[Blackirish]

The entire premise of this article is flawed. The shutdown was a idiotic idea. ...even Mike Lee is backpedaling from it. The thing that salvaged the Republicans was the disastrous roll out of Obamcare.

[Balding_Eagle]

I think a successful rollout would have been even more disastrous for the Dems.

Everyone would have been hit with the big premium increases in October, and the uproar would have been truly amazing.

Either way, Ted was dead on with his strategy.

[SoConPubbie]

The entire premise of this article is flawed. The shutdown was a idiotic idea. ...even Mike Lee is backpedaling from it. The thing that salvaged the Republicans was the disastrous roll out of Obamcare.

You're right, it was an idiotic idea, why do you think the Democrats pursued that idea anyway?

Senator Cruz stated all along he was against the Shutdown, all he wanted to do was not fund Obamacare. He was all for funding the rest of the government, just not the latest socialistic addition to the government called Obamacare.

Oh, and BTW, the whole thing was worth it given it smoked out all the fakers proclaiming they were against Obamacare and then did nothing about it.

It aid bare the hypocrisy of those GOP Senators and congressmen that were lying all along about being conservative and made it painfully clear to the voters, and especially the base, who could be trusted and who could not be trusted.