx Angel

But we make the mistake of electing the same, worthless RHINOs every single time.

***************

The professional political system, as it has existed, has been a filtering system used and meant only to ensure that no one was allowed near any real position of power unless they were proven loyal to the money that got them there.


60 posted on 09/10/2019 1:36:09 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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