Ted Cruz and GOP Senate campaign arm part ways

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Cruz’s turbulent stint at the Republican Senate campaign arm is over.

The Hill reports today that Cruz isn’t being asked back by the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Sen. Roger Wicker.

The fact that Cruz is gearing up to run for president in 2016 made this parting of the ways inevitable and entirely predictable. But there was plenty of friction and ill will, too.

Just after the Texans’ election in November 2012, GOP leader Mitch McConnell – now the Senate majority leader—asked Cruz to serve as NRSC vice chairman in charge of grassroots outreach. In effect, he sought to bring the tea partier into the tent by making him the liaison to tea partiers.

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/ted-cruz-and-gop-senate-campaign-arm-part-ways.html/

[randys1]

1. Ted Cruz represents the end of American politics.

We now will fight tooth and nail just to not be starved to death by the likes of Cruz.

Our system has gone past the point of reason

[Fred Sanders]

2. In this day and age of microscopic examination of religious beliefs has anyone bothered to look

into the details of Ted Cruz's religious beliefs and his fervent learning from his preacher father..

[czarjak]

3. As the song goes...

"You knew I was a snake when you took me in", Mitch. (Or you should have)