On consecutive days, articles whining about Sen. Ted Cruz have appeared at Politico, WaPo and The New York Times.
Coordinated attack? Isn’t everything they do?
For those of us weary of the somnambulating parade of GOP Treebeards who are never in a hurry to get anything accomplished, this means he must be doing something right.
Back to the coordination. It’s standard operating procedure for the MSM to work from the same list of talking points to attack any Republican who threatens them. It’s pathetic and transparent, yet they’re far too mentally deficient in the Mother of all Echo Chambers to understand that. Other than the arrangement of the paragraphs and the bylines, these three pieces are, for all intents and purposes, the same article.
Here are excerpts from each.
A fascinating illustration, too. On the surface, he should be part of the solution: young, Latino, with a hardscrabble family story including his father’s imprisonment in Cuba and escape to the United States. But Republicans who look to him and see any kind of savior overlook much of what drags the party down, which isn’t merely or even principally the genealogy of their candidates. It’s the intransigent social conservatism, the whiff of meanness and the showy eruptions. It’s what Cruz, who rode a wave of Tea Party ardor to victory in Texas in November, distills.
Frank Bruni must have missed his marching orders for the “Conservatives will kill the GOP” concern trolling that was all the rage as recently as yesterday so he dovetails the two memes here.
The traditional stance for a freshman senator is to hold back a bit. Being reticent and deferential are not qualities that come naturally to those who manage to win Senate seats, but most new senators choose, as much as it clashes with their instincts, to tamp down.
Not Cruz.
Oooooh, he’s uppity. “That “traditional stance” is also part of the neutering process for new senators, which has turned the once august body into a chamber of harumphing photo-op junkies who aren’t much fond of real work. Cruz has a pair and obviously prefers to keep them.
Finally, Politico.
And the Texas tea partier was quick to annoy one of the most powerful Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, after he engaged in a combative line of questioning with the New Yorker on a recent Sunday talk show, even though senators from opposing parties are typically far more collegial in those settings.
OMG, CHUCK SCHUMER WAS ANNOYED?!?!? He’s usually such a teddy bear.
What really rankles the MSM and entrenched senators is that Cruz is committing that most heinous of modern American political crimes: he’s behaving as the people who elected him expect him to, without regard for the admission requirements into either the “Media Favored Republican” or “Senate Good Old Boy” clubs.
Yeah, he’s kind of freaking them out.
Yep!
You can add Morning Joe (MSNBC) to the list:
http://plbirnamwood.blogspot.com/2013/02/ted-cruz-on-chuck-hagel-morning-joe.html
Burn the witch conservative Hispanic!
May God keep and strengthen Ted Cruz; he seems to be violating the go along to get along collegial atmosphere that has allowed our elected leaders to get us into the fiscal nightmare we are watching play itself out.
Trash and McCarthyite.
If you’re annoying Idiot Babs the real McCarthyite and the insufferable Claire the thief, plus Mealy-mouthed Lindsey and feckless McCain, you’re doing something right.
And I don’t have to know anymore than these four are bewildered by your actions to know I already like you.
Give ‘um hell, Ted.
Cruz is better choice than Rubio. Marco now, sadly, wants to be part of the club.
You know you are over the target when you are drawing the most flak.
Don’t the MSM realize they are providing Sen Cruz with gobs of free advertising?
Every Senator worth his salt should be begging the WAPO to write an article calling him uppity.
Could y’all enlighten me on a point? If Cruz was a Democrat, wouldn’t calling him uppity result in everybody calling the news organization raaacist? Seems what we have here is an American of Hispanic descent who decided to figure things out for himself and follow his beliefs, and is now being attacked by the tolerant, inclusive, diversity-loving libs at WAPO et al.
“OMG, he left the plantation! Burn him at the stake before any other slaves follow his lead!”
Liberals would have been much happier with David Dewhurst winning the Senate seat in Texas — even if it remained in Republican hands, it would fit the narrative of the GOP being the “old, rich white guy’s party”.
Cruz blows up the narrative, and also explains why the Democrats both in Texas and nationally are trying to fast-track San Antonio Mayor Juan Castro into the spotlight, with his high-profile position at the DNC convention — if Cruz continues to make himself known to the public, he also reminds Hispanic voters in Texas (and elsewhere) that the Dems “OWRG” narrative is non-operative (at the same time, Cruz taking all the brickbats thrown by the left will, intentionally or not, lessen their ability to do the same to Marco Rubio. Getting the vapors over Ted not deferring to Chuck Schumer means they’ve lost some of the outrageous outrage they can direct at Marco, who ends up looking like the ‘responsible’ Latino Republican Senator, even if that’s not what the big media intends to do).
Cruz right now has the best voting record of any Republican in the Senate in 2013. He’s figured out *anything* that this Senate passes, controlled by Democrats and often aided by RINOs, is going to hurt freedom and liberty.
Why would you want to be on the wrong side of history, time and time again?
Cruz will go far. Very, very far.