You just keep right on believing that BS!
You just keep right on believing that BS!
Oh he believes it alright, because he keeps spewing it 24/7.I absolutely think Ted Cruz will not be re-elected. The only way I'd trust him again is if he co-sponsors the amnesty that is coming within a year. And by that time nobody will be calling themselves a Tea Party candidate.
This bears repeating: 2016 polls so far out are really, really silly for trying to get a good sense of who is going to win come Election Day.
But by all means, post these crap shit polls anyway. :silly:The Tea Party can no longer threaten the GOPe and expect to be unchallenged.
The Tea Party can no longer threaten the GOPe and expect to be unchallenged.
Once the primaries are over expect a GOPe response to Cruz, Lee and Sessions.
Until then enjoy the drip drip drip of the weakest opposition research.
The Koch Brothers and other GOP heavyweights have turned off the spigot to the scammers who pretend to be conservative but only attack the GOP. And in politics money matters. The Tea Party is over.
You have that backwards. We're Going to Crush Tea Party Candidates is not the conservatives going after the GOP, but McConnell furthering the divide.
Now that's three times you've posted that animation to me. I feel like you're trying to tell me something.
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Now that's three times you've posted that animation to me. I feel like you're trying to tell me something.
You're a kill-joy Oceander. I take back all the ambiguously nice things I said about you, and I don't know why my side is wearing a blue dress. Red goes so much better with pale skin and gold.
hurm...
"avoided as much hyperbole and rhetoric as possible."
How the hell am I going to score points that way? Intellectually I know GOP infighting is counterproductive, but I don't know how you meet someone halfway when they are proud they do not compromise their principles in the search for solutions. My way or the highway doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room.
Just after Cruz won the Texas seat in 2012, McConnell asked him to join the leadership team at the campaign committee, hoping he would serve as a bridge to tea party activists.
Instead, Cruz turned out to be an irritant. In one of many episodes, he recently attacked “Republican leadership” — that is, McConnell and Cornyn — for helping Democrats quash his effort to filibuster an increase in the federal debt limit.
By that point, he’d been absent for months from the campaign committee, which Cornyn led for four years before his elevation to whip.
The committee’s mission is to maximize the number of Republican senators. Incumbents are the main constituency and source of financial muscle. Cruz says he never signed up to help incumbents survive contested primaries.
But neutrality conveys a meaning, too. His refusal to back Cornyn for re-election left many tea partiers assuming that he disapproved of the senior senator.
How much that stung for Cornyn remains a closely held secret.
He survived the eight-way primary on March 4 with roughly 60 percent. That’s an uninspiring showing for a Texas senator seeking re-election. But assuming he can swat down a Democratic challenge, it was enough to buy him six years of breathing room.
Cornyn loyalists have been less reticent about Cruz. They find it galling that he couldn’t bring himself to support Cornyn’s renomination when the most potent threat came from a congressman — Steve Stockman — who ran such a flaky, fact-free campaign that major tea party groups actively shunned him.
Cornyn downplayed any rift.
“This is just a personal policy of Senator Cruz and isn’t one necessarily shared by other people who enjoy support from that part of our party,” he said.
It’s not just so-called establishment Republicans whom Cruz is rubbing the wrong way.
Last week, a brewing feud burst into view between him and Paul.
Both are eyeing a bid for president in 2016. When Cruz returns to Iowa on Tuesday, he’ll find that Paul just hired the state GOP chairman as an adviser to his political action committee.
They’re fighting for many of the same voters. And they’re starting to throw elbows.
“U.S. leadership is critical in the world,” Cruz said in a national security speech this month in which he critiqued Paul’s foreign policy as overly isolationist.
A few days later, Paul accused Cruz of being “divisive.”
“I'm not real excited about him mischaracterizing my views,” Paul told Fox News. “You know, sometimes, people want to stand up and say, ‘Hey, look at me, I'm the next Ronald Reagan.’ Well, almost all of us in the party are big fans of Ronald Reagan.”
I think Cruz can look forward to zero good committee assignments and his new office is likely to be located between 2 dumpsters in the alley behind the Dirksen bldg.
You just keep right on believing that BS!
Interesting how the GOP awards and punishes. You either kiss ass, or are relegated to the back burner. What a waste of talent!
Projection is a defense mechanism that involves taking our own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people. For example, if you have a strong dislike for someone, you might instead believe that he or she does not like you. Projection works by allowing the expression of the desire or impulse, but in a way that the ego cannot recognize, therefore reducing anxiety.
that certainly does explain a lot of Cruz' behavior. :smokin:
Now that's three times you've posted that animation to me. I feel like you're trying to tell me something.
I guess we all have to be Stepford posters - lest we receive THE graphic......... sorry, I have a mind of my own and I am not going to cow to anyone's vision of everyone being one and the same.