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liberal N proud

(60,302 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 06:44 AM Sep 2013

How Unpopular Is Ted Cruz Right Now?

Republican pushback against the junior senator from Texas is a thing to behold.

Watching the pushback against Senator Ted Cruz right now is like watching a group of kids who have been in thrall to a bully suddenly wake up to who he is and start working to cut him down to size. Republican members of Congress who were once his allies have begun to turn on a man who has become an outsize figure in their party since winning office less than one year ago.

“As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz,” Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said on his show. "Why are Republicans so angry at Ted Cruz?"

"You cannot build a congressional majority, in either party, for any kind of action, unless you are treating your colleagues with some certain amount of respect, and saying, ‘Hey, what do you think of my idea?’” Karl Rove told Wallace, speaking of Cruz and Utah Senator Mike Lee, who are together leading the Don't Fund Obamacare movement. “Instead they have dictated to their colleagues ... and not consulted them about this strategy at all.”


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/how-unpopular-is-ted-cruz-right-now/279903/

The republican leadership can't control this monster created by the teabaggers.
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How Unpopular Is Ted Cruz Right Now? (Original Post) liberal N proud Sep 2013 OP
Wait until the government shuts down and everyone points at him. Motown_Johnny Sep 2013 #1
Cruz never had any allies on Capitol Hill. TexasTowelie Sep 2013 #2
He is the epitome of greed and evil. eom dotymed Sep 2013 #3
Never forget that the Teabaggers are ReTHUGs malaise Sep 2013 #4
Teabaggers will be the final demise of the RepubliCON party. n/t RoccoR5955 Sep 2013 #5
Karl Rove frantically launches Operation Cruz Control. tanyev Sep 2013 #6
good one. Cha Sep 2013 #15
After reading the article ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2013 #7
Karl rove? mgardener Sep 2013 #8
Rove may not have started ratfuck politics Jackpine Radical Sep 2013 #10
He is an embarrassment to Texans Not Sure Sep 2013 #9
Republican leadership can't control their own masters: the Koch brothers and the conservative 1% Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2013 #11
Perhaps he will end up like his look alike and sound alike riverbendviewgal Sep 2013 #12
he is building name recognition oldandhappy Sep 2013 #13
feeding frezy from his "friends". Javaman Sep 2013 #14
Apparently popular enough with the people of Texas Le Taz Hot Sep 2013 #16
... Ellipsis Sep 2013 #17
 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
1. Wait until the government shuts down and everyone points at him.
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 06:49 AM
Sep 2013

That 1/ 3 of 1% of the population that signed his petition (assuming all the signatures were real) will love him. Other than that, not so much.

TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
2. Cruz never had any allies on Capitol Hill.
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 06:50 AM
Sep 2013

The man never learned how to share his toys with anyone else so he doesn't understand how to work in that environment.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
7. After reading the article ...
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 08:38 AM
Sep 2013

cruz suddenly makes sense (to this armchair pyschologist) ... cruz is that outsider kid that no one likes because he/she is a brat; whose parents explain away his/her unpopularity by blaming the other kids.

mgardener

(1,799 posts)
8. Karl rove?
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 08:44 AM
Sep 2013

Isn't this exactly what karl rove did in his years of Texas politics and 8 years in the WH?
Is he pulling a mea culpa?

This is the result of Karl Rove's politics. he started this nasty types of politics. He courted these crazy RW evangelicals. he created/funded the tea party.

He is reaping what he sowed and he doesn't like it?
The most delicious part of all this is that he will have to clean up his own mess and destroy the republican party in the mean time.
if it does not destroy him first.

I do not feel sorry for karl Rove. I hope he gets exactly what he deserves.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
10. Rove may not have started ratfuck politics
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 09:05 AM
Sep 2013

(I'd credit Lee Atwater with that honor), but he greatly advanced it. He was the Galileo of Hellworld politics to Atwater's Copernicus.

Not Sure

(735 posts)
9. He is an embarrassment to Texans
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 08:58 AM
Sep 2013

He portrays himself as one of the "no more taxes" mouth breathers that elected him, but he's actually a corporate grifter who is using what he has in common with the tea pity-party thugs to exploit their mandate to do the bidding of his corporate masters. I am hopeful he is the one tea party leader egocentric and greedy enough to expose how stupid the movement is.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
11. Republican leadership can't control their own masters: the Koch brothers and the conservative 1%
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 10:02 AM
Sep 2013
The republican leadership can't control this monster created by the teabaggers.


The creators of the teabaggers and the masters of the Republican party are the conservatives among the 1% (there are progressives and liberals among the 1% too). The Koch brothers and their ilk are pulling all the strings and McConnell and Boehner are well aware of it and not able to do much if anything about it.

There used to be talk about the "country club Republicans". They are sidelined almost as much as the working classes by the bubble boys of the 1% who have not had any empathy for real people for decades.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
13. he is building name recognition
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 10:47 AM
Sep 2013

He wants to be known, maybe doesn't care how but just to have his name out there. And he is raising money. I am not sure he will ever run for president, but right now he is making himself a household name and building the bank account. And being very very destructive to the country.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
16. Apparently popular enough with the people of Texas
Tue Sep 24, 2013, 09:11 PM
Sep 2013

and that's all he needs. I'd give a snarky "thank you" to Texas voters if it wasn't for the fact that we Californians gave you Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.

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