Ted Cruz Starts to Crack G.O.P. Establishment’s Wall of Opposition

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Striding up the sidewalk of one of this city’s most affluent neighborhoods on Monday evening, S. Scott Sewell seemed an unlikely figure to be attending a fund-raiser for Senator Ted Cruz. An oil industry executive, Mr. Sewell served in President George Bush’s administration, lent a hand to George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential recount, and was twice a chairman for Mitt Romney’s Louisiana campaigns.

But if such a creature of the Republican establishment appeared an odd fit to support a candidate whose political identity was shaped challenging his party’s leadership, the candlelit, art-filled setting for Mr. Cruz’s reception was even more surprising: the elegant home of the longtime Bush loyalist Mary Matalin and her husband, James Carville, the Democratic strategist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/politics/ted-cruz-starts-to-crack-gop-establishments-wall-of-opposition.html



Looks like Ted Cruz will be the one!

[randys1]

1. Crossing my fingers, toes, eyes, etc

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Ted Cruz is collecting money at Carville's house? They deserve each other.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Now that is what you call strange

bed fellows. Carville and Clinton and now Cruz and Matelin. Who said it isn't about the money.