Said about Ted Cruz: He sees himself as the only truly pure Republican.

[cynatnite]

Washington (CNN) - Sen. Ted Cruz got a lot of pushback from Republican colleagues during a closed-door meeting questioning his relentless effort to tie government funding to derailing Obamacare.

"Cruz was completely unapologetic about the ads that he is featured in on the Senate Conservatives Fund website that attack other Republicans. He sees himself as the only truly pure Republican. His colleagues are furious. He has no successful strategy but has managed to generate grass roots support for his position," one senior Republican source at Wednesday's meeting told CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger.

Cruz has urged Republicans in the House to stand firm and continue pushing any plan to fund the government to proposals aimed at curtailing the Affordable Care Act.

This summer, he appeared in ads produced by the Senate Conservatives Fund urging Republicans to push Congress to defund Obamacare.

This strategy has upset Senate Republicans and some House GOP members because some privately blame the freshman Texas lawmaker for causing the shutdown and boxing House Speaker John Boehner into a corner.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/03/ted-cruz-gets-pushback-during-closed-door-meeting/

This was doomed to fail from day one.

[louis-t]

1. He thinks this will get him nominated for POTUS in '16!

[dgibby]

2. Engendering grass roots support for himself IS his strategy and

unfortunately for the rest of us, it is a very successful one. Cruz reminds me of a charismatic snake charmer/cult leader, and he exhibits all the characteristics of a sociopath/malignant personality disorder. That makes him quite possibly THE most dangerous person in this country. I do hope his Party decides to neuter him and soon.

[winter is coming]

3. It can be said, but I doubt it's true. To me, he comes across as someone who doesn't

give a shit about being a "pure" anything, as long as he's on top of the heap. This purity thing is his vehicle to power, nothing more.

[Siwsan]

4. I suspect Rafael suffers from more than a touch of narcissim

[Yupy]

5. Pure Republican with 2 Nationalities? Cuban Canadian Texas Repug wanna be!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. What would be scarier?

A) He's wrong

B) He's right

[warrior1]

7. I see him as

100 percent whinny asshole

[libdem4life]

8. Third Party split ... I think it's how the Two Party System is set up which pretty much retains a

Centrist political position. Kind of like The Curve in grading...varies as to the extent of the ends of the fulcrum. The demise of the Republican Tea Party will likely revive and energize the Left Liberal Democrats and vary The Center a bit left of where it is now.

The timing is good for 2016...not that we'll get a Liberal, but whoever is nominated/elected reading the tea leaves will have the room to edge left...hopefully.

[tavernier]

9. Perhaps he is.

I don't make a habit of dissecting republicker stool samples to see which is purer. They all smell the same.