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2022-01-07 Home Front: Politix

No single politician will end up being perfectly attuned to the needs of the voters. There is a reason Senator Cruz did not beat out Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and didn’t try to in 2020.

[AmericanThinker] I know from the volume of email I've received on it that Ted Cruz's comments on January 6, 2021, calling it "a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol," have outraged many conservatives. Ted was once the darling of intellectually inclined conservatives, but I think the bloom is now off that rose.

Tucker Carlson used video of Cruz's comments as the keystone of a segment on how Republicans are being cowardly and granting Democrats their false premises on the riot at the Capitol being an insurrection or even a "terrorist attack." As Tucker put it, he was delivering talking points for Merrick Garland.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-01-07 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11150 views ] Top

#1 He went on Tucker tonight to wiggle his way out of the blowback he is getting. He said he always calls people who attack cops terrists for the past 10 years and that he was not referring to Trump supporters. Tucker bluntly told Cruz people who attack cops have never been called terrorists.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-07 01:01|| 2022-01-07 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Good debater. Shitty character.

= Weasel; not to be trusted

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-07 01:04|| 2022-01-07 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Bastard should leave Texas and go someplace where a rat bastard like him will be welcome...like California or Washington or New Jersey.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-01-07 01:38|| 2022-01-07 01:38|| Front Page Top

#4 About the same time Maxwell went up the river. Coincident?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-01-07 07:34|| 2022-01-07 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Positioning himself to be closer to Beetle O'Rourke.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-07 08:02|| 2022-01-07 08:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Abbott, Pompeo, Trump. Who else? But when the pres & vice pres are impeached by the house and found guilty by the senate in 2023 McCarthy will become pres.

Posted by irish rage boy 2022-01-07 09:26|| 2022-01-07 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 All principles have a shelf life in DC.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-01-07 09:52|| 2022-01-07 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 'One of the most astounding things I've seen!'

Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-07 10:34|| 2022-01-07 10:34|| Front Page Top

#9 I think of DC / The Beltway as the Borg collective, and Cruz has finally been assimilated.

Posted by Raj 2022-01-07 10:39|| 2022-01-07 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 While Cruz isn't an establishment cuck, I still think he believes that overall it is a net positive force and works to support the parts he believes in.

This was just signaling to what he thinks is the libertarians and pro-larger government of the GOP to set up his run for 2024.

I doubt he is aware of how much towards small government and anti-establishment the GOP and libertarians have shifted towards and now is covered in the backblast of his very ignorant remarks. This one statement has pretty much doomed any 2024 hopes he had, especially if Trump and/or DeSantis are running and has put a very large hole in his re-election prospects too.

I think he will survive re-election, but barely.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-01-07 11:58|| 2022-01-07 11:58|| Front Page Top

#11 I was a Cruz fan until this. I'll still support him but not blindly and not for President. This just showed a level of disconnect with voters I find disconcerting.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-01-07 12:10|| 2022-01-07 12:10|| Front Page Top

#12 He wasn't misspeaking. He was pandering. He was groveling. And not to you and me.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-07 12:14|| 2022-01-07 12:14|| Front Page Top

#13 One man's terrorist is another man's patriot.
Good Bye Ted. I'll never support you.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-01-07 12:19|| 2022-01-07 12:19|| Front Page Top

#14 He could have just kept his mouth shut but I guess that's asking a bit much from a politician.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-01-07 12:37|| 2022-01-07 12:37|| Front Page Top

#15 Major blunder.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-01-07 12:38|| 2022-01-07 12:38|| Front Page Top

#16

kudos to Tucker for just flat out saying 'I don't believe you'. No one else does either. He's walking it back b/c he knows people saw it and his career is probably over.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-01-07 13:24|| 2022-01-07 13:24|| Front Page Top

#17 How you get your ticket punched for the gala. Easy to get caught up in, but not an excuse.

Tucker is right, literally a year of rioting with cops being assaulted physically and psychologically and nobody mentions terrorism, even as domestic terrorist initiatives are discussed and buried.

FBI puts on a Boot Hill cosplay then turns it over to the tour guides and boom worst thing since Whiskey Rebellion.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-07 13:27|| 2022-01-07 13:27|| Front Page Top

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