Tom Coburn to MSNBC: ‘I’m No Longer a Conservative’ According to Ted Cruz

Mediaite ^ | 9/26/13 | Evan McMurry

[DoughtyOne]

I count eight nobodies..., only I don’t consider them to be nobodies Mr. Cobern.

[EBH]

I am so glad the people who started the founding of our nation never thought like that!!!

Party on Tea Party...Party On!

[Rummyfan]

“Do people not think if I could change ObamaCare, I’d do it in a minute?

If you can't do anything about it Senator Coburn, then GTF out of the way and let someone else fight it. Frankly, what good are you?

[Noamie]

Cruz stands up against a Law that 65-80% of Americans don’t want and CRUZ is somehow out of touch? Wow.

Coburn is only as conservative as he says he is. He has not “actively” done anything that I have any memory of in his 9 years. Not one thing comes to mind.

And, no, talking out of both sides of your mouth and going on MSNBC and bashing a Party hero doesn’t make you a conservative either.

Did Coburn defend Palin? Nope.

Just because you push a button at the correct time doesn’t make you all that conservative of a senator, man.

[rhinohunter]

Well Tom, the fact that you went into the pit of vipers at pmsnbc to sling mud at a true American hero indicates that you are indeed no Conservative.

[Gay State Conservative]

“I’m finishing up nine years in the Senate,” Coburn said.

So what! OJ's finishing up nine years as a "wide receiver" on the Nevada License Plate Academy's football team.

[Lakeshark]

He's a decent conservative, but good grief, why doesn't he understand the need to bring this before the American public and debate it? Don't they understand the opportunity to point out how horrid this law is and how ugly it is to just let it sink its teeth into the American system?

Here there was a chance to go over the head of the MSM and proclaim the horrors of this law, and they just whimpered into the corner.......

[Nextrush]

In spite of what those scorecards showed, in the end when it really mattered Coburn is in cut and run mode.

Unfortunately those groups are beltway oriented fundraising groups who have to pretend that your contributions are making conservatism happen in Washington. Otherwise you don’t send them more of your dough.

I guess the mask covering the political machine of the GOPe is coming off big time.

[Servant of the Cross]

MSNBC?! Tom Coburn, who thinks he is a "conservative" in his definition but not in Senator Cruz', goes on MSNBC to whine and make his case?!

FAIL! Big Time! Viva Ted Cruz!

Here's a description of Tom Coburn and his gOLDp senate colleagues from Rush's interview with Senator Cruz yesterday afternoon .....

I will tell you the single biggest surprise in arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. I mean, we don't even talk about how to win a fight. There's no discussion. We talk about, "Hey, let's get a show vote so we can go tell our constituents we're doing something." But I promise you, Rush, if you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you'd be in therapy for a month ... but they've been here a long time, and they're beaten down, and they don't believe we can win. They don't believe it can happen, and the answer they say on every issue is, "No, we can't do it. We can't do it."

This reminds me of the House of Representatives in the 90's before Newt Gingrich arrived. And he showed them they could to which V.P. Dick Cheney attests ...

When Newt showed up he said, we can become the majority, we can take back the House of Representatives. We hadn't had the House since the 1940s. And initially, none of us believed it. But he was persistent, he was tenacious. He kept it up, kept it up, and kept it up. Finally by '94 he's the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives with a Republican majority.

[chae]

And Ted is correct.
You are a classic lib. Going on a lib talk show and whining about the mean conservative is a Demonrat move.

[Batman11]

“I’m finishing up nine years in the Senate,”

Stop right there. Do you think this is a lifetime appointment? You work for your constituents. Are you uncomfortable that they are calling you out for not doing your job? What good is your so called “conservative record” if you don’t stand up when it matters most? Senator Cruz is making almost all of you look like DC insider politicians who are more concerned with maintaining their political power than doing their damn job for the people. ..because that’s what you are! Start representing the will of the people, or get the hell out!

[manc]

good quote.
These establishment types have been there for some long that they want the media and the left to like them and thus they just cower to the left.

Sarah tried to win and the establishment came out against her, so who needs enemies on the left wen we have MCcain, Graham, Coburn

[Uncle Miltie]

Coburn, if you’re going to help Harry Reid fund 0bamaCare by voting for Cloture, you’re right.

You are not a conservative.

You are a Kapo for the Regime, loading Americans onto the 0bamaCare Cattle Car.

You friggin’ totalitarian statist.

[A message]

left picture Coburn 9 years ago.

right picture Coburn today

[Servant of the Cross]

“Do people not think if I could change ObamaCare, I’d do it in a minute?

Senator Coburn, all it takes is 41 votes to deny cloture. In fact, if the GOP Senators had done the right thing and voted against cloture in 2009, you wouldn't be in the position you are today, whining on MSNBC about what a bully Ted Cruz is for being a profile in courage. You only mouth words for show Senator Coburn, Senator Cruz is acting on his words and convictions.

[VRWCarea51]

Who wants to wager that Ole Tom does what the majority of the RINOS do this week. They will vote for cloture then knowing the Majority only needs 51 votes to strip out the Defunding messure and send it back to the House, they will vote against the bill. Then they parade in mass to the nearest Prestitute to declare their stanch opposition to ObamaCare.

The stupid $%@#$# don’t realize we know they handed Harry Reid the Sword to kill the defunding part with their support of cloture.

Don’t let the bastards off the hook. Fill their Email boxes, voice mail and PLASTER their facebook pages. Let em know we are on to their BS and are done with it.

[cripplecreek]

Plenty of “moderates” in the days of our revolution but the whole political spectrum had a firm Judeo Christian basis. Ben Franklin was the flaming moonbat of his day but solidly Christian.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Phone lines in DC are melting; keep up the calls.

There should be a march on Washington, ya think?

[mosesdapoet]

Republicans Have No Clue Who Their Enemy Really Is
Thursday, September 26, 2013 7:49:34 AM · 35 of 37
mosesdapoet to LD Jackson; All
LDJ The caption on your opus whould read:
Socialist Media Driving GOPES (gop elite snobs) Garbage Truck
Because that’s who Cruz critics are responding to. For as smart as some of these people are, with the exception of “Andy Dean” who’s as dumb as a box of rocks. All of them are responding to assertions being made by the socialist agenda driven visual media. As they mete out their visual junk laced with socialist/commie dope to the LIV.

If your a “Republican” and criticize “conservatives” or the “tea party” and I put those in quotes and go to these sources to spout off you get promoted to a GOP leadership role. But who are those sources and how many people watch them and what is their impact ?

Don’t over react, or go to those links when their comments are posted here in FR. Be dissmissive of their remarks and the sources the’re using. Take a guy like Peter King. During elections “can this guy carry his home precinct” ? The media he’s using to carry his mess if it’s print it’s “fishwrap” smelling up the news stand”. If it’s cable “ who watches this loser on a loser network” ?

By responding that way you have more impact and are closer to the truth than an explitive disgused in alphabet soup.

Also if you post an article and it’s about some politician from a state. Go to that state board and pick out a few of the posters in that state board and ping them in your comments so you get some comments from that state concerned.

[DeWalt]

According to conservatives you are not a conservative.