Obama!
Great speaker. Ambition to be President. Piss off your colleagues. Lacks good judgment. Big talk, but no results.
Describes?
Cruz is following the Obama playbook perfectly.Why not? It worked, especially with low information types.
Do ANY OF YOU realize what The President is doing while people like McConnell and Boehner sit back and bite their fingernails in fear of doing everything possible to stop him??? No - what you do is go after the very few we have in congress trying to stop this madman from taking over our country...... get over yourselves and your hatred for Cruz and the Tea Party and realize what is going on because it is very soon going to be too late to do anything... and I blame every one of you who are so afraid of change you support people who are well past their expiration dates and are as much the problem as the Democrats. These people are not working for US they are in it for themselves and the hell with all of us - the ONLY people trying to help us are people like Cruz, Lee, Paul and about 60 men and women in congress.
Do ANY OF YOU realize what The President is doing while people like McConnell and Boehner sit back and bite their fingernails in fear of doing everything possible to stop him??? No - what you do is go after the very few we have in congress trying to stop this madman from taking over our country...... get over yourselves and your hatred for Cruz and the Tea Party and realize what is going on because it is very soon going to be too late to do anything... and I blame every one of you who are so afraid of change you support people who are well past their expiration dates and are as much the problem as the Democrats. These people are not working for US they are in it for themselves and the hell with all of us - the ONLY people trying to help us are people like Cruz, Lee, Paul and about 60 men and women in congress.
Great speaker. Ambition to be President. Piss off your colleagues. Lacks good judgment. Big talk, but no results.
Describes?
Do ANY OF YOU realize what The President is doing while people like McConnell and Boehner sit back and bite their fingernails in fear of doing everything possible to stop him??? No - what you do is go after the very few we have in congress trying to stop this madman from taking over our country...... get over yourselves and your hatred for Cruz and the Tea Party and realize what is going on because it is very soon going to be too late to do anything... and I blame every one of you who are so afraid of change you support people who are well past their expiration dates and are as much the problem as the Democrats. These people are not working for US they are in it for themselves and the hell with all of us - the ONLY people trying to help us are people like Cruz, Lee, Paul and about 60 men and women in congress.
It's funny how I see you as the misguided fool. Working so hard to destroy the only realistic chance we have in stopping Obama...voting in Republicans
It's funny how I see you as the misguided fool. Working so hard to destroy the only realistic chance we have in stopping Obama...voting in Republicans.
Great speaker. Ambition to be President. Piss off your colleagues. Lacks good judgment. Big talk, but no results.
Describes?
Do ANY OF YOU realize what The President is doing while people like McConnell and Boehner sit back and bite their fingernails in fear of doing everything possible to stop him??? No - what you do is go after the very few we have in congress trying to stop this madman from taking over our country...... get over yourselves and your hatred for Cruz and the Tea Party and realize what is going on because it is very soon going to be too late to do anything... and I blame every one of you who are so afraid of change you support people who are well past their expiration dates and are as much the problem as the Democrats. These people are not working for US they are in it for themselves and the hell with all of us - the ONLY people trying to help us are people like Cruz, Lee, Paul and about 60 men and women in congress.
It's funny how I see you as the misguided fool. Working so hard to destroy the only realistic chance we have in stopping Obama...voting in Republicans. But your post shows you fear working with a majority of Americans to solve our problems and your arrogance in thinking you can demand to get your way through the force of your righteous indignation. The GOPe no longer fears you. The world no longer revolves around 3 pitiful freshmen Senators and 60 Congressmen. You are outnumbered in this war. comeback when you got more guys.
(http://moodyeyeview.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/liberal-circular-firing-squad-430x219.jpg)
And this is precisely why Obama and the democrats will continue to run things after 2014 - may even have a lock on Congress, again - and may even give us President Hillary Clinton in 2016, even though it should be more and more obvious by now that they've thoroughly trashed the country.
Instead of shooting at each other, why not at least try shooting at the democrats from time to time? Heaven knows they've given you enough juicy targets - even someone who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn could at least get a wing-shot in with the targets they've provided.
The blame goes both ways.
How about this:(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qahxm4GSj_U/TymKE6GayzI/AAAAAAAAAVk/JIXMuJBmTVU/s1600/Good+Cop+Bad+Cop.jpg)
The Cruzes of the world, and the tea partiers, make the perfect bad-cop foils to the Boehner, et al., good-cops; conversely, the Boehner good-cops make the perfect foils to the Cruz bad-cops. Or would, if only they - and their supporters - could get their heads out of each other's nether regions long enough to realize that.
So why don't the lot of you try applying a little more of the 11th Commandment - and a little more intelligence and common sense - and make common ground? Otherwise, you're nothing more than the perfect campaign ad for the democrats:Hillary for President 2016
this ad brought to you by the GOP
(and paid for by the rest of the country)
I strongly disagree with your entire post but will defend to death your right to post it!
There is currently a battle going on for the heart and soul of the Republican party and that battle MUST be won by conservatives! If it isn't this country is FINISHED as anything even remotely like a free country!
When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
Disagree away. Just do so with the awareness that your views are antithetical to those of Reagan:
That you were a purist who demanded all or nothing, and never compromised on that principle will be cold comfort when you're suffering in the fetters of socialism being forged for you even now.
I strongly disagree with your entire post but will defend to death your right to post it!
There is currently a battle going on for the heart and soul of the Republican party and that battle MUST be won by conservatives! If it isn't this country is FINISHED as anything even remotely like a free country!
I have labored in the vineyard of the Republican party for more than 40 years now (since 1972), observed the 11th commandment for most of that time, and what has it brought me? NO MORE will I be silent when I see fellow Republicans aligning themselves with the forces of EVIL!
NEVER AGAIN!
Could not agree more Bigun! This is no time for business as usual - and it is certainly NOT the time to go wobbly in the knees! Not only are we engaged in a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican party - we are in a battle for the survival of our American destiny.
How can we entrust the GOP as currently led to wage this do-or-die battle? We can't! They run for cover as soon as the going gets rough. People like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee and a few other courageous people are willing to put their necks on the chopping block to actually stand up and fight this monstrous rape of our life, liberty and pursuits of happiness!
These things will never be found while clinging to the government teat!
I swear - there are people here that are absolutely OBSESSED with hating on Ted Cruz! It seems that they stalk the board, searching for any mention of Cruz so they can pounce on him and pummel his body to a bloody pulp!!!
WHY??? Because he DARES to stand up to the powers that be! He dares to enter the battle that they say "can't be won".
I'm sure there were those that said those things about Normandy and D-Day - thank God we had leaders that refused to listen. Victory is not for the timid. Instead of giving Cruz bloody hell - how about backing him and perhaps giving others who are more timid some cover so they will wage the battle too? We need all the help we can get - and I don't want to hear anymore of this crap that we can't win the battle right now and we have to concede... concede... concede... CONCEDE... (which will supposedly put the Democrats in a tight spot to have to concede some of their sacred cows :chairbang: - that's really rich! :silly:) - until we can gain control and defeat them! That is suicide! Yeah...right - the GOP is going to gain control by insulting and mocking their base and by letting the media and their progressive mole consultants tell them that they must become more like the Democrats to win elections. You can't make this stuff up!
You still do, my brother - the bolded bits. You speak of them in your silence most of the time. That's pretty neat and something I respect.
I am not going all out for Cruz for only one reason. He's kept his word. He's shaking things up and getting people to notice how bad things are. But you know pup officers come in all eager and excited and half of them implode within a few months. I want to see him tested in the green, not in theory. Thus far, I like him. Don't always agree with him, that's a given.
BRAVO!!!!
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Thanks Bigun - my brother in battle - prayers for our victory! We have truth on our side.
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Thank You for the kind words my brother!
Hell! I Don't always agree with him but I DO very much admire the fact that he is out there leading from the front as all REAL leaders do! As you say we will have to wait and see what it comes to but at this moment I could not be more proud of the man!
Thanks Bigun - my brother in battle - prayers for our victory! We have truth on our side.
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Good points 240. What some mock or call a circular firing squad is actually a lot of us woken up and fighting for the soul of the nation.
Good points 240. What dome mock or call a circular firing squad is actually a lot of us woken up and fighting for the soul of the nation.
Good post Rap! We will not be silenced by those who mock us and try their level best to shift the blame on Washington's problems over to us! It wasn't the tea partiers that brought us to this point - poised on the edge of the cliff, staring down at the jagged rocks. We will not be silenced - the rest of the country should be THANKING us for being willing to stand up for them!
Obama will be the best thing to ever happen to America. He is destroying the Washington establishment. In a few years, after Obama is long gone and no one in high school even knows his name or who he was, America will be stronger for it.
Obama is challenging the weak points in America, and after we get rid of this fool, we will be stronger for it.
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I think a lot of people fear change so they are okay with status quo no matter if quo is taking all of us down a rabbit hole... it's why they vote for the same old politicians year in and year out, all they care about is whether the person is an R or a D, they never stop to look at what the politician is doing to screw America..
And by extension the person voting.
I'm just baffled how so many people still work under the assumption that there are two separate parties vying for power in DC.
If we all stop watching the social issues puppet show just long enough to analyze what's been going on in this country for the past several decades, we may actually figure out that no matter which "party" has been in power at what time, government expansionism and the move toward central planning-style Socialism has been constant, and relentless.
When in the Course of human events...
You are right about that and ONE of the current political parties has been selling itself as the one who will FIGHT to stop that but always never quite getting there! It's always wait until ____________ (you fill in the blank) with them and I'm SICK TO DEATH OF IT! They finally and conclusively proved that to me when the very second one of theirs (Ted Cruz) actually tried to DO what he had promised to do in his campaign the long knives came out! NO MORE of that for me! Henceforth I will be working with the TEA party and other like groups to take over the Republican party from the inside out! I am with them all the way in that effort!
240b:
Obama will be the best thing to ever happen to America. He is destroying the Washington establishment. In a few years, after Obama is long gone and no one in high school even knows his name or who he was, America will be stronger for it.
Alicewonders:
How can we entrust the GOP as currently led to wage this do-or-die battle? We can't! They run for cover as soon as the going gets rough. People like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee and a few other courageous people are willing to put their necks on the chopping block to actually stand up and fight this monstrous rape of our life, liberty and pursuits of happiness!
Bigun:
I have labored in the vineyard of the Republican party for more than 40 years now (since 1972),observed the 11th commandment for most of that time, and what has it brought me? NO MORE will I be silent when I see fellow Republicans aligning themselves with the forces of EVIL!
Andy!! Hope it's all going well for you, it sure sounds it! :laugh: :laugh:Thanks. It's good to be back. And equally nice to have a three-day weekend. :beer:
Missed your insights and your posts.
Thread derail over.
I suppose I gave up the practice of not criticizing other Republicans when I came to realize that marching in lockstep was a feature of Progressive Left that we'd do well not to emulate. Reasonable people can differ on many things, whereas an enforced intellectual uniformity is the product of fearful and unreasoning minds, sometimes of the kind that openly welcomes political repression.
That conservatives sometimes disagree and vocalize their differences is not evidence of weakness, but of inner strength and of a belief in free speech, free minds and a free marketplace in which differing viewpoints may be tested and refined.
It is the opposite of the intellectual world which Barack Obama and his Progressives are presently intent upon creating.
Perhaps the Cruz haters and posters telling us to fall in line and shut up can show us what the,old guard GOP gas accomplished lately??? All they do is capitulate while Obama and his minions steal the country from under them.. fun fact, if we didn't have Cruz, Lee, Paul the,take over would be complete and won without,a whimper from the GOP... and telling us Boehner gave us sequester don t fly, he caved on it,at his first opportunity.
I'm no Cruz hater. Just don't trust him.
~LOL~ but you trust Chris Christie?????????? John McCain???? Mitch McConnell???? John Boehner????
Perhaps the Cruz haters and posters telling us to fall in line and shut up can show us what the,old guard GOP gas accomplished lately??? All they do is capitulate while Obama and his minions steal the country from under them.. fun fact, if we didn't have Cruz, Lee, Paul the,take over would be complete and won without,a whimper from the GOP... and telling us Boehner gave us sequester don t fly, he caved on it,at his first opportunity.
That's quite a leap. I don't trust any of them.
US Senators make he absolute worst Presidential candidates, and you would think that the example Obama set by using one elected office to leapfrog himself into a campaign for the next office, would have taught us something.
Ted Cruz has work to do in the Senate, and I like him just fine right where he is. I urge him to stay there and provide leadership in the Senate, and perhaps work to return the Senate to its proper Constitutional role representing the interests of the Several States and functioning as an effective check and balance as intended.
I won't hold my breath till that happens though.....
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I agree. He should stay in the Senate, mature, become a statesman. He's young and has plenty of time to achieve and run for President later.
If he runs in 2016, he won't even win the primary.
We don't get to choose our parents. Hey, his last name could've been O'Toole.
BTW, doesn't Cruz translate to Cross? We're already dealing with one "messianic" tool.
That is quite a bizarre comment. Using the messianic theory on Ted Cruz would only work if the media would cover for him if he attacked progressives using the IRS as a a political arm, aided and abetted terrorists, lied like a rug and destroyed America.
Reagan was called nuts in the beginning. So any time the media uses the politics of personal destruction Alinsky tactics on someone, they are a threat to their democratic progressive hijack of America.
Edited to add: Whose side are you on? I am curious as I have seen many comments on this forum referring Cruz to be Obama like. Where does this thought process come from?
That is quite a bizarre comment. Using the messianic theory on Ted Cruz would only work if the media would cover for him if he attacked progressives using the IRS as a a political arm, aided and abetted terrorists, lied like a rug and destroyed America.
Reagan was called nuts in the beginning. So any time the media uses the politics of personal destruction Alinsky tactics on someone, they are a threat to their democratic progressive hijack of America.
Edited to add: Whose side are you on? I am curious as I have seen many comments on this forum referring Cruz to be Obama like. Where does this thought process come from?
Maybe it's me but I just really don't understand public prayer. Religion, like salaries, should be a private matter.
There was a pic of Cruz sometime around his filibuster* praying with some clergyman.
*Filibuster was acceptable.
What I don't get is the fact that prayer bothers you so much! Why is that?
Prayer doesn't bother me. Publically, beside a moment of silence or national tragedy, it does. I think it's a private thing. I don't like public displays of affection either. I'm a private person. I don't go to the bathroom with an open door, either.
Yikes! You want to rethink that last sentence?
OK! Just wondering. I happen to disagree with you on the public prayer part but that's OK as well.
I think that if a group of people want to pray in public it is their absolute right to do so and have no problem at all with it UNLESS they try to force me to participate. At that point it would become a problem.
Lol. You haven't seen me eat.
Remember when Bubba used to walk around with the Bible in his hand? I'm surprised he didn't go up in flames. On the other hand, I could count the times on one hand the times I saw Reagan expressing his faith, which I still couldn't tell you what it was.
Am I making myself a bit more clear?
Maybe it's me but I just really don't understand public prayer. Religion, like salaries, should be a private matter.
There was a pic of Cruz sometime around his filibuster* praying with some clergyman.
*Filibuster was acceptable.
OK! Just wondering. I happen to disagree with you on the public prayer part but that's OK as well.
I think that if a group of people want to pray in public it is their absolute right to do so and have no problem at all with it UNLESS they try to force me to participate. At that point it would become a problem.
In my case I would be likely to join in with Christian prayers but Muslim prayers NO WAY!
Prayer doesn't bother me. Publically, beside a moment of silence or national tragedy, it does. I think it's a private thing. I don't like public displays of affection either. I'm a private person. I don't go to the bathroom with an open door, either.
Matthew 6
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
The Bible also says:
Matthew 18:20:
"For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
I see nothing wrong with prayer in public gatherings. It used to be more common when it was allowed - before a football game or before many activities - even in Congress. God knows the motivations, whether it is done sincerely or hypocritically. I've seen nothing to indicate that Cruz is a hypocrite.
Sheesh, he really gets under some people's skin.
The Bible also says:
Matthew 18:20:
"For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
I see nothing wrong with prayer in public gatherings. It used to be more common when it was allowed - before a football game or before many activities - even in Congress. God knows the motivations, whether it is done sincerely or hypocritically. I've seen nothing to indicate that Cruz is a hypocrite.
Sheesh, he really gets under some people's skin.
Prayer doesn't bother me. Publically, beside a moment of silence or national tragedy, it does.I think it's a private thing. I don't like public displays of affection either. I'm a private person. I don't go to the bathroom with an open door, either.
So, back when people cried and prayed out loud after 911 that bothered you? Southern women in particular have no problem peeing not only with the door open but talking to someone while peeing. Some like privacy like you and that is great but using the bathroom and national unity in healing in prayer are two different animals lol
During national tragedy even our very progressive media humbles.
:amen: My family prays before every meal, and at family gatherings. Some of them pray before eating at public places, even Golden Corral. These kinds of people are not flaunting their religion, but practicing it. This goes both ways.
This is why the progressive religion of democrats who pray in the Obama church of long legged mack daddy- D E S P I S E Duck Dynasty.
Prayer doesn't bother me. Publically, beside a moment of silence or national tragedy, it does.
Matthew 6
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
I sat on the Board of Directors of a private Christian school for a year. I was stunned by the hypocrisy and Christian "exhibitionism". I am certain not all are like that - but it saddened and angered me. What kept me connected at the time, was the excellent classroom environment for my sons. It certainly wasn't the leadership.
Anyway... back to Senator Cruz and the regular programming.
I just think it's a bit crass to pray for display.
Agreed - it is crass to pray for display, but I have engaged in public prayer many times where it was most definitely NOT for display and it was, in fact, quite appropriate. I think praying for God to help in the direction of our country is very appropriate.
Thank You. To repeat....if Ted Cruz launches a bid for the Presidency, that makes him no better than Barack Obama. I like Cruz just fine in the Senate and he can soon have some significant seniority there if he sticks to the Senate and leaves the Presidential politics to others.
Cruz would make a fine Majority Leader after the November elections.....
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By the way, who says Cruz is planning to run? I've never heard him say that. I think others have said that about him. Using it like a weapon. Implying that his positions are merely calculations. Accusing him of "ambition" as a way of impugning his sincerity.
Given that Cruz beat Dewhurst – the candidate you supported in the Senate race – that's not something you would do, right? Accuse him of insincerity and presidential ambition?
Thank You. To repeat....if Ted Cruz launches a bid for the Presidency, that makes him no better than Barack Obama. I like Cruz just fine in the Senate and he can soon have some significant seniority there if he sticks to the Senate and leaves the Presidential politics to others.
Cruz would make a fine Majority Leader after the November elections.....
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Thank You. To repeat....if Ted Cruz launches a bid for the Presidency, that makes him no better than Barack Obama. I like Cruz just fine in the Senate and he can soon have some significant seniority there if he sticks to the Senate and leaves the Presidential politics to others.
Cruz would make a fine Majority Leader after the November elections.....
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Who would vote for him, other than Mike Lee and Rand Paul?
YOU would have a better chance of being elected Majority Leader than Ted Cruz.
Oh crap :silly: I agree with Sink again.
As sink notes, Senator Cruz has not established the requisite alliances to be elected to a leadership position in the Senate. I simply don't see 2016 White House possibilities for him either.
Which spotlights the need for new blood in the senate for him to make alliances with!
Sink is acerbic - and usually right.
Sink is acerbic - and usuallyrightmoderate.
Sink is acerbic - and usuallyrightcorrect.
Which spotlights the need for new blood in the senate for him to make alliances with!
Friday, February 07
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
Kentucky Senate - McConnell vs. Grimes Courier-Journal/SurveyUSA Grimes 46, McConnell 42 Grimes +4
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/senate/ (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/senate/)
Cruz reminds me of the guy who thinks everyone in the entire world is nuts but him.
He has no alliances because it's his way or the highway. That's not the way politics works, which is why he has never won any of his faceoffs.
If McConnell loses his seat Cruz will suddenly be in alliance. Sorry but just because the media hates him-I think I may like him.
If McConnell loses his seat Cruz will suddenly be in alliance. Sorry but just because the media hates him-I think I may like him.
If you think Republican Senators are going to turn to Ted Cruz as their leader after the stunt he pulled last week, you need to think again.
Who would vote for him, other than Mike Lee and Rand Paul?
YOU would have a better chance of being elected Majority Leader than Ted Cruz.
In any case, I like Cruz right where he is.
.....not necessarily. If national polls would reveal most Republican voters want a fighter in place of milquetoast, he's right there to step-in.
I believe most people would like to see two opposing parties throw dirt at each other. Because when only 1 party is throwing it...and the press doesn't refute it...well, you know.
It time. We're fighting for the heart and soul of the United States of America.
I disagree. If we properly purge the US Senate of all the hangers-on whose only goal is to die in office and lie in state under the Rotunda, you might be amazed at who ends up in Leadership positions. If Cruz stays put he will soon have seniority, and that counts for a lot. Stranger leaders than Cruz have emerged....
We shall see. In any case, I like Cruz right where he is.
If you think Republican Senators are going to turn to Ted Cruz as their leader after the stunt he pulled last week, you need to think again.
:silly: remember when the tea party was not even allowed to have a name and be referenced as the tea party? Remember when the tea party was said to be staged nazis?
What did Cruz do last week? Say that raising the debt ceiling is wrong? It is wrong.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/16/mccain-cruz-had-no-plan-on-debt-ceiling/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/16/mccain-cruz-had-no-plan-on-debt-ceiling/)
Why is it the ones that speak out are labeled the nuts and the ones who vote in their payraises and laugh all the way to the bank and don't give two craps about serving are the statesmen? Why is it that the fat cat establishment like McConnell are fighting for their way of life as career politicians dem lites 2.0?
Cruz wanted another showdown and give Obama an issue to distract from Obamacare and his failure in Syria. That's why he forced a 60 vote threshold for the debt ceiling vote.
That's a stunt. He knew he wouldn't prevail, but he forced tough votes on other Senators. They don't forget that stuff.
At the rate he's going, Cruz is going to need to hire someone to start his car in the morning.......................
So, the Pat Caddell story isn't as far-fetched as some would like to think that it is?
Children throw dirt at each other.
How old are you?
Cruz wanted another showdown and give Obama an issue to distract from Obamacare and his failure in Syria. That's why he forced a 60 vote threshold for the debt ceiling vote.
That's a stunt. He knew he wouldn't prevail, but he forced tough votes on other Senators. They don't forget that stuff.
At the rate he's going, Cruz is going to need to hire someone to start his car in the morning.......................
A bit dramatic?
That Republican Senators want the IRS to go after the Tea Party groups?
Yes. It's far-fetched. Why would a Democrat consultant know what Republican Senators were advocating?
Why has he gone to Iowa twice?
Of course he's ambitious. Watch what people DO, not what they say. Cruz beat Dewhurst, yes. But running in Texas is not the same as running nationally, and Cruz has burned a whole of lot of bridges that will take time to repair if he wants to run for President.
And he does.
That Republican Senators want the IRS to go after the Tea Party groups?
Yes. It's far-fetched. Why would a Democrat consultant know what Republican Senators were advocating?
If you think Republican Senators are going to turn to Ted Cruz as their leader after the stunt he pulled last week, you need to think again.
Who is "we"? "We" don't get to purge the Senate; only the voters in the states of those Senators have any say in whether they go or stay. And lots of voters like their Senators.
Alternatively:
Sink is acerbic - and usually (slightly) right (of center).
Stunt? You have selective memory. When the shutdown ended too early McConnell and Boehner BOTH said they were going to use raising the debt limit as their Mount Olympus and force spending cuts and a few other things on Obama... instead they gave him spending carte' blanc to March 2015 without a whimper.
Cruz wanted them to do what they promised. "Some" of us actually care about things like out of control spending and looming runaway inflation.
Stunt? You have selective memory. When the shutdown ended too early McConnell and Boehner BOTH said they were going to use raising the debt limit as their Mount Olympus and force spending cuts and a few other things on Obama... instead they gave him spending carte' blanc to March 2015 without a whimper.
Cruz wanted them to do what they promised. "Some" of us actually care about things like out of control spending and looming runaway inflation.
The Associated Press-GfK survey affirms expectations by many in Washington — Republicans among them — that the GOP may end up taking the biggest hit in public opinion from the shutdown, as happened when much of the government closed 17 years ago. But the situation is fluid nine days into the shutdown and there's plenty of disdain to go around.
Overall, 62 percent mainly blamed Republicans for the shutdown. About half said Obama or the Democrats in Congress bear much responsibility.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/poll-no-heroes-shutdown-gop-gets-most-blame#sthash.DTFeX1ux.dpuf
The Associated Press-GfK survey affirms expectations by many in Washington — Republicans among them — that the GOP may end up taking the biggest hit in public opinion from the shutdown, as happened when much of the government closed 17 years ago. But the situation is fluid nine days into the shutdown and there's plenty of disdain to go around.
Overall, 62 percent mainly blamed Republicans for the shutdown. About half said Obama or the Democrats in Congress bear much responsibility.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/poll-no-heroes-shutdown-gop-gets-most-blame#sthash.DTFeX1ux.dpuf
Another CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll in mid-December 1995, for example, asked Americans if the shutdown had changed their impressions of both President Clinton and the Republicans in Congress. Not surprisingly, a large majority (62 percent) said their impressions of Republicans had worsened (23 percent were more positive), but nearly half (49 percent) also said their impression of Clinton had grown more negative as result of the government shutdown (35 percent said they had become more positive).
Third and finally, for obvious reasons, many of the more specific questions did not allow for consistent measurements to track attitudes before, during and after the shutdown. One poll from 1995 that asked Americans who they might hold responsible for a government shutdown before it happened was readily available: ABC News and The Washington Post found that as of mid-October 1995, a plurality were already primed to blame the Republicans rather than Clinton for a shutdown (49 percent to 27 percent).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/30/voters-blamed-gop-for-1995-shutdown_n_842769.html
I agree! IMHO Sink (Dave Carney) lives in an alternative universe not in any way connected to reality!
I agree! IMHO Sink (Dave Carney) lives in an alternative universe not in any way connected to reality!
.....not necessarily. If national polls would reveal most Republican voters want a fighter in place of milquetoast, he's right there to step-in.
I believe most people would like to see two opposing parties throw dirt at each other. Because when only 1 party is throwing it...and the press doesn't refute it...well, you know.
It time. We're fighting for the heart and soul of the United States of America.
So, the Pat Caddell story isn't as far-fetched as some would like to think that it is?
I agree! IMHO Sink (Dave Carney) lives in an alternative universe not in any way connected to reality!
Even when he's dead wrong, which is the case when we disagree.
:whistle:
Honestly, that advanced the discussion... how?
Caddell has not consulted for Democrats since the Carter administration.
Dang Bigun. I have been burned out for a long time so, accordingly, my posts have been non-substantive for some time. I can understand ignoring me. Sink? No.
Dang Bigun. I have been burned out for a long time so, accordingly, my posts have been non-substantive for some time. I can understand ignoring me. Sink? No.
Actually, Caddell and Schoen had a small polling/consulting practice going up until the point that the two of them started speaking out against and calling attention to the abuses of the current administration in its first term. Soon there after ALL of their business dried up and they found themselves "blacklisted" (sound familiar??), and the recipients of not so thinly veiled threats. (I don't have a link, this is my recollection from hearing them both telling Hannity about it all over the course of several appearances on his radio show somewhere around 2010-11.)
Caddell and Schoen are part of a dying breed of patriotic Americans that chose to support the Democrat Party as it existed when they came of age in politics. What some may refer to as "Your Grandfather's Democrat Party" (at least much more so than it does at the present). The only other person in this category that comes to mind is a fellow named Peter Johnson, Jr., an attorney that appeared often on the FNC morning show. I am sure that more than 3 of these people exist, but they are the only ones that I come to mind. What also comes to mind as I think of the three of them, is that they surely love their country much more than their party (especially as it has become corrupted over time, at an ever increasing rate, I may add). In my opinion they are very patriotic Americans that are pretty much as disgusted and angry about what "both" parties have been doing to this country for quite some time.
A bit dramatic?
I agree! IMHO Sink (Dave Carney) lives in an alternative universe not in any way connected to reality!
Let me see if I can help you understand. Sink HATES Ted Cruz and always has! I think he is brightest ray of sunshine we've seen in the political realm in a LONG time! He is actually doing what he promised to do while campaigning.
Sink thinks that surrender is victory. I think that you cannot possibly win a fight that you never have.
And mostly because he lies! Continually persists with the unmitigated BS that Ted Cruz shut down the government no matter how many times he's been corrected on the point.
We are never going to agree!
Let me see if I can help you understand. Sink HATES Ted Cruz and always has! I think he is brightest ray of sunshine we've seen in the political realm in a LONG time! He is actually doing what he promised to do while campaigning.
Sink thinks that surrender is victory. I think that you cannot possibly win a fight that you never have.
And mostly because he lies! Continually persists with the unmitigated BS that Ted Cruz shut down the government no matter how many times he's been corrected on the point.
We are never going to agree!
I have a big problem when the label my opposition to Barack Obama's politics and policies as "hatred".
I have the same problem when it's done by our side.
I have a big problem when the label my opposition to Barack Obama's politics and policies as "hatred".
I have the same problem when it's done by our side.
Once again.............
OBAMA shut down the government...............
OBAMA shut down the government..........
OBAMA shut down the government...............
OBAMA shut down the government..........
OBAMA shut down the government...............
OBAMA shut down the government..........
OBAMA shut down the government...............
OBAMA shut down the government..........
trying to save the country and follow the constitution is not "opportunism"
Fact is he has been "fixated" on Cruz from the day he got in the race for Senate. Sink wanted Dewhurst and had nothing but very nasty things to say about Cruz throughout the campaign and even the general election... he has not let up since.... there really is no other term to apply to what he thinks of Cruz... and BTW before Cruz we went thought two years of the same fixation and nasty comments from him re Sarah Palin.
Fact is he has been "fixated" on Cruz from the day he got in the race for Senate. Sink wanted Dewhurst and had nothing but very nasty things to say about Cruz throughout the campaign and even the general election... he has not let up since.... there really is no other term to apply to what he thinks of Cruz... and BTW before Cruz we went thought two years of the same fixation and nasty comments from him re Sarah Palin.
You and a phone booth full of other people believe that. The rest of the country blamed the GOP.
You can like that or not like it, but there it is.
You and a phone booth full of other people believe that. The rest of the country blamed the GOP.
You can like that or not like it, but there it is.
I don't think the rest of the country gives a flip and polls clearly showed both parties received equal blame..... once again you are projecting your own issues off on Cruz.
That is not true. The Democrats got SOME blame, but most of it went to the Republicans.
More importantly, the shutdown wasted two weeks when the attention could have been focused on the botched rollout of the Obamacare.
Sink is old guard republican establishment to the end. The only human beings I can think of that would be this way at this time would be Boehner himself.
Does Sink have a tan? No wait, Sink would never cry at the drop of the hat lol so he has to be a republican party player or live in republican campaign headquarters. lol
I see..... but it was perfectly okay for Boehner and Cantor to jump right in to push amnesty and take all the attention off Obamacare? I guess since that was Boehner instead of Cruz then it is okay. Where is Boehner on Obamacare? he isn't doing squat to draw attention the disaster that is Obamacare...
And everyone took the blame for the shutdown... however.... I think when what you are doing is the right thing then you should be willing to take the incoming flak, Cruz was doing the right thing and I will walk through broken glass to support someone who is trying his level best to save this country.
That is not true. The Democrats got SOME blame, but most of it went to the Republicans.
More importantly, the shutdown wasted two weeks when the attention could have been focused on the botched rollout of the Obamacare.
Dave Carney!
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/29/125658/meet-dave-carney-rick-perrys-karl.html
That is not true. The Democrats got SOME blame, but most of it went to the Republicans.
More importantly, the shutdown wasted two weeks when the attention could have been focused on the botched rollout of the Obamacare.
Neutered dog disease sink. They just don't get it.Us v. them, is it?
And they can't tell us we're wrong anymore than we can tell them they're wrong.
I agree! But he persists! You don't see me continually pushing Democrat talking points!
Us v. them, is it?
Pathetic turn to the thread. Frankly, I'm sick of it.
The Cruz hate is amazing. You can just feel lol that the haters all cannot stand that they can't just call him stupid.
It could be argued that the Cruz love is borderline groupie. So, you see... everyone has a viewpoint.
Dude puts his pants on one leg at a time.
So do I, and always in the same sequence:
1... 2... and 3
Once again.............
OBAMA shut down the government...............
OBAMA shut down the government..........
OBAMA shut down the government...............
OBAMA shut down the government..........
OBAMA shut down the government...............
OBAMA shut down the government..........
OBAMA shut down the government...............
OBAMA shut down the government..........
It does not matter Rap what the reality is. It has everything to do with who is controlling the narrative. The prevailing narrative in the MSM is Cruz/Republicans shut down the government. There is no doubt of that in my mind. There is also no doubt that the timing was very favorable for Obama and his ACA. Here is a parallel: Was the Clinton/Lewinsky affair:
A. All about sex, or
B: The Chief Executive of the United States lied under oath denying a U.S. citizen due process under the law.
You and I answer "B". 90%+ of all others would answer "A".
It does not matter Rap what the reality is. It has everything to do with who is controlling the narrative. The prevailing narrative in the MSM is Cruz/Republicans shut down the government. There is no doubt of that in my mind. There is also no doubt that the timing was very favorable for Obama and his ACA. Here is a parallel: Was the Clinton/Lewinsky affair:
A. All about sex, or
B: The Chief Executive of the United States lied under oath denying a U.S. citizen due process under the law.
You and I answer "B". 90%+ of all others would answer "A".
It does not matter Rap what the reality is. It has everything to do with who is controlling the narrative. The prevailing narrative in the MSM is Cruz/Republicans shut down the government. There is no doubt of that in my mind. There is also no doubt that the timing was very favorable for Obama and his ACA. Here is a parallel: Was the Clinton/Lewinsky affair:
A. All about sex, or
B: The Chief Executive of the United States lied under oath denying a U.S. citizen due process under the law.
You and I answer "B". 90%+ of all others would answer "A".
You know, it doesn't even matter if Cruz is in the picture or not - if Republicans aren't getting blamed for a government shutdown - they're getting blamed for a war on women or hating immigrants or hating fast food workers making minimum wage or hating gay people just wanting to get married or hating black people...I could go on and on.
The left always has to have a victim and a villain. This is a winning strategy for them and with the help of the media it's pretty much a fait accompli. In this instance, it has been wildly successful in (1) cutting Ted Cruz down at the knees (a figure they seem to be terrified of) and (2) scaring the cowardly Republicans into ever letting the government shut down again.
It could be argued that the Cruz love is borderline groupie. So, you see... everyone has a viewpoint.
What party line?
I will tell you that I would check my tactics.
Senator Cruz, with considerable respect due, had ill-conceived tactics and ill-conceived timing. And in the failed attempt, it smacked as self-serving.
He ended up with answer "A".
It does not matter Rap what the reality is. It has everything to do with who is controlling the narrative. The prevailing narrative in the MSM is Cruz/Republicans shut down the government. There is no doubt of that in my mind. There is also no doubt that the timing was very favorable for Obama and his ACA. Here is a parallel: Was the Clinton/Lewinsky affair:
A. All about sex, or
B: The Chief Executive of the United States lied under oath denying a U.S. citizen due process under the law.
You and I answer "B". 90%+ of all others would answer "A".
And that is because too many are afraid to speak out and say it is B and A is insignificant in the scheme of things.
What party line?
I will tell you that I would check my tactics.
Senator Cruz, with considerable respect due, had ill-conceived tactics and ill-conceived timing. And in the failed attempt, it smacked as self-serving.
He ended up with answer "A".
You know, it doesn't even matter if Cruz is in the picture or not - if Republicans aren't getting blamed for a government shutdown - they're getting blamed for a war on women or hating immigrants or hating fast food workers making minimum wage or hating gay people just wanting to get married or hating black people...I could go on and on.
The left always has to have a victim and a villain. This is a winning strategy for them and with the help of the media it's pretty much a fait accompli. In this instance, it has been wildly successful in (1) cutting Ted Cruz down at the knees (a figure they seem to be terrified of) and (2) scaring the cowardly Republicans into ever letting the government shut down again.
I honestly think the reason a lot of us like Ted Cruz - as opposed to being groupies - is we have been starving for someone in the Republican Party who is willing to charge into the fight instead of call retreat claiming over and over and over again "we have to hold our powder for the next election, the next increase in the debt ceiling, the next presidential election the next, the next, the next and they always count on the voters forgetting they said they would fight - just let us wait until next year or next month or............ All the GOP does is call retreat. I am sick of it. Either fight or get the heck out of the way and let someone who cares enough to fight and not worry about the next election of the next chunk of money the Chamber is going to stuff in their pockets take the helm.
I could not agree with you more Alice. That is why Rand Paul fired the Lewinsky shot across Hillary's bow. He served notice that he is prepared to do battle on the War on Women theme. The Republicans need to get in front of the narrative. For some mystifying reason, a Boy Scout troop could do a better job. And why not - fundamentals and history are on their side for heaven's sake. They need to have regular, formal ways of messaging the media and the American people. Weekly info meetings on a select topic with select representatives. The messaging needs to be on-point, succinct and incessant. Absolutely incessant. And the first thing I'd attack and shred is the identity politics of the left.
This party line! "Ted Cruz shut down the Government"!
The rest I respectfully but strongly disagree with entirely!
I don't care if his name is Cruz or Snooze....at least somebody stood up and laid out the opposing POV in an 'in-your-face' manner.
We've been apparently listening to the GOP consultant brigades since Ronald Reagan...."Don't stoop down to their level, don't attack them personally, leave Hillary alone...etc.!"
BULLSHI*!
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results......in the meantime, the American culture has significantly deteriorated since Reagan.
I want an IN YOUR FACE Republican leader who continues to make the news every night with 'outrageous' alternative suggestions and rebuttals toward an enemy that actually would like to see us dead.
WAKE THE F**K UP!
And if that makes me a child Sink.....then I'll wear the badge proudly.
I honestly think the reason a lot of us like Ted Cruz - as opposed to being groupies - is we have been starving for someone in the Republican Party who is willing to charge into the fight instead of call retreat claiming over and over and over again "we have to hold our powder for the next election, the next increase in the debt ceiling, the next presidential election the next, the next, the next and they always count on the voters forgetting they said they would fight - just let us wait until next year or next month or............ All the GOP does is call retreat. I am sick of it. Either fight or get the heck out of the way and let someone who cares enough to fight and not worry about the next election of the next chunk of money the Chamber is going to stuff in their pockets take the helm.
I don't care if his name is Cruz or Snooze....at least somebody stood up and laid out the opposing POV in an 'in-your-face' manner.
We've been apparently listening to the GOP consultant brigades since Ronald Reagan...."Don't stoop down to their level, don't attack them personally, leave Hillary alone...etc.!"
BULLSHI*!
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results......in the meantime, the American culture has significantly deteriorated since Reagan.
I want an IN YOUR FACE Republican leader who continues to make the news every night with 'outrageous' alternative suggestions and rebuttals toward an enemy that actually would like to see us dead.
WAKE THE F**K UP!
And if that makes me a child Sink.....then I'll wear the badge proudly.
I don't care if his name is Cruz or Snooze....at least somebody stood up and laid out the opposing POV in an 'in-your-face' manner.
We've been apparently listening to the GOP consultant brigades since Ronald Reagan...."Don't stoop down to their level, don't attack them personally, leave Hillary alone...etc.!"
BULLSHI*!
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results......in the meantime, the American culture has significantly deteriorated since Reagan.
I want an IN YOUR FACE Republican leader who continues to make the news every night with 'outrageous' alternative suggestions and rebuttals toward an enemy that actually would like to see us dead.
WAKE THE F**K UP!
And if that makes me a child Sink.....then I'll wear the badge proudly.
I don't care if his name is Cruz or Snooze....at least somebody stood up and laid out the opposing POV in an 'in-your-face' manner.
We've been apparently listening to the GOP consultant brigades since Ronald Reagan...."Don't stoop down to their level, don't attack them personally, leave Hillary alone...etc.!"
BULLSHI*!
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results......in the meantime, the American culture has significantly deteriorated since Reagan.
I want an IN YOUR FACE Republican leader who continues to make the news every night with 'outrageous' alternative suggestions and rebuttals toward an enemy that actually would like to see us dead.
WAKE THE F**K UP!
And if that makes me a child Sink.....then I'll wear the badge proudly.
I could not agree with you more Alice. That is why Rand Paul fired the Lewinsky shot across Hillary's bow. He served notice that he is prepared to do battle on the War on Women theme. The Republicans need to get in front of the narrative. For some mystifying reason, a Boy Scout troop could do a better job. And why not - fundamentals and history are on their side for heaven's sake. They need to have regular, formal ways of messaging the media and the American people. Weekly info meetings on a select topic with select representatives. The messaging needs to be on-point, succinct and incessant. Absolutely incessant. And the first thing I'd attack and shred is the identity politics of the left.
Cruz, Paul, Reagan. Let's just call a spade a spade, nothing of worth in this nation was resolved by ballots only by bullets. Independence, the Second War of Independence, the Civil War, Civil Rights. Everything else is parlor chat.
I don't care if his name is Cruz or Snooze....at least somebody stood up and laid out the opposing POV in an 'in-your-face' manner.
We've been apparently listening to the GOP consultant brigades since Ronald Reagan...."Don't stoop down to their level, don't attack them personally, leave Hillary alone...etc.!"
BULLSHI*!
They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results......in the meantime, the American culture has significantly deteriorated since Reagan.
I want an IN YOUR FACE Republican leader who continues to make the news every night with 'outrageous' alternative suggestions and rebuttals toward an enemy that actually would like to see us dead.
WAKE THE F**K UP!
And if that makes me a child Sink.....then I'll wear the badge proudly.
It's the only thing that seems to get everybody's attention.
And it also places the NSA's paranoia into better perspective.
Reagan was an amiable human being who made an effort to work with everybody. And he did work with everybody.
(http://Reagan was an amiable human being who made an effort to work with everybody. And he did work with everybody.)
Reagan was a president. Cruz is only a Senator. Reagan got cooperation; Obama is dictatorial. The democrats don't want to cooperate, and they are the instigators. They hammer away, and guess who is allowing themselves to be hammered? The days of mediation between parties is over, unless we get someone in who is intelligent with common sense, and the guts to stand by his beliefs. That is what Reagan did, and like it or not, the democrats were in no position to defy him any more than they already had. They found that the MSM and themselves did not intimidate Reagan, and Reagan went on to be one of our best presidents.
I disagree. If we properly purge the US Senate of all the hangers-on whose only goal is to die in office and lie in state under the Rotunda, you might be amazed at who ends up in Leadership positions. If Cruz stays put he will soon have seniority, and that counts for a lot. Stranger leaders than Cruz have emerged....
We shall see. In any case, I like Cruz right where he is.
I honestly think the reason a lot of us like Ted Cruz - as opposed to being groupies - is we have been starving for someone in the Republican Party who is willing to charge into the fight instead of call retreat claiming over and over and over again "we have to hold our powder for the next election, the next increase in the debt ceiling, the next presidential election the next, the next, the next and they always count on the voters forgetting they said they would fight - just let us wait until next year or next month or............ All the GOP does is call retreat. I am sick of it. Either fight or get the heck out of the way and let someone who cares enough to fight and not worry about the next election of the next chunk of money the Chamber is going to stuff in their pockets take the helm.
From the time Nixon was elected Senator, it was 18 years until he was elected President. (1950-1968)
From the time Reagan was elected Governor it was 13 years until he was elected President. (1967-1980)
Cruz comes up way short, when looked at in an historic light. Plenty of others have put in their training time. Governors Perry, Walker, Bush, Huckabee, Martinez, Kasich, Brewer, Sandoval, Christie, would be a list of examples.
Back during my corporate career, we discovered an interesting phenomena - why management went outside for supervisory positions, instead of promote from within.
It was because they knew all the weakness for current employees, but outsiders had no known weaknesses to them.
Cruz reminds me of that situation. In his short time he's made a few speeches, a couple of filibusters. He has no record of accomplishments whatsoever, yet he's a legend in no time.
Reagan was an amiable human being who made an effort to work with everybody. And he did work with everybody.
(http://Reagan was an amiable human being who made an effort to work with everybody. And he did work with everybody.)
Reagan was a president. Cruz is only a Senator. Reagan got cooperation; Obama is dictatorial. The democrats don't want to cooperate, and they are the instigators. They hammer away, and guess who is allowing themselves to be hammered? The days of mediation between parties is over, unless we get someone in who is intelligent with common sense, and the guts to stand by his beliefs. That is what Reagan did, and like it or not, the democrats were in no position to defy him any more than they already had. They found that the MSM and themselves did not intimidate Reagan, and Reagan went on to be one of our best presidents.
Obviously this is pure speculation on my part..... but lately, upon seeing his name, "11th commandment," and statements on "compromise" constantly being trotted out in support of the GOPe style tactics and politicians, I wonder if he would say in response, something along the lines of: "Well, those were different times.... we are fighting a different kind of evil now, the kind of compromise that I was able to broker back then really isn't possible with this crew..... Oh, and as far as my 11th Commandment, you need to understand, when I said that, being a "Republican" actually meant something....."
We both live in Oregon, right? What are the odds of removing Wyden or Merkely with even a moderate GOP
such as Gordon Smith, let alone somebody like Ted Cruz? You're hoping for some massive shift that defies reality. I'm sure it feels nice ideolgically to hold firm on your view, but reality makes it a completely unreasonable expectation.
From the time Nixon was elected Senator, it was 18 years until he was elected President. (1950-1968)
From the time Reagan was elected Governor it was 13 years until he was elected President. (1967-1980)
Cruz comes up way short, when looked at in an historic light. Plenty of others have put in their training time. Governors Perry, Walker, Bush, Huckabee, Martinez, Kasich, Brewer, Sandoval, Christie, would be a list of examples.
Back during my corporate career, we discovered an interesting phenomena - why management went outside for supervisory positions, instead of promote from within.
It was because they knew all the weakness for current employees, but outsiders had no known weaknesses to them.
Cruz reminds me of that situation. In his short time he's made a few speeches, a couple of filibusters. He has no record of accomplishments whatsoever, yet he's a legend in no time.
There are 14 states with two Republican Senators.
There are 17 states with one Republican Senator.
Subtotal 31 states with one+ Republican Senators, or 62%.
There are 19 states which have no Republican Senators, or 38%. Of those 16 have a democrat Governor as well (exceptions New Mexico, Michigan, New Jersey). And of the 19 states, 17 voted for Obama in 2014. Of those 19 states, 15 have democrat domination of state legislatures.
I therefore conclude that 30-40% of the states are out of reach for Republicans at this time.
Obviously this is pure speculation on my part..... but lately, upon seeing his name, "11th commandment," and statements on "compromise" constantly being trotted out in support of the GOPe style tactics and politicians, I wonder if he would say in response, something along the lines of: "Well, those were different times.... we are fighting a different kind of evil now, the kind of compromise that I was able to broker back then really isn't possible with this crew..... Oh, and as far as my 11th Commandment, you need to understand, when I said that, being a "Republican" actually meant something....."