His poll numbers sinking, Cruz ramps up rhetoric

[spanone]

Republican Senator Ted Cruz showed no signs of backing down from his hard-line stances Friday despite new NBC News/Wall Street Journal polling numbers showing his party receiving broad public blame for the ongoing government shutdown and high negative ratings for him personally.

The Texas senator endured numerous hecklers and interruptions during a speech to social conservatives, speaking over immigration reform activists and delivering a hard-charging speech against President Barack Obama.

Cruz refused to soften his harsh criticisms of Obamacare and the president, suggesting that no less than the very fate of the United States is on the line in the next few years.
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"We have a couple of years to turn this country around or else we go off the cliff to oblivion," he told conservative activists at Friday's Values Voters Summit in Washington.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/11/20921171-his-poll-numbers-sinking-cruz-ramps-up-rhetoric?lite

[Thinkingabout]

1. Maybe he does not realize he can go negative. He is hell bent on becoming the first

Dictator of the US. The other members of Congress should completely ignore him.

[roamer65]

4. Dictator of Texas, maybe.

Dictator of the US, definitely not. There won't be a unified country to rule at that point.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. Cruz: "my crazy goes all the way up to 11"

It's like a mockumentary about how a tinhorn from Texas can turn the entire nation against his orthodoxy in less than a year.

[BlueSpot]

3. "We have a couple of years to turn this country around or else we go off the cliff to oblivion."

Notice he didn't say the country goes off the cliff. The first "we" in the sentence appears to refer to the group he was speaking to when he said it. Why would the second "we" mean something different?

Freudian slip?

[Volaris]

9. I was thinking more along the lines of he has just a few DAYS left,

before his party faces electoral oblivion. Default on the debt, loons, and watch what happens. After a single month of people not getting their Soc Sec checks, the Tea Party will damn-well GET the "revolution" they have been asking for.

And also, I take back everything I said about Cruz. He's NOT engaging in a type of "being smart enough to play stupid" to appeal to the Base. Hes a genuine, Grade-A wack-job. He really is a Dominion-ist lunatic.

Sorry it took so long heh.

[sammytko]

11. I think SS checks go out every Wednesday, so the 16th might be the last set

We shall see.....

[gopiscrap]

5. that fucker's beyond crazy

[TeamPooka]

6. Canadian. Sorry I don"t mean to insult Cannadians but...facts are facts. :)

[srican69]

13. so??

[AceWheeler]

7. Joseph McCarthy

He's been reincarnated...

[Cha]

8. Thank you, spanone!

We're all waiting for the final backfire of the cruz missle.

[spanone]

10. what's his endgame? he's one scary dude.

[Cha]

15. My guess is totoal surrender to the narcisscistic "god"/ted cruz by

all of America.

[B Calm]

12. Where did Texas find this idiot?

[cali]

14. and he's supposed to be so smart. I'm actually a little sad

that he's effectively tanked his 2016 prospects.