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Carville: 'Ted Cruz Is the Most Talented, Fearless Republican Politician I’ve Seen in 30 Years'

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by bobmarley, May 6, 2013.

  1. justtxyank

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    I never mentioned anything about the fillibuster. Reid and Feinstein had issues with him because he doesn't do the normal Senate procedure during hearings. I don't mean the RULES of the Senate, I mean the traditional take your few minutes to grandstand, let the person give you a non answer and then yield your time. Senate hearings are usually a joke and Feinstein was VERY unhappy that Cruz pushed her on issues.

    If you have a problem with his CONTENT that's fine, but to have a problem with the fact that you get challenged on the Senate floor is pathetic.
     
  2. Commodore

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  3. ROXRAN

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    His encounters with Feinstein on youtube is awesome...she shrieks and keeps trying to remind him how old, senile and ancient she is while not making any sense to his debate points..,he has cerebrally cut up political heavyweights such as Hagel too easily in face to face engagements. . . Admirable.
     
  4. Baba Booey

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    Yeah...especially since the argument he was making made so much sense...

    :rolleyes:
     
  5. ROXRAN

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    Absolutely he made sense. Now if the liberal idiot clown leaders would respond to his three specific questions then they may,...may make some minuscule of sense...
     
  6. Deckard

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    Ted Cruz is a smart, committed loon. He's a very good populist speaker. In my opinion, Cruz has the potential to be a very dangerous person. Dangerous for the country. I hope he has reached his moment of the Peter Principal, rising beyond his ability to keep secret the fact that he's crazy. You can be smart and be crazy, and that's Ted Cruz.
     
  7. FranchiseBlade

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    Funny how the entire nation understood what Cruz was doing when he mentioned Saudi Arabia, and N. Korea, but you who are apparently a big follower of us, failed to understand the inference.
     
  8. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Absolutely right. What bobbymar doesn't seem to understand, due to him being so far from moderate himself, is that Cruz's positions fall on the extreme right end of the political spectrum and no debates, ambushes, quips, or speeches are going to move the country as a whole far enough to the right for Cruz to matter in a national race. Progressives welcome Teddy Cruz to have the Republican nomination because nobody that far right could hide that baggage long enough to fool the majority of the country.
     
  9. Baba Booey

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    Asking a question, and then spending the next two minutes framing what the answer should be before giving a chance for an answer is the epitome of the smarmy lawyer stereotype.
     
  10. Commodore

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    Obama had the most liberal voting record in the Senate and won nationally
     
  11. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    He was given the most liberal rating by some survey in a year he missed a bunch of votes while he was campaigning but at least you're right about the he won nationally thing. It's amazing how much you guys have to be fact checked for your half truths and fiction.

    It should kind of concern you that a left wing crazy liberal Muslim from Kenya drop kicked your last two nominees. Wait until the Dems run a real American... that could get ugly.
     
  12. bobmarley

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    Well done Mr. Senator

    Dangerous? Why? Because you disagree with his policy? Care to share why?

    Did I understand he was trying to make a point? Yes, I did. Did the entire nation also understand that? Yes, they did. But, some sensitive legislators decided they didn't like how he said it. Grow up. This is a grown up world and real questions are needing to be answered, not crying every time a grown up asks you a question.

    I could care less if the nation at large would elect him. I have said numerous times in this thread that I prefer to see him stay in the Senate, and one day have him added to the Supreme Court.

    I think you prefer to see him run for president to get him out your hair in the Senate. I hope he stays because he is already making the left look foolish.
     
  13. bigtexxx

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    EPIC dismantling of Harry Reid. One of the best speeches I've seen in years.

    He shined the light on the democrats slimy backroom dealings and political stunts -- bravo.
     
  14. FranchiseBlade

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    McCarthy had a point he was trying to make too. He just asked some questions, right?

    You don't get that unsubstantiated questions raised in public for the purpose of slandering someone isn't right or particularly American. Maybe one day you will.

    meanwhile, I'll try and grow up. LOL!
     
  15. FranchiseBlade

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    You do understand that the most liberal voting record thing is total BS right? It's given each year to the Democratic candidate if they came from congress. Kerry won it the year he ran. Or maybe he only came in second.

    Either way Bernie Sanders is far more liberal than Obama and was there at the same time. Obama was not more liberal than a person who is an open socialist.
     
  16. bobmarley

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    McCarthy said he had a secret list of spies in the US gov't.

    Cruz is asking where someone's money came from during a confirmation hearing.

    Nice try though.

    I was asking the Senators to grow up not asking you, but if you really felt that was for you, then maybe you needed the encouragement.

    Also, if he would have been transparent from the beginning, then a question would have never needed to be asked.
     
  17. CrazyDave

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    He brings up something that no one brought up, demands attention and answers for it, and then thanks him for his candor exemplified by his not saying anything about it.

    I'm not saying they would or wouldn't do what he's saying, but that whole thing was very GlenBeck-esque.

    Dude's clever, I'll give him that, but this kind of jacking around for attention is nothing new.
     
  18. bobmarley

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    The day before, after Reid called him a schoolyard bully he stood up and said the reason he is not allowing the conference was for this very reason that he stated yesterday. Not much of the media covered what Cruz had to say after. Can you blame them? He is dismantling the Demo majority almost single handedly.

    He even gave Reid the opportunity to just say he wouldn't do it and he would allow them to conference and Reid wouldn't do it. Reid knows that is exactly what he wants to do is get behind closed door and increase the debt ceiling without letting the minority say anything at all.
     
  19. thadeus

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    You are an ideologue and your ideology destroys your ability to make rational and practical observations of the world.
     
  20. Dairy Ashford

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    Peter Principle was a joke, zealots with good timing are very real; I don't know if ayatollah that before.
     
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