Posted on 01/18/2016 1:24:59 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz, one of the great phonies to ever run for President, the great pretender of the current political season, says that he is the candidate best suited to unify the country. He can only hope to unify it the way he already has his own party, which hates him more than it hates the President.
"Believe me," Rep. Pete King told me on Sunday, "there are a helluva lot of Republican congressmen and senators who, even if they agree with Cruz on issues -- can't stand him personally, and really do dislike him more than Barack Obama."
This isn't about the fight that Cruz picked with New York, city and state. That was a fight stopped on cuts almost as soon as it began. No, this is about someone who carries himself as the one candidate speaking up for American values, who carries himself like some kind of American hero, even though his campaign slogan should be this:
Where's mine?
When Cruz issued an apology to New Yorkers the other day that was about as sincere as his smile, he finished by telling Sean Hannity, "I apologize . . . to the millions of conservatives, working men and women in New York with common-sense values."
This comes from somebody who has the instincts of an inside trader, from somebody who wants to be the real political outsider in this race, even though he is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law and the George W. Bush administration; who was a Supreme Court clerk; who is the former corporate lawyer who now says it just slipped his mind to file the proper paperwork about a Goldman Sachs loan he got when running for the U.S. Senate.
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FNY
Virtually every politician has a messiah complex, to include every politician you have ever voted for, and every politician you have ever held in a high regard. Why do you think they run?...because they are the ones that are going to save us from (fill in the blank).
The question is, which politician aligns most with your morals and values in both word and deed.
For me, that person is TED CRUZ...by far.
Much worse.
That'll take you across the finish line for sure.
Can you tell me where his (Trump’s) poll numbers went down? In Iowa, Cruz rose to above Trump, Trump’s did not go down, though that does not appear to be the case now, it’s virtually tied or Trump up within MOE. The next two primary states after Iowa Trump is up 10 points or more...I still don’t know where his numbers dropped, unless Ted’s referring to states where Trump’s numbers dropped from 25 points up to 20 points up.
Cruz is not perfect but he is the most conservative candidate in a generation and yet some conservatives won’t have him because he is not liked by the criminals in Washington, the very same vichy Republicans these same conservatives loath in Washington. They won’t have him because he isn’t conservative enough. They won’t have him because of his wife’s employer. They won’t have him because they buy the line he isn’t electable.
It’s easy to see why we keep getting liberal mush heads
like McStain and Romney. Conservatives keep shooting themselves in the foot. The only difference this time around is Trump, otherwise it would Little Jebbie or the Rube winning the nomination for those who hate Cruz...
It’s a sign of the times.
So now we bash Cruz because he isn’t liked by the GOP establishment, is that what’s being claimed here???
And that if he was a really good politician he would unit the GOPe and conservatives - is that it really?
It is a badge of honor that Pete King and the rest of the GOPe hate him.
You Trump supporters have really gone off the deep end.
I don’t think Reagan, W, McCain and or Romney had a “messiah” complex...Obama did/does...but not the others. They may be confident and impressed with themselves, but not a Messiah complex...
I may have no choice but to vote for that creep but this will be the first time that I will ever have felt sleazy voting for a Republican--and I voted for Nixon, which is really saying a lot!
I may have no choice but to vote for that creep but this will be the first time that I will ever have felt sleazy voting for a Republican--and I voted for Nixon, which is really saying a lot!
Liberals HATE Cruz. They seem to want to help conservatives understand why he is so dangerous. The hatred of liberals is a great endorsement.
Cruz is the best candidate in the race.
I can support Trump, if he doesn’t move to the left in the general.
Would be very happy with Trump-Cruz ticket.
Politico has become the go to source for Freeper Cruz supporters. It's also a primary outlet for the GOPe message. No coincidence.
There was a time when members on Free Republic would post articles by NYDN, Salon, Slate, Huffington Post, NYT etc. so as to ridule, rip, debunk, discredit, and expose.
Now they’re posting them to bash the one true conservative in the race.
“Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!”
No, Trump defending Hillary AFTER Benghazi and people on FR still supporting him shows we have lots of magnanimous people.
The former must have got him a non-sports soapbox.
Mike Lupica? When you scrape the bottom of the barrel you don’t find Mike Lupics. You have to turn the barrel over, find the stone under it and look under that for Mike Lupica.
GOP Polls for Jan. 16: State of the Race in Iowa & New Hampshire
According to the highly regarded poll from the Des Moines Register, Cruz leads Trump 25 percent to 22 percent, with Rubio at 12 percent and Ben Carson at 11.
They want Cruz over at Politico because they know he can be beaten.
How sad for us.
Sorry, I know lots of people in the political biz, from staffers, to consultants, to direct mail guys, etc. and they all say the same thing: virtually all politicians have an infallibility/messiah complex, no matter which side of the political aisle they are on.
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