Ted Cruz extends olive branch to GOP senators

[brooklynite]

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Source: Politico

Extending an olive branch to GOP senators, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is privately making it clear he won’t engage in the Senate Conservatives Fund’s hardball tactics to defeat his colleagues in their primary races.

At a closed-door lunch meeting of Senate Republicans Wednesday, the freshman conservative told his colleagues that he would not intervene in their 2014 primary fights or fundraise for the controversial outside group. Cruz added that the SCF’s decision to try to defeat sitting GOP senators in their primaries was its alone, according to several people familiar with the session.

According to one source familiar with the meeting in the Senate’s Mansfield Room, Cruz noted that Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky wouldn’t fundraise for the group and promised that his image would be removed from its materials. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Cruz that Paul took such an action six months ago, but he thanked the Texas conservative for doing so. Other GOP senators also thanked Cruz, sources say.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/ted-cruz-republican-senators-99125.html

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The old softee...

[bluesbassman]

1. Somebody explained to him just how much it hurts to get kneecapped...

Not only an asshole, but a coward too. Useless waste of oxygen that one.

[Beacool]

2. It must have just dawned on him that he will need them in 2016 if he runs.

What an oily weasel!!!

[davidpdx]

13. That would require a brain

Something Cruz lacks. I have this feeling that of Cruz, Paul, and Rubio 2 of the 3 will lose in 2016.

[Beacool]

15. Don't underestimate Cruz.

He's very intelligent. What he is is an ideologue. I think that he does believe the nonsense he spews. It would be a mistake to underestimate him. He's not a dope like Bush and Palin.

[cosmicone]

3. Now he will be hated by all of them hahahahaha

The mainstream GOP will see it as a political move and won't trust him ... while the Tealiban will think he is a traitor. I want popcorn to watch this!

[sendero]

5. ^^^^

yeppers!

[Berlum]

4. "I'm sort of, maybe, gonna try to be less of an a-hole, maybe." - annoinTED One (R - Messy-anic)

[freshwest]

6. The language of the piece indicates Cruz is the boss of them, no? The man has a god complex or...

The GOP has defined their god as Mammon, so his wife and other sources of income must be speaking through their prophet.

The smile the man wears is nothing short of a cinematic insane villain. And the GOP virtually genuflect when this toad spews his meglomanical rhetoric, saying what he will or will not do, if they kiss his ass.

[MynameisBlarney]

7. Good find!

Just cross-posted this to a lively thread on Raw Story about our dear Mr. Cruz.

[Snake Plissken]

8. I bet they went retro on him by responding with

LOL @ this noob

[Rebellious Republican]

9. Stolen video of Ted Cruz undergoing retraining By GOP handlers...

Ted, we want you to roll over and play dead......

[irisblue]

10. Shame that the olive branch

was not used to as a switch

[Redford]

11. I think he sent a message that he would not lead the tea party advance against them

but the GOPers slated for possible primary challenges by tea party groups are on their own.

[kiranon]

12. Senators are fools if they fall for this one. Cruz is out to

bring them down and probably already has. IMHO.

[Arkana]

14. Guess he's finally realizing he has no friends.

[myrna minx]

16. And Cruz hopped on their backs as they carried him across the stream...

They're bigger fools if they trust him.