Posted on 03/11/2014 7:42:24 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Lots of people in the Republican party are fed up with Sen. Ted Cruz, but Sen. Rand Paul is the guy who is doing something about it.
On Monday, the conservative news website, Breitbart News, published an op-ed by Paul, where the senator from Kentucky took Cruz to task -- without ever actually naming the guy who may be beloved by the Tea Party conservatives, but has earned some pretty impressive dislike from the elected members of his own party -- for his hijinks that Paul said have encouraged divisions within the party:
"I don't claim to be the next Ronald Reagan nor do I attempt to disparage fellow Republicans as not being sufficiently Reaganesque. But I will remind anyone who thinks we will win elections by trashing previous Republican nominees or holding oneself out as some paragon in the mold of Reagan, that splintering the party is not the route to victory."
Paul based the whole thing around Reagan, the guy that every Republican with presidential aspirations wants to grow up to be. Cruz has bucked the authority of party leaders and has made it routine to oppose anything that smells of compromise while likening himself to President Ronald Reagan. Because the Gipper is second only to God among Republicans, comparing yourself with him is on the level of calling yourself the Lord and Savior. In some circles -- the ones on the far sides of the inter-party divide -- it's worse.
Paul went over how one does not become the "next Reagan" by pretending to do what Reagan would have done.
"Every Republican likes to think he or she is the next Ronald Reagan. Some who say this do so for lack of their own ideas and agenda. Reagan was a great leader and President. But too often people make him into something he wasn't in order to serve their own political purposes."
Of course, Paul and Cruz are both angling to be on the top of the 2016 Republican ticket, so it's not exactly a shock to see Paul call Cruz out in a backhanded fashion over Cruz's claims to Reagan's legacy. At the same time Paul himself is hoping a little of that Reagan magic rubs off. He put out the op-ed in Breitbart pleading for people to find some tolerance and stop splitting the Republican party up.
YES! Just fodder for the Dems. They LOVE internal division......and they sow a lot of the seeds to create it. Can anyone say James Carville?
Right on the money. The GOPe pukes, among them, Boehner and McConnell have moved left of the RAT party of the early 80s.
Reagan would not hesitate to call them out.
For all those who think Rand Paul is Conservative, I have one thing to say -- explain his support for McConnell.
Anyone who truly cherishes our Constitution knows clearly and without a doubt that McConnell is direct threat to our Republic.
Perhaps this was true 30 years ago, but there is plenty of evidence these days indicating that is not the case. These phonies have been winning office by running as 'conservatives' and running the country as socialists.
Someone needs to call them out.
With either Cruz or Paul or Palin at the top of the ticket you will need a “moderate” as VP to expand the voters pool to get elected. Yeah that sucks, but Cruz/Christie, Paul/Bush, Palin/Ryan or something like that is what it will take to win. Notice also that there is a state governor on each ticket. Voters like state governors, they have executive experiences and a track record of the same.
Sounds like SoConPubbie.
Don't you get it? Nobody wants people who bent to the will of the elite.
Ryan would be a good pick if he didn’t have Romney-itis.
Thanks for this thread.
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HEY! Dianna Wray! Yeah YOU!
These were the lead words in your article: “Lots of people in the Republican party are fed up with Sen. Ted Cruz, but Sen. Rand Paul is the guy who is doing something about it.”
The phrase “Lots of People in the Republican Party” implies that there are so many people that you do not even have to document that any of them have names!
We Conservatives have names for these “Lots of People in the Republican Party,” and they are known to us collectively as “Republicans in Name Only,” “RINOs,” or RINO Cowards.
In the US House the Leadership of the RINO Cowards include “Benghazi Cover Up” Boehner, “Can’t Impeach Obama” Cantor, and “Cave In” Ryan.
In “Do Nothing Legal” Reid’s US Senate, the Leadership of the RINO Cowards include “Son-of-a-Mitch” McConnell, “Corrupt as they come” Cornyn, and Loser Emeritus “Wacko Bird” McCain.
The above partial list of your “Lots of People” are all RINO Cowards, tried and true who have done their best to avoid doing their Constitutional Duty for the last five years of lawless Obamanation Rule.
Replacement of these RINO Cowards is essential to the survival of the US Constitution by either Senator Paul or Senator Cruz.
BTW, all of us Conservatives have been fed up, for more years than we care to remember, with you journalists in the Left Stream Media.
She doesn’t want the Republicans to win.
Holding out hope for a Wendy Davis governor win.
HairBalls (which is where her columns run) is a bratty column in the Houston Press where libs laugh at Republicans, religious observers, and the Texans NFL franchise.
Yup, even in TEXAS we have a few Obamanation supporters.
BTW, have you noticed how the Left Stream Media supports all Cave Ins to Obama by Doormat RINO Cowards Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, McConnell, Cornyn and “Wacko Bird” McCain?
Yes indeedy! Doormat RINO Cowards are Obama’s best friends forever!
FORWARD !
My only absolute "I'm voting 3rd party" guy is Christie - and this is from a guy who voted twice for him for governor.
I have higher standards for America than I do for Jersey.
And that is why i wont be voting for randy paul in the primary.
RANDY Paul breaks the Rragan rule about not speaking ill of other republicans.
Every hack liberal newsie in the country will be quoting him and slamming Cruz. F%#@ RANDY Paul.
Point taken, but again I say IF HE ENDS UP BEING THE NOMINEE AND WE DON’T VOTE, WE GIVE THE PRESIDENCY TO THE DEMS AGAIN. I’d rather DIE than see another eight years of commie red.
Romney wouldn’t have been in my top 20 even, but he would have been much better Pres than Obama. Or do you not even agree with THAT?
A Stay AT Home is a vote to let hitlery win and to let America finish bleeding out.
There is probably not a dime’s difference between Rand and Cruz, either will do America right.
“There is probably not a dime’s difference between Rand and Cruz, either will do America right.”
But that is where we disagree — There is a continent between them on the US as a superpower and on marijuana.
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