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Related: About this forumFor Ted Cruz, crazy is a family business - By Joan Walsh
Ted and his far-right father are having a grand old party wooing GOP primary voters -- and scaring normal peopleBY JOAN WALSH
Be careful what you wish for. The Republican Party sought a crop of new leaders with the vitality and ideological fire both Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney lacked heading into 2016. Now theyve got them, most notably Sen. Ted Cruz, whos leading the charge to either defund Obamacare or shut down the government, to the horror of McCain and other so-called establishment Republicans (as if there were any such thing.) Even Tea Party Sen. Rand Paul has maybe kinda sorta suggested that shutting down the government to defund Obamacare is a bad idea even though he signed Sen. Mike Lees letter threatening to do so.
Cruz has no such qualms. Headlining former Sen. Jim DeMint and the Heritage Foundations Defund Obamacare rally last night in Dallas, he fired up the crowd with his Obama attacks. (Of course, I cant help but note the irony of Heritage sponsoring Cruzs Defund Obamacare tour when Heritage was the source of one of the plans key provisions: the individual mandate to carry health insurance.) Even though some Obama defenders showed up and heckled Cruz, the junior Texas senator and his father were the stars of the night.
Weve all seen this movie before, Cruz told the audience. President Obama and Harry Reid are gonna scream and yell those mean, nasty Republicans are threatening to shut down the government. He went on: One side or the other has to blink. How do we win this fight? Dont blink! Only squishes blink.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/08/21/there%E2%80%99s_no_cruz_control/
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For Ted Cruz, crazy is a family business - By Joan Walsh (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2013
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MindMover
(5,016 posts)1. Cruz is a certifiable nutjob that has a knack for the English language ----
be careful all you gun toting racists what you wish for ..... you got it
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)2. Calgary Cruz.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. funny that 'squishes' word, the Rs now use to mock their own little r baggers
salon must be in charge of threat media against their own
little R squishes should unite and stand up for themselves..afterall they voted republican. all they got is a pile of old signs, hot-dog bus rides, & cheap tea-shirts.
UTUSN
(70,706 posts)4. r#6 & k nt
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)5. Ted Cruz's Dad was for Communism before he was against it. nt
libodem
(19,288 posts)6. Dooode
Don't knock 'squishes' that's what I call my cat.
You haven't had cat love until you've had squishy cat love.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)7. Let's make sure we give him
And his daddy all the airtime they want. Nothing deflates the career of an extremist like public exposure. This half baked Bircher is headed for the trash heap of history.
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