GOP Senate pouring resources into saving least-liked member of its caucus: Ted Cruz

[Gothmog]

This makes me smile https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/12/1795291/-GOP-Senate-pouring-resources-into-saving-least-liked-member-of-its-caucus-Ted-Cruz

“Lyin' Ted” Cruz is actually in re-election trouble in a state that should be a gimme for Republicans: Texas. And now the Republican Senate, desperate to save its majority from “shipwreck,” is being forced to devote resources to prop up one of its most irredeemable members. The Washington Post's Sean Sullivan writes:

The sudden cooperation underscores how much the GOP fears losing Texas. The shock waves are being felt well beyond the state, as its several expensive media markets could force the party to spend money there that it will have to subtract from GOP hopefuls in other battlegrounds.

“Other campaigns are going to be shorted due to the lackluster nature of the campaign,” said one White House official, speaking of the Cruz operation.

Every dollar spent in Texas is a dollar not spent somewhere else, like Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Florida, etc. And it’s all to save Cruz, who has called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar from the Senate floor, and pretty much nailed it in 2016 when he accused then-candidate Donald Trump of being a "pathological liar." Cruz also famously riled up the House crazies into a frothy lather in 2013, producing a government shutdown that almost no one in the Senate caucus but him wanted

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1. Cruz is a joke. All he's interested in, is higher office, for he's god's answer to all questions...

Cruz has a few screws loose, and is mouthy as heck, and is a know-it-all.

He alienated everyone in Congress and no one wants to even work w/ him. A pathetic loser, and certainly not a team player.

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2. His ads started running in TX 13

TX 13 congressional district is the reddest GOP district in the nation. Statewide candidate ads there are not unheard of but they're not common and they sure as shit don't start airing this early.

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3. I need my eyes checked. At first read I thot it said, "...saving least-liked member of its cancer."

[Gothmog]

4. Inside the GOP's rescue mission for Ted Cruz

The key thing is that no republican expected to have to help Carnival Cruz and critical resources are being diverted from other key races to try to save Carnival Cruz https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/09/ted-cruz-reelection-trump-813354

The push reflects a broader anxiety within the party about the electoral environment this fall. It also has practical implications for the GOP: The resources devoted to Cruz include money that could otherwise be used to oust vulnerable incumbent Democrats in red states like North Dakota, Indiana and Missouri.

With O’Rourke outraising Cruz more than 2-to-1 during the past quarter, right-leaning organizations have begun sending resources to the state. The anti-tax Club for Growth, which spent millions on Cruz during his 2012 Senate bid, has started a seven-figure advertising blitz aimed at tearing down the Democratic congressman. The organization has begun polling the race, and David McIntosh, the organization’s president, recently traveled to Texas to meet with donors who could help fund the barrage. More than $1 million has been raised so far, people close to the group say.

I want Beto to beat Carnival Cruz and for the GOP to have wasted so many resources that we hold the seats in red states