Posted on 03/24/2015 11:35:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For conservative activists, the first day of Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign was a time to gush.
On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh called Cruz’s kickoff speech Monday “masterful” and “flat-out amazing.” Grass-roots pioneer Richard Viguerie called him a “top-tier movement conservative.” And the Tea Party Patriots hailed his entry, saying Cruz had “yielded to no one” in championing its values.
Meanwhile, for Cruz’s Republican colleagues in the Senate, it was a time to equivocate.
“I’m just holding off until I see what the field looks like,” said Daniel Coats (R-Ind.).
“I’m going to support the nominee of the party,” said Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.).
“I just hope he spends a lot of time in Iowa, how’s that?” said Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).
The guarded response from Republicans in the Senate, where Cruz has served just over two years, reflects the presidential ambitions of other senators — Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have openly pondered runs — but also Cruz’s famously sharp-elbowed relationship with his colleagues and the institution he inhabits.
In his short time in the Senate, Cruz has arguably become the most polarizing figure in all of Congress. While he has won the loyalty of some rogue House conservatives and a small group of far-right senators, his tactics have angered many colleagues in both parties.
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In other words “They can’t handle the truth”!
[ Cruz did NOT act like a freshman senator — he understood his mandate and took it to where it needed to be. ]
They are running the senate like a Frat House, Cruz came in and ignored their artificial pecking order and DID HIS JOB as an ADVOCATE for the people who ELECTED him.
This pissed off the Frat Boys like Mitch “Pledge Bitch” McConnell and John “Jockstrap” McCain.
They make it sound like its a bad thing.
Recall the fairy tale - The King is wearing no clothes! The establishment kings do not want their butts exposed.
The sissified girly-men can go wet their pants in a corner. The women can go comfort them.
We need a man, a real man who is unafraid and unapologetic for loving America and wanting us to be responsible and strong!
If there’s truly scant praise for him in the Senate, that only increases his appeal in my mind.
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