Ted Cruz’s Filibuster Could Cost Him Millions

[Tx4obama]

Ted Cruz’s Filibuster Could Cost Him Millions

The people who give big money to the Republican Party aren’t falling in line with Ted Cruz and are, in fact, embarrassed by him. That’s not going to help him raise the kind of money he’ll need to satisfy his political ambitions.

According to several Republican sources, most of whom declined to disparage a rising star on the record, the party’s donor class is rolling its eyes at Cruz’s last-minute, long-shot attempt to keep the controversial health care law from fully going into effect — dismissing it as unintelligible parliamentary trickery at best, and counterproductive self-promotion at worst.

Cruz, who most Republicans believe is positioning himself for a 2016 presidential run, will need the support of at least a portion of the party’s moneyed donors to stay competitive in a primary. But skeptics say he’s running the risk of being seen as unserious by the same people he will need to write him checks in a couple of years.

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Full post here: http://www.alan.com/2013/09/25/ted-cruzs-filibuster-could-cost-him-millions/

p.s. Excerpt above is from Alan Colmes' website.

[Half-Century Man]

1. Hopefully he used green eggs and ham

to wedge his scrotum firmly in a political bear trap.

[gopiscrap]

2. Good, stupid fucker, I hope he goes down in flames

[UCmeNdc]

3. What the heck is he doing?

A. Making a fool out of himself?

B. Loves to hear his own voice?

C. Screwing over fellow Republicans?

D. He has no idea where he is going with this, but must uphold a stiff chin.

E. all of the above.

[Frustratedlady]

4. I was only able to see clips, but my first impression was...

Cruz is going to crack before his political "career" is over. I realize some of those clips were probably taken out of context, but even giving him a wide berth, none of it made sense. Of course, the other side of the equation is that I have never been able to tolerate him, so he didn't have to screw up too much for me to feel he was on his way down.

What would these clowns do if there had never been a Hitler?

[DFW]

5. The only thing that amazes me

...is that the "party's moneyed donors" would have considered him as serious presidential material in the first place.

You'd think that after their gazillionaires pumped tens of millions into unserious candidates in 2012 (Newt Gingrich? HERMAN CAIN fer cryin' out loud?), they'd be tired--or at the very least a little wary--of tossing similar sums at unserious candidates again four years later.

The only rational explanation I can come up with is that the less competent their "president" is, the better they can control him (e.g. G.W. Bush). To hell with the country, they can always move to Dubai afterward.

[davidpdx]

6. Texas can't turn blue quick enough

2016 if he doesn't run for president hopefully someone will unseat him.