POLITICO: “A pernicious nest of snakes”
The description has been applied to the Council on Foreign Relations by U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz. From POLITICO:
Ted Cruz, the former Texas solicitor general and tea party favorite for the Republican nomination for Senate, has been focusing some of his harshest campaign trail rhetoric on that longtime villain of those suspicious of U.S. internationalism: The Council on Foreign Relations.
The New York-based group, Cruz said at a speech to a Republican women’s group in Sugarland, Tex., last week, is “a pit of vipers.”
When asked about the Council at another event in Tyler, Tex., on Oct. 15 — Texas, home of Ron Paul and Alex Jones, is the sort of place this comes up a lot — Cruz called the organization “a pernicious nest of snakes” that is “working to undermine our sovereignty,” according to video provided by someone who opposes his candidacy.
What comes next in the article is absolutely amazing:
Well, Cruz should know: The candidate’s wife, Heidi S. Cruz, was an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations until this June.
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Why Cruz has aligned himself with the loonies in this race is beyond me. With all the serious problems the country is facing, why would he choose to focus on the Council of Foreign Relations? No one in politics has even thought about the CFR since the Cold War ended, except, apparently, people in Tyler and Sugarland and Mrs. Cruz.
Anonymous says:
The Council of Foreign Relations is just part of worldwide conspiracy that includes the Pope, Colonel Sanders, and the Free Masons.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
The Council on Foreign relations is often US intelligence dominated and yes sir, many prominent members of the CFR from George Herbert Walker Bush (CIA) to Henry Kissinger (de facto CIA) to Richard Helms (CIA) have had more than their fair share of conspiracies and dirty political dealings. Read my note on the CFR below.
Basically the CFR is the insider Republican/Democrat/CIA establishment. And they do a lot of pushing of “global socialism” at the behest of multinational corporations who want to run the world like they run their company.
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Anonymous Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Don’t forget the Illuminati, Bilderbergs, and the Trilateral Commission.
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WUSRPH Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
How could you leave out the Free Masons?
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Robert Morrow Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
There is huge overlap between Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. These are elite policy making groups that often blend corporate/government/academic/”intelligence”. They are both networking and policy making (suggesting) groups.
http://www.rense.com/general17/quote.htm
Here is David Rockefeller speaking at the Bilderberg conference in 1991. I think it sums up his and the international bankers’ attitude precisely:
David Rockefeller:
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.”
He went on to explain:
“It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
– David Rockefeller, Speaking at the June, 1991 Bilderberger meeting in Baden, Germany (a meeting also attended by then-Governor Bill Clinton and by Dan Quayle
Bill Clinton attended that meeting the year before he became president. David Rockefeller was very happy to have Hillary Clinton in the White House as well.
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ghostofann says:
You forgot to include Queen Elizabeth II in that worldwide conspiracy too.
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Pat Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I heard Lord Voldemart runs the CFR and that he plays golf with Obama.
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James Otis, Jr. says:
To answer your question, Cruz is focused on the CFR as a way to divert attention from the Fed
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or maybe he and Heidi are having a marital spat and this is his roundabout way of calling her a snake.
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Fake TC Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 11:26 am
Really looking forward to the weekend, gang.
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Red says:
Thanksgiving will be awkward at the Cruz household.
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Illuminati says:
Yes, we run the world and candidates like Ted Cruz are senseless minions who will never be part of the New World Order.
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Drazen Petrovic says:
This has not been the best week for Ted Cruz.
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Anonymous says:
I hope he gets the GOP nomination. We can finally have a Texas D back in the US Senate.
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Jacob says:
@Anon
Ted Cruz is a Texas D? Someone better inform National Review.
And Burka I don’t think he is “focusing” on it. People asked him questions, and he gave answers and opinions. It isn’t like he is running commercials on the subject or sending out mail about it.
It is interesting that he made this comments right after his wife served on the board however.
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AreYouKiddingMe says:
Just what we need, another Texas politician that starts spreading conspiracy theories, calls our President a socialist, and believes that he is the antichrist, here to give our country to the
A-Rabs… Then, when bin-Laden and Ghadafy are killed under his watch, there is something wrong with that, too. That crap is really getting old… No wonder decent people don’t run for office anymore. You right wing wackos are really pathetic… Why don’t you get all your guns, gallons of water and cans of sardines, and hide in your concrete storm cellars, for about the next ten years…
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AreYouKiddingMe says:
The fact that Cruz is a democrat does not change my statement. I he thinks like that, he is in the same camp as the others. I could care less about party.
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I. P. Shiner says:
The loonies are connecting dots, however… that the worlds largest corporations and banks are the key funders of the Council on Foreign Relations, and there is a current feeling among mainstream voters that there is a “disconnect” between the elites and the governed public.
Therefore, a candidate’s alliance with the Council on Foreign Relations would be a drag on any attempt to run as a champion of the middle-class, or tea party. Not sure if a conversation about the role of globalist groups like CFR is only for the loonies anymore.
Anyone care to discuss the EU’s wonderful record? That’s essentially the CFR’s agenda for the North American Union, a phrase featured in the title of the report issued by CFR, which Cruz’s wife co-wrote.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Folks read the entire post of I.P. Shiner above. The whole post. The European Union basketcase is EXACTLY the kind of plans the CFR has for the USA.
“That the worlds largest corporations and banks are the key funders of the Council on Foreign Relations, and there is a current feeling among mainstream voters that there is a “disconnect” between the elites and the governed public.”
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Conservative Texan says:
Do you get the feeling that the Cruzes are treating Texans like rubes as they plot their return to the rarified air of Washington? Tell the Texas bumpkins what they want to hear — and then return to their D.C./NYC elite home grounds and have a few laughs at expense of the great unwashed.
Cathie Adams really ought to check out Heidi’s co-authorship of a 2005 Council on Foreign Relations paper calling for moves towards a North American Union. Heidi’s co-authors include the infamous Robert Pastor, and a ranking La Raza official. One-worlders, not exactly Tea Party favorites. But wait — that report was only for DC/NYC consumption. Nobody reads CFR papers in rustic, backwater Texas, right? Well, they’re not supposed to.
It must be tough on the Cruzes as they have to suffer for a while longer down here in an intellectually low-rent area of the country.
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Sean Durkin says:
http://www.burntorangereport.com/upload/Burka%20Asleep.jpg
Paul showing how out of it he is again. Wake up Paul, Texas is passing you by.
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garyfan Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Paul — You’re going to have to get a better chair if you’re going to keep watching those Republican debates.
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Julie says:
Several presidents, including the last President Bush, have been keynote speakers at Council of Foreign Affair events. I can tell you that none of them suffered snake bites. The council has a long list of members, including officials from the Reagan’s administration and from both Bush administrations. Some of the members are Reagan`s chief of staff James Baker, Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, former NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark, and CBS newsman Bob Schieffer. These people aren`t radicals, Ted.
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Chickasawelder Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Elaine Chao also is the wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell
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Robert Morrow Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Lyndon Johnson’s administration was FILLED TO THE BRIM with members of the Council on Foreign Relations. JFK had CFR members, too. But the Rockefellers and the CFR, like the Texas oil men, hated John Kennedy.
CIA/CFR related members played integral roles in the murder of John Kennedy and the post assassination cover up. Kennedy’s own national security advisor McGeorge Bundy (friends with CIA/CFR Allen Dulles) almost certainly involved in the JFK assassination and definite the cover up.
Scroll down, here is a good link on the CFR:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/atlantean_conspiracy/atlantean_conspiracy13.htm
(Lots of good info in there.)
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Anonymous says:
Of course, they’re not radicals. They do, in fact, run the Western world, or at least try to. It’s anyone who points this out who is labeled as radical.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed–the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Brian Williams and Angelina Jolie are amoung the more “exemplary” members of the “Rockefeller Think Tank”. There I almost said that without laughing.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Angelina Jolie is window dressing and irrelevant. The US intelligence dominated inner core of the CFR is who you need to keep your eyes on. The CFR collectively is very powerful and critically important.
And the biggest, dirtiest non-secret of the Council on Foreign Relations is the participation of SOME its elite, inner circle members in the JFK assassination and cover up.
Any time you see someone telling outrageous lone nutter lies on TV about the 1963 Coup d’Etat; almost certainly it is a CFR flack, towing the party line. (cue the Emporer’s new clothes, that is their model.)
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
I thought it was LBJ and his oil buddies who killed JFK?
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Robert Morrow Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
LBJ and his oil buddies used their CIA/military connections to murder JFK. LBJ and Hoover covered up. CIA/CFR Allen Dulles and John J. McCoy and Gerald Ford handled the Warren Commission farce.
The CIA and the CFR are joined at the hip. US intelligence has traditionally been at the core leadership of the Council on Foreign Relations … not window dressing like Angelina Jolie or preacher Rick Warren.
Rockefeller man John J. McCloy, chairman of the CFR from 1953-1970, was a key player in the Warren Commission farce. Allen Dulles, the man who created and built the CIA, was the president of the CFR in 1949. His CFR secretary was McGeorge Bundy later became JFK’s National Security Advisor and THEN assumed huge amounts of power under Lyndon Johnson, practically telling LBJ what to do in all areas, not just national security.
LBJ used the CIA to murder JFK.
The CFR, infested with CIA in core positions, handled the cover up for the JFK assassination, the 1963 Coup d’Etat for 48 years.
WUSRPH says:
Be sure to watch the Cards win tonight…But let us hope it is more of a pitchers’ game (say 2 to 1) than the hitfest of last night…Good pitching is what makes baseball.
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Julie Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
WUSRPH, That must be a typo in your comment about who’s going to win tonight. It should read. “Be sure to watch the Rangers win tonight.”
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WUSRPH Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Come on…Face it…the Texans can not finish it when they have it on a platter…but the Birds know how to come back! By the way, have you noticed how that “used up” Bateman who the Half-Astros dumped because he was too old has been doing…Batting over 400 in the Series…Another bad trade among the many dozen over the years that have made the Half-A.. what they are. And, I’m a stros fan.
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Ausowl Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Lance BERKMAN (aka Big Puma, Fat Elvis) – from New Braunfels, Canyon High grad and proud Rice Owl. Hard to argue re the Astros.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berkmla01.shtml
I. P. Shiner says:
For legislators and their staffs who suffered the attacks in the Texas House speaker’s race, the current Cruz-CFR-goldman sachs flare up is sweet irony. Why? Because you can line up almost every corporate-funded “Atroturf conservative” kingmaker who led a phoneybalogney fight against Joe Straus and note that these groups also now all talk in favor of Cruz (and Perry for that matter).
What does that mean? The Council on Foreign Relations and Goldman Sachs are not exactly “tea party” traits… yet, Cruz is sold as the true conservative choice by some. Let me get it straight; Club for Growth, Eagle Forum, Empower Texans, Grassroots Tx, young conservatives of texas, the Tea Party Caucus and Dan Patrick crew, all of them have to try with a straight face to now explain that Cruz/Goldman Sachs/CFR is “conservative” and blessed by their corporate-approved “Tea Party” label.
Any true renegade tea partier would be alarmed at the CFR and Goldman Sachs ties to Cruz…yet this group prefers their eyes to be wide shut. And they were the same people to go after any average House member who dared to support Joe Straus. Which is it? They can’t have it both ways. Either Cruz is also a globalist lefty like Straus, or not.
Paging Debra Medina… please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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Robert Morrow says:
The reason the grassroots does not like the Council on Foreign Relations is because it personifies the big government bipartisan establishment. For many reasons the Rockefellers had huge, huge influence at the CFR and they used it to advance their business/ideological foreign policy goals.
The CFR is real (funny I should have to say that) and its members have had gargantuan influence in both Democratic and Republican administrations.
The CFR basically believes in unelected government by the elites and multi-national corporations.
The Council on Foreign Relations is infested with US intelligence and the CFR has been used for decades to advance the agenda of US intelligence (not always noble goals) and basically a multi-national corporate elite agenda.
I do not believe the CFR is the pit of evil or that every single member is involved in some sort of dark conspiracy. The CFR is also a networking organization for many folks who want to advance their career in government or the media.
But the inner circle of the CFR is often US intelligence dominated and definitely US the CFR to manipulate the media and advance government/corporate goals.
A special word about the Council on Relations role in the 1963 Coup d’Etat and cover up: no other organization has been more responsible for the murder and cover up of John Kennedy than the CFR. Elite CFR members such as Allen Dulles, Nelson Rockefeller, George Herbert Walker Bush and McGeorge Bundy were probably sponsors of the JFK assassination. Certainly leadership CFR members such as Allen Dulles, John J. McCloy, and Gerald Ford played the most critical roles in the Warren Commission farce. Add in cover up roles played by McGeorge Bundy (CFR/CIA), Nelson Rockefeller (CFR/CIA), Henry Kissinger (CFR/CIA), Richard Helms (CFR/CIA), William Colby (CFR/CIA), Nicholas Katzenbach (CFR), Jack Valenti (CFR), Bill Moyers (CFR), Henry Luce (CFR), Clair Boothe Luce (CFR), William Coleman (CFR) James Reston NY Times (CFR), Anthony Lewis NY Times (CFR), William F. Buckley (CFR/CIA), Walter Cronkite CBS (CFR), Dan Rather CBS (CFR), Bob Schieffer CBS (CFR), Peter Jennings ABC (CFR), Daniel Schorr (CFR), Arthur Ochs Sulzberger NY Times (CFR), Harrison Salisbury NY Times (CFR), Kenneth Gilmore Readers’ Digest (CFR), Tom Braden (CFR/CIA), Stephen Rosenfeld Washington Post (CFR), Bobbie Ray Inman (CFR/CIA), Arnold de Borchgrave (CFR), Donald Rumsfeld (CFR), Rupert Murdoch FOX (CFR), John McCain (CFR), Robert Gates CIA (CFR)… the list is almost endless. Note two things: 1) they are the key establishment players of BOTH major political parties spanning decades 2) their power and influence is directly proportional to the fantastic whoppers they tell about in the 1963 Coup d’Etat. For the older CFR members it is a case of PARTICIPATION and COVER UP in the JFK assassination. For the younger ones such as Bill Clinton (CFR), Douglas G. Brinkley (CFR), George Will (CFR/ABC), Charles Krauthammer (CFR/FOX), Bill Kristol (CFR/FOX), David Gergen (CFR), John Segenthaler (CFR), Frank Sesno (CFR), Evan Thomas (CFR), Michael Beschloss (CFR), Stephen M. Walt (CFR), George Stephanopolous (CFR/ABC), Jonathan Alter (CFR), Evan Thomas (CFR), Brian Williams (CFR/NBC), Daniel Pipes (CFR), Michael Gerson (CFR) it is a case of WILLFUL IGNORANCE as they still push the Big Lie. Note: Chris Matthews of Hardball, another willfully ignorant man, is close friends with Richard Haass, current president of CFR. I have never seen highly acclaimed political guru Michael Barone, a Bilderberger attendee, ever say anything credible on the JFK assassination.
Question: do we really expect the CFR to admit that some of its elite members slaughtered John Kennedy and many more played integral roles in the cover up? No, but it is important to highlight that the Council on Foreign Relations has stunk up the place with tremendous amounts of radioactive horse manure relating to the 1963 Coup d’Etat.
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WUSRPH says:
I assume the CFR was also right there on the Ides of March too?
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Robert Morrow Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
The murder of Caesar and the murder of JFK are the exact same concept. Both were killed by their governments and betrayed by people they had given positions of power.
From Wiki “Assassination of Julius Caesar”:
The assassination of Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy by approximately forty Roman senators who called themselves Liberators. Led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, they stabbed Julius Caesar to death in the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March (March 15) 44 BC.
Except that John Kennedy did not exclaim “Et tu, Brute” (“You too, Brutus?), rather he would have said “And you, too, LBJ, CIA, elements of military, Hoover (close to LBJ), Texas oil men HL Hunt, Clint Murchison, Sr., elements of mafia” because he knew damn well who his enemies were.
The CIA has operated as the military arm of the CFR for a very long time. And the CFR has operated as the propaganda wing of the CIA for a very long time. The two are joined at the hip with inner circle leadership Allen Dulles, John J. McCoy, GHW Bush, Richard Helms, William Colby, Henry Kissinger essentially being core CIA/CFR. Almost 2 sides of the same coin.
Arthur Krock wrote a spectacular article for the NY Times on Oct. 3rd, 1963 that foreshadowed the JFK Assasssination. “The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam.”
But what is so astounding about the column is that Krock quoted a high-level administration source as having suggested that if there were ever a coup d’etat in the United States, one might expect that it would be the CIA which was responsible-this just weeks before JFK was murdered.
Some people today don’t know just how much at odds JFK was with all the key players in his administration: Vice President sociopath Johnson, the CIA furious over Cuba & Vietnam policy, Hoover of the FBI, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Curtis LeMay etc. Basically, a sub rosa war was going on between JFK vs. LBJ and the CIA and Hoover.
The is an eye-opening article once you read it. It is amazing that it appeared in the national newspaper of record 7 weeks before the JFK assassination.
http://www.jfklancer.com/Krock.html
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Robert Morrow says:
Henry Kissinger, who built his early career as a close aide to Nelson Rockefeller, and who is very close to George Herbert Walker Bush is the white hot inner core of the CFR, CIA, Bilderberg, US foreign policy for decades.
Paul Burka wonders why the “loons” hate the Council on Foreign Relations …Here is a Kissinger quote to Bilderberg in 1992 around the time of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles:
“”Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.”
- Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.
(in an address to the Bilderberger organization meeting at Evian, France, on May 21, 1992. As transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. )”
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Gimme a Break says:
Uh, these attacks were clearly planted against Cruz because Dewhurst and Leppert are scared to death of him.
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Anonymous Reply:
October 29th, 2011 at 12:53 am
ih yeah…couldn’t be any truth to them right?????
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WUSRPH says:
The Birds in 7!
The Cardinals Win the World Series
And they did it the way it should be done—-with PITCHING
that shut the Rangers down and kept them down.
That’s Baseball the Way it is Supposed to Be!
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Robert Morrow Reply:
October 29th, 2011 at 1:17 am
Agreed. Go Cardinals!
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Mark R. Yzaguirre says:
Good article, Paul. I cite it in a piece that just went up at FrumForum. Have a nice day.
http://www.frumforum.com/why-cruz-pretends-to-believe-conspiracies
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Goo says:
I attended a Tea Party forum a while back, and while Cruz was speaking the woman in front of me leaned over to her husband and said, “I certainly won’t be voting for THAT career politician”. Facepalm.
Granted, I realize that woman’s not representative of the majority of Tea Party members in Texas (Cruz has been winning all their straw polls quite handily), but every time I hear that kind of rhetoric – usually from the “I’m a CONSERVATIVE, not a Republican” crowd – a little part of me dies inside. If Ted Cruz is a career politician, Dewhurst must be comparable to Barack Obama himself.
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