Posted on 11/13/2013 4:18:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Pundits in Washington simply cannot decide about Ted Cruz. Does the Texas senator’s demagoguery more resemble that of Joe McCarthy (the New Yorker), or Father Charles Coughlin (MSNBC)? Was his fight to defund Obamacare a political version of General Custer’s last stand, or was it General Pickett’s charge (separate columns, both in the Washington Post)? Will Cruz hold the country hostage like the Taliban (the Daily Beast) or remake his party in his image like Vladimir Lenin (the Atlantic)? Should we imagine him as Don Quixote, the clueless would-be knight tilting at windmills (the New York Times), or as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, the 10-story minion of evil from the 1984 film Ghostbusters (the Guardian)?
In fairness, the capital’s scriveners are used to one-dimensional characters and ready-made narratives, and Ted Cruz is a tough man to peg. He was born in bashful Canada, but raised in cocksure Texas. He drank from the gilded chalice of the Ivy League, but then spat out its bitter orthodoxy. He’s the thinking man’s Tea Partier, and the Tea Partier’s thinking man. He tromps through the country’s highest deliberative body in black cowboy boots and tosses off words like “Rawlsian” in a soft Southern drawl. He’s cool and unflappable under pressure, yet ambitious and—depending on your view—dangerous. “I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years,” pronounced that shiny, hairless spheroid James Carville on television back in May. “I further think that he’s going to run for president and he’s going to create something.”
I ask the affable Texan about Cruzmania in a recent interview, reading from a list of quotations. “The Republican Barack Obama.” “Cruz is to public speaking what Michael Phelps was to swimming.” “Cruz is not just another whack job—he’s a highly intelligent whack job.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
He and Palin have something wonderful in store for America and it will definitely NOT be of satan.
Firstly, Ted Cruz’ narrative is NOT ‘demagoguery.’
His words echo the most fundamental tenets of the ideas, principles and values upon which this country was founded and affirmed in the US Constitution.
It makes no difference how or why they try to discredit and demean him. He has something all their lackeys, sycophants, crooks and ghouls couldn’t buy with an ocean full of money - ideological support of millions and millions of us out here in real America whose ideals CANNOT be bought with entitlements.
They shall see just how strong that support is in 2014 and in 2016.
This author clearly recognizes and fears the depth, breadth, and appeal Ted Cruz brings to the scene.
This is why he strives to mischaracterize and dismiss Ted.
uh...excuse me....
There is merit to reading past the first paragraph.....
I see Ted Cruz as a new wave Republican/Conservative Crusader.
The media currently is loath to credit Ted Cruz as RIGHT in early October. Just crickets on this issue. He’s still the “radical” who tried to protect millions of people about to be screwed by a nefarious law. In fact, he gave the Rats a lifeline that they swatted away.
That the political class hates and fears him is a very, very good thing.
Cruz speaks in a nearly lost tongue, the language of our Framers.
:)
I finally caught video of Ted’s appearance on Leno and he was just terrific. Leno got increasing frustrated that his pre-scripted cross examination questions didn’t phase Cruz in the slightest. Cruz is the real deal - that’s why they are trying so hard to destroy him.
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More and more often, when faced with bad news from D.C., I find myself thinking, “But now Ted Cruz is there.”
Praying continually for him.
Cruz on Fox and Friends in a minute or two!
‘But I ask anyway, and I try to be tricky about it. Several prominent outlets, including National Review, had reported that Cruz—in the most preliminary terms—had discussed a presidential bid. Did they need to issue a correction?
He doesn’t bite. “I cannot help what the media chooses to report. What I can tell you is that my focus is 100 percent on the U.S. Senate,” he says. “And I take very seriously my obligation to 26 million Texans, to come to work every day, and to stand up, and fight for them.”
That’s all well and good, senator. But come 2016, the other 288 million Americans just might decide they need you, too.’
One can only hope!
Updates, please!
As always, the left will always let us know who they most fear.
“This author clearly recognizes and fears the depth, breadth, and appeal Ted Cruz brings to the scene.
This is why he strives to mischaracterize and dismiss Ted.
You obviously misunderstand The American Spectator, definitely not a copycat publication.
You obviously missed my post #5
I read the entire article and have been doing so since 1970.
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