Ted Cruz -- A right wing whackjob and proud of it.

[marmar]

Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) continued to relish his position as a tea party favorite last week, going out of his way to claim that the actions he's taken to bolster his conservative credentials have made him unpopular with some Republican colleagues.

Making a surprise appearance at the FreedomWorks Texas Summit on Friday, Cruz spoke about the backlash that he, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) have faced for leading a failed effort to filibuster any gun control measure to prevent such legislation from being debated on the floor. Cruz boasted about the eventual failure of a range of gun control measures -- including a popular bipartisan amendment to expand background checks -- recalling the "look of shock" on senior Democrats' faces. He then made a claim about the broader divisiveness of gun control.

"I dunno that there is an issue that has generated more heat internally in the Republican conference," Cruz said. "We've had probably five or six lunches with a bunch of Republican senators standing up and looking at Rand and Mike and me and yelling at us at the top of their lungs, I mean really upset. They said, 'Look, why did you do this? As a result of what you did, when I go home my constituents are yelling at me that I have to stand on principle.'" .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/ted-cruz-gop-senators_n_3178206.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037

[spanone]

1. scary, highly educated nutcase...harvard

Cruz then attended the Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995.[19][20] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[13] As a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”[21]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

[ZRT2209]

2. Carnival Cruz

[rustydog]

3. Following in Lady Blah Blah's footsteps I see

Carnival Cruz will see it rewards him about as well as it rewarded Wailin' Palin.

[Blue Owl]

4. TP Cruzer

He's like a piece of soiled toilet paper stuck to the bottom of a shoe.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. How Popular is this guy now in Texas?

I know he is there for 6 years, but can he get reelected?

[malokvale77]

6. It was a close race...

and he did not get the hispanic vote. They saw through him.