Posted on 06/14/2013 5:52:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Freshman Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has become an increasingly controversial figure in American politics as evidenced by comments MSNBC’s Chris Matthews made this week comparing Cruz to Nazi sympathizer Father Coughlin. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly laid into Matthews last night for equating his “black Irish” looks with Cruz’s and today Megyn Kelly picked up the thread by asking what it is about the senator that makes liberals so angry.
Conservative radio host Mike Gallagher said people are only attacking Cruz because he’s “effective.” He said people are “impressed” with the “tea party darling” who “rose out of nowhere” and used this latest round of attacks on Cruz to demonstrate that “the attacks from the left, against conservatives, are way more visit vitriolic and vicious than anything we say about them.”
Liberal commentator Alan Colmes pointed out that it’s not just those on the left who are going after Cruz, pointing to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who famously called Cruz and some of his Senate cohorts “wacko birds.”
Kelly posited that the criticism may actually be “strengthening Cruz’s brand.” She compared the reaction Cruz has been getting to Sarah Palin, who “touched a nerve” and then “many in the press went after her and it sort of backfired because people on the right loved her more.”
“Liberals have never quite figured out that the process of demonizing a guy like Ted Cruz only makes him stronger,” Gallager agreed....
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now if only it would work on others
Cruz should wear an attack by McCain as a badge of honor. Criticism by the corrupt establishment in Washington means he is right on target.
When a conservative is villified like Ted Cruz then we know he’s effective and getting under the Democrats skin, and it pisses them too that he’s a helluva lot smarter than all of them combined.
But then I have never dismissed the idea that the Commies worked on McCain in the Hanoi Hilton. If they didn't, they were completely incompetent...and they weren't incompetent. They were quite thorough.
When someone throws a rock into a crowded pigpen...the pig who squeals the loudest is the one who was hit by the rock.
And then our all time favorite...
If you're catching max flak...you're over the target.
Ted Cruz is one gem of a senator unafraid to lay it out straight and to the core. Happy to have voted for him.
If Ted Cruz is a “black Irish”, then Chrissy Matthews is the stereotypical “Drunk Irish” even when he is sober (if that ever occurrs).
In fact, so many of MSNBC and CNN’s poseur journalists are wack-jobs that they would form the biggest “Conga-line of wackos and fruitcases” in history (Bashir, Martin, Lawrence, Matthews, Schulz, Maddow, Morgan and the long-departed Olbermann).
I didn’t know that mental illness was a prerequisite condition of hiring at these networks, but I should have guessed it was so.
And I thought that my late mother-in-law was crazy! Rank amateur compared to those above.
Black Irish?
Dark-haired, dark eyed Irish descended from Spaniards who came there in the aftermath of the wreck of the Armada.
Dark-haired, dark eyed Irish descended from Spaniards who came there in the aftermath of the wreck of the Armada.
On the best day of his life, McCain was an ass*ole and it has only gotten worse.
You may be on to something...
are way more visit vitriolic and vicious than anything we say about them.”
...is this phrase supposed to have some meaning???
...are way more visit vitriolic and vicious...
...is this phrase supposed to have some grammatical meaning???
...is this phrase supposed to have some grammatical meaning???
...maybe if I asked the question several more times, it would reveal itself to me...oh, those double post blues...
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