Posted on 01/21/2016 8:31:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Earlier today it was widely reported that North Carolina Senator Richard Burr was not happy with Ted Cruz. That doesn't make him a special snowflake. Most of the practitioners of crony capitalism and Failure Theater in the Senate are not happy with Ted Cruz. But Burr was not content to merely take a number and get in line. Burr had to make a point of how pissed he was at the idea of Ted Cruz winning the nomination. (Burr's Heritage Action score is 45%, which is the same as arch-conservatives John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell.)
Cruz has become such a pariah that one of his colleagues, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, told supporters at a campaign fundraiser for his own re-election that he would vote for liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders for president before Cruz, according to one person who attended the event. Burr did not appear to be joking, said the person, who demanded anonymity to discuss the private gathering.
That a sitting senator who professes to be a conservative of some stripe... and who was elected on the backs of conservatives who worked their asses off for him... would tell people that he would vote for an avowed socialist over his party's nominee is rather stunning when you first hear it. But then, on reflection, you realize this is very much the way the GOP establishment reacts to a challenger whom they can't best in a primary. They sabotage him. The help the Democrat win because the Democrat won't upset their apple cart.
After his words got national attention, Burr, as establishment types do, donned his brown trousers and retreated:
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr on Thursday strongly denied a news report that said he had told people he would vote for Democrat Bernie Sanders over Republican Ted Cruz.
Burr's aides asked The Associated Press for a retraction. An AP spokesman said the news agency was sticking by its story. "I will support whoever the GOP nominee is," Burr tweeted. "@AP is trying to create discord where there isn't discord by telling lies."
Burr was responding to an AP story by reporter Erica Werner about Cruz's unpopularity with fellow Republican senators.
Even the most charitable observer would have to credit the AP story (regardless of the reporter's bias) and call Burr a liar. First, the AP could have used the statement anonymously. There was no percentage in picking some random RINO senator, pinning the quote on him, and muddying the story with an argument over the source. That would be stupid. AP's political reporting may be duplicitous and consist of Democrat talking points, but it isn't stupid. Second, Burr is firmly within that little mean-girls clique that has been bad-mouthing Cruz. So the fact that he was shooting his mouth off to a group of supporters, whom he assumed believed as all right-thinking people believe, is hardly remarkable. Third, he has pulled this kind of juvenile stunt before. Back during the fifth GOP debate in Las Vegas, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz got into a spat over NSA metadata collection. Rubio accused Cruz -- very wrongly as it turned out -- of divulging "secret" information. Everything Cruz said was from Senate speeches or newspaper articles. Burr immediately announced that he was going to launch an investigation into Cruz's remarks.
Burr got caught puffing up his neck sack to impress his donors. When the word got out, he did what GOP establishment types do, he denied his own words. And now he's trying to tell all of us rubes that a reporter lied about what he said. Real class, that guy.
Is he related to Aaron?
Cruz is hated by his peers in the senate.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Burr got it right.
Socialism is a spoils system where the political elite living high off the hog and the great unwashed languish in economic mediocrity.
Burr thinks he has a better chance of feathering his nest with Sanders.
Burr needs to be Cantorized
I think this has motivated me to shell out some $$$$ for Cruz and possibly Burr’s Primary opponent Greg Brannon as well!!
You do realize that Burr is a McConnel stooge?
More likely Raymond.
He has at least 2 primary challengers, although I think he would stand a greater chance of being defeated if there was just one. My vote will go to Brannon in the primary.
Of course he is hated by his peers! HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT STOOD UP for what is right!!!!! GOD BLESS THAT MAN!!!
Doesn’t matter to him. He is part of the destroy Cruz at any cost club.
Of course he is hated by his peers! HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT STOOD UP for what is right!!!!! GOD BLESS THAT MAN!!!
Amen.
Burrrp!
this will only help Cruz. A true outsider who doesn’t make deals to stab his voters in the back
And Ted wears that as a badge of honor - and I salute him for it!
The Washington cartel is scared sh*tless of Cruz and I can only hope if Trump is the last man standing that HE will bring Cruz onboard as a valuable advisor since he knows the congressional minefields well and who all the snakes are. Most importantly, Ted can advise him on SCOTUS candidates that are TRULY CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVES!!!
I did not know Greg Brannon was running!!!!!!!!
If you are in North Carolina, VOTE FOR DR. BRANNON...He probably knows the Constitution better than anyone....
Seems like the whole bunch of them are off their meds - the Senate; Talk Radio (half of them); WaPo; Hollywood (no surprise there). What is with GET TRUMP and GET CRUZ??? I have never seen such frothing at the mouth. Amazing to see people (with a Talking Points Memo??) ALL come out at once?? Something in the water, it might be??
At least he was present in the Senate for the vote today, unlike Rubio and Cruz.
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