It Is Time for Ted Cruz to Leave the National Republican Senatorial Committee

RedState ^ | May 18th, 2014 at 06:00 AM | Erick Erickson

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz is the Vice Chairman for Grassroots Outreach of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (“NRSC”). It is through that appointment that the NRSC hoped to patch up its differences with conservatives.

Instead, it is more and more clear the NRSC is both at war with those groups who support Ted Cruz and at war with those candidates most likely to assist Ted Cruz in the Senate.

From the relationship, the NRSC gets the veneer of working with conservatives and Ted Cruz gets beaten up at every opportunity by the NRSC and its staff and outside consultants.

Here for example, is an NRSC paid consultant subtly attacking Cruz. There have been plenty out in the open in the past. Likewise, the NRSC worked against Ben Sasse in Nebraska, going so far as to invite lobbyists over to their building to fund Shane Osborn’s campaign.

In Mississippi, the NRSC is on a witch hunt to tie Chris McDaniel’s campaign to some nut who overstepped the bounds of propriety. Now that McDaniel is ahead in most polls, the NRSC is attacking him savagely, the groups that support him, and relying on a handful of reporters who write negative stories about Cruz to write negative stories about McDaniel.

The goals Cruz supports are not supported by the NRSC. The candidates most likely to support Cruz are most likely to be opposed by the NRSC. There is no longer a justification for Cruz to be affiliated with the NRSC in a Vice Chairman’s position.

Frankly, if Cruz won’t go to Mississippi and endorse McDaniel, the least he could do for his own freaking side is publicly repudiate the NRSC.

[SoConPubbie]

We have seen those quotes enough times, couldn’t you just combine your ping list and the flag, into a smaller first postm if you need to personalize every thread?

Ansel, You are the first person to complain about this and I have had many compliments on the quotes.

They are not spam, they are relevant to the discussion at hand.

They'll stay for right now, unless I am asked by the mods to remove them.

[SoConPubbie]

It’s because the GOPe are just liberals that don’t like paying taxes.

Bingo!

[SoConPubbie]

Thanks for the ping!

No Problem. :)

[SoConPubbie]

That doesn't mean the McDaniel campaign or McDaniel himself was involved, but that's at least a wee bit suspicious: http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/17/melanie-sojourner-thad-cochran-wife-break-in/9215899 Just dismissing it out of hand like Erickson does in this piece doesn't explain those questions away.

No, I'll tell you what is suspicious. It's you pretending that there is smoke there when there is absolutely no proof that McDaniels or his staff had anything to do with it.

[ansel12]

It seems a bit overly intrusive to make it a part of every thread on Cruz, that is an awful lot of screen real estate to have to scroll through hundreds, and eventually, thousands of times, to get to the actual comments.

A banner ad would be less annoying, and more profitable.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I would say it seems classy and makes a good point.

I’m all for it.

(just offering another opinion)

[Republican Wildcat]

That’s not a response to what I said.