Discussion: Megyn Kelly To Cruz: You Can't Just Be Someone 'Who Stops Things' (VIDEO)

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Oh please oh please oh please let Ted Cruz be the GOP nominee!

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Megyn Kelly needs to find out who or what she is trying to be.

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Cruz said Obama was a “backbencher” in the Senate.

“He did not lead on any issues of real significance,” Cruz said. “Nobody could accuse me of being a backbencher.”

If by “backbencher” Cruz means someone who wasn’t an overtly-arrogant loud-mouth, then no. But working on the Senate committee that made more certain that the former Soviet Union’s “loose nukes” were secure, which then-Senator Obama did . . . that seems to me like an issue of real significance, even if it didn’t put him in front of television cameras.

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Funny that the backbencher made it into the White House twice, but this creature will only get there with an invite.

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‘Nobody can accuse me of being a back bencher.’

No Ted; they will more accurately accuse you of being a mendacious, arrogant, self serving, willfully ignorant, petty, puerile and wholly devious shriveled prick.

This dumbass has no more chance of becoming President than he has of becoming sentient.

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“Cruz then boasted that he “had more legislation pass the Senate than all but a handful of Republicans” over the past two years.”

Considering that the GOP just took over the Senate, and generally speaking the GOP hasn’t passed jack, that’s a pretty low bar.

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‘Welcome to the GOP; the future is a low, low bar.’

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Not a chance. He is going to leap with both feet into the wood chipper of GOP primaries.

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One can only hope…

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Thanks, Miss Kelly (for the execution, at least; something like this has to come from Roger Ailes). You’ve taken over on-screen leadership from BillIO as he heads out towards the fjord, fires blazing in both bows.

Senator Franken has talked a lot on the ‘expected’ profile of and role for those newly elected to and in their first term in the Senate. Franken had embodied that model. Senator Elizabeth Warren has certainly stretched it, but in large part because Senator Obama did before her. His ‘leadership’ on certain issues was disappointing to progressives - in particular, his cave on the protections extended to telcos/ISPs for ‘co-operating’ with the national communication dragnet, and it’s very Chou En Lai [supposedly] on the French Revolution (“too early to tell”) on the TARP - but he showed leadership in both.

OTOH new Senator Cruz was noisy as a crazed cricket and picked an issue (ONE issue; the rest of the issues were fake-outs and pure pander), that was NOT in any sort of crisis, and then he Ted Cruz proceeded to single-handedly turn it into one. He put things at risk needlessly, to no end that made sense to anyone except the koolaid drinkers, and, starting with the GOP Congressional Caucus, it was dismissed as self-aggrandizement.

His current candidacy floundered from before Monday’s announcement because neither his stunts nor his personality have broad support in either the public or the GOP Congressional Caucus. But the problem for the latter at least, and for the RNC and much of the traditional ownership pf the GOP, was how to dismiss Cruz’s leadership candidacy when such a large percent of the Base supports his extremist articulation as the sort of pandering they only seem to get at CPAC, in town hall type constituency meetings, and in staged political events like fillibusters.

Megyn Kelly has solved that problem: Cruz is now the Guy Who Stops Things.

So now GOPers in Fox and in Congress and in various sectors of the Base who don’t care for Cruz can unite behind that phrase for why Cruz cannot be taken seriously for president - due to the sort of label that can only be overcome in the GOP by going back into the Senate and ‘doing something’ [impossible for an R senator going back in history past two world wars at least] or returning home to run one’s own state as governor for a term plus one more election to disprove fluke (Reagan, Dubya, Good Hair, Jebya, Kochy Walker, NJ Fats, Kasich, Jindal, Mike the Mechanized Moron Pence, etc.).

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Dis she ask him about signing up for Obamacare?

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‘Nobody can accuse me of being a back bencher.’

OK, how about ankle-biter? Drama queen? Putz?

Wait, don’t tell me!

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She’s trying to have it both ways: another Roger Ailes propagandist, but also someone who could possibly have a career post-/outside Fox.

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I wish she had asked him to name them. I’m not aware of any bill he has “passed,” or even sponsored that got passed. Is anyone?

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There it is. The ARROGANCE that EVERYONE who knows him talks about.
This guy is a clinical Sociopath with all the trimmings: Narcissicsm, Arrogance, Dismissive of others, no Empathy of any kind, Megalomania, everything.
He is a walking TEXTBOOK Definition of a Sociopath.
No wonder some Oligarch’s just LOVE HIM. It’s because he is just like them.

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Go to the OED and look up “megalomaniac” and after the definition it will say “as in Ted Cruz.”

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I’m not sure I’d agree with your take on Obama’s involvement with TARP. True, as a Senator he did not have a major role, as that legislation was somewhat pre-packaged and rushed through in the midst of a crisis.

However, as President, he initiated stress tests for the major banks and initiated banking reform under which banks must meet higher reserve ratios, hold higher levels of capital, make out living wills in the event of their failure, and the Volcker Rule limits propriety trading by banks.

Also, under Dodd-Frank, the federal government now has the authority to seize a failing bank if its failure poses a threat to the broader economy, and force a resolution and, if necessary a winding down that does not involve expense to taxpayers.

And the hated Too Big To Fail banks and financial institutions – which now also include non-bank Met Life – that have been named systemically important now face greater scrutiny and as a result may consider shedding divisions to avoid additional regulatory burdens.

And a consumer financial protection bureau roots out fraud and abuse.

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I guess it could get worse for Cruz—his wife and kids could refuse to endorse him, saying they’d prefer the primary process play out and don’t think their involvement would be constructive at this point—but it does seem obvious that everyone who matters in the GOP a) hates him and b) thinks he would be a disastrous candidate. All that remains is for some true friend of his, assuming he has a friend, to assure him he’s just too awesome for this benighted world and he shouldn’t waste his awesomeness on such awful people. He’s not going to understand the reality of it on his own.

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And if Ted Cruz becomes president, I am gone. I will NOT live in a country with a [quote=“Jrfunkenstein, post:6, topic:18374”]
mendacious, arrogant, self serving, willfully ignorant, petty, puerile and wholly devious shriveled prick[/quote] as President.

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