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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Nov 13, 2013, 08:30 PM Nov 2013

Ted Cruz: Attacks on me are really ‘directed at the American people’ [View all]




Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said recently that opponents who criticized him were really attacking all of the American people.

Ann Marie Murrell and Dr. Gina Loudon of the conservative website Politichicks caught up with Cruz at what they described as a “top-secret dinner” following his Friday appearance on NBC’s Tonight Show.

“We all asked, we begged for someone to stand up for us and then you stood up for us,” Murrell told the senator. “But then you were denigrated by both the left and the right. Does this make you want to chunk it in or does this make you want to fight harder for us?”

“I’m encouraged,” Cruz insisted. “I’m encouraged because I think all across the country, I think people are getting energized, they’re getting engaged, they’re speaking up. And we shouldn’t be surprised. Changing the country isn’t easy. And the establishment is going to fight back. In both parties, they don’t want to change.”

“And so, the reason — the nastier the attacks get — I mean, they’re directed at all of us, they are directed at the American people,” he continued. “Because a lot of the folks in Washington don’t want to be held accountable.”

Regarding the possibility of a 2016 presidential run, Cruz warned that “we don’t have a long time to turn this country around.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/13/ted-cruz-attacks-on-me-are-really-directed-at-the-american-people/
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You'll have to excuse Teddy. He suffers from illusions of grandeur. Scuba Nov 2013 #1
He's a real life Loki! Initech Nov 2013 #14
I could not even describe how hurt I am that anyone would dare criticize Saint Ted Bjorn Against Nov 2013 #2
he is full of himself sad-cafe Nov 2013 #3
You don't speak for me, Teddy boy. Arkana Nov 2013 #4
that is one arrogant self-important fuckwad there! lastlib Nov 2013 #5
What a grandiose fucking buffoon. nt bluestate10 Nov 2013 #6
someone's got an ego that doersn't match his accomplishments. gopiscrap Nov 2013 #7
The thing that get me is that people that make up a physical minority bluestate10 Nov 2013 #8
It is pretty mixed up Butch McQueen Nov 2013 #11
What a dummy ailsagirl Nov 2013 #9
No. I'm really attacking YOU, blobfish-faced Canadian freak. TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #10
"All that you are, you are through me; and all that I am, I am through you alone." . . . Journeyman Nov 2013 #12
Actually Ted they are really directed at you. yellowcanine Nov 2013 #13
No dickweed its all about you........you!! Historic NY Nov 2013 #15
"L'etat, c'est moi." Mayberry Machiavelli Nov 2013 #16
Too bad he can't meet same end as a later Louis of France Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2013 #17
no ted, really, they are directed at you, directly directed at you. spanone Nov 2013 #18
Who died and made you the American people, Teddy? meow2u3 Nov 2013 #19
Don't you see, everyone? Jamaal510 Nov 2013 #20
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