GOP UNDERCARD BATTLE RATCHETS UP …
|| By FITSNEWS || As the “Republican” presidential field continues to winnow – the wheat separating from the chaff – a GOP undercard battle is brewing between a pair of U.S. Senators with generally exemplary voting records on freedom and free market issues.
We’re referring to Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky – two candidates who have seen their otherwise compelling anti-establishment bona fides drowned out by the meteoric rise of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Trump’s rise has been especially damaging to Paul – who at one point was considered a top tier GOP contender. Now he’s clinging to second-tier status.
(In fact we wrote a column last week about Paul’s missed opportunity).
Earlier this week, Paul was rocked by the news that Purple PAC – one of the political action committees supporting his candidacy – had ceased its fundraising efforts on his behalf.
“I have stopped raising money for him until I see the campaign correct its problems,” the group’s co-founder told Politico. “I wasn’t going to raise money to spend on a futile crusade.”
Specifically, the co-founder – Ed Crane of the Cato Institute – said Paul had abandoned his libertarian base, which was the reason he was tanking in the polls.
“I want to grab Rand by the lapels and say, ‘What are you doing?’” Crane told reporter Alex Isenstadt. “I’m a big fan of Rand Paul. But whatever motivates his campaign, I don’t get it.”
Nor do we …
Additional bad news broke via a report in The Washington Examiner – which concluded that Cruz was making major inroads with Paul’s base of supporters.
Not surprisingly, the two candidates are increasingly at each other’s throats.
Earlier this week, for example, Paul said Cruz’s bad attitude was the reason the U.S. Senate didn’t give him a vote on defunding government subsidized abortion provider Planned Parenthood.
We supported Cruz in his efforts. Paul? Not so much.
“Ted has chosen to make this really personal and chosen to call people dishonest in leadership and call them names which really goes against the decorum and also against the rules of the Senate, and as a consequence he can’t get anything done legislatively,” Paul told Fox News this week. “He is pretty much done for and stifled and it’s really because of personal relationships, or lack of personal relationships, and it is a problem. I approach things a little different, I am still just as hardcore in saying what we are doing , I just chose not to call people liars on the Senate floor and it’s just a matter of different perspectives on how best to get to the end result.”
Ouch …
Cruz has previously called out Paul for his lack of support during the 2013 fight over funding for Obamacare.
“I marveled that Rand had decided not to be with us in this fight,” Cruz wrote in his book, accusing Paul of working to “deliberately undermine” conservative efforts to defund the controversial measure.
Which of these undercard candidates do we support? Time will tell. We’re obviously impressed with Paul’s tax proposals, but Cruz has clearly been the more consistent pro-freedom, pro-free market candidate during the 2016 election.
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This is the classic nut shell game ! Where’s the nut ?
Look in the mirror CLOWN!
Democracy is your nightmare. AHH, toast is now due.
What a loser u are ! LMAO !!!
Let these goobers eat each other alive.
Where’s Trump? He’s funny.
Probably watching Putin kick Obama and ISIS ass today in Syria!
Putin is LHAO at people like you. So am I ! So Putin is your man ? You are not American. Why do you want to live in a democarcy?
Put the bottle down failed Marine.Democracy? Many Communist, Socialist or Totalitarian governments on this planet use the word ‘Democratic’ in their title? You are a socialist and your candidate Bernie Sanders is a DEMOCRATIC socialist.
Us TRUE Americans understand that we live in a Constitutional Republic with a ‘representative’ form of government.
You need a marine to show ya, huh.
Democracy that word fucks your head. LMAO
He’s probably getting a spray tan, or starting a Twitter war.
Either is polling higher than Hillary…You gotta like it when any R slaps the shit out of ignorant Fucks, like You LMAO…
I see the unemployed loser, who blames his failure of a life on Obama is still going on and on.
Using my handle today, I see?
What has Obama done to you today, impotent goof?
Rand Paul has totally exposed himself as a liberal suck-up, sycophant and typical Liberal-Tarian. Cruz is Exactly what, and who, he says he is.
Rand is like FITSNews…Cruz is honest, courageous and noble.
And totally stupid LMAO
Cruz makes em crazy cause he tells the truth.
Cruz will never hold power in the Senate as long as Mitch McConnell is Republican leader, so he might as well run for POTUS.
Good idea dumb ass.In fact he is. Just out of a coma?
When Cruz (son of an illegal alien, and not eligible for POTUS per the birthers) slithers on his belly back to the US Senate after his Presidential campaign ends, is a pariah, and anything he attempts to advance, whether for his case or for Texas, is DOA.
Spot it : ON
Obama regime and Black Lives Matter got em another police officer today:
A 32-year-old Forest Acres police officer was remembered as an outstanding officer and role model after he was shot and killed by a suspect at the Richland Mall Wednesday.
Forest Acres Police Chief Gene Sealy said officer Greg Alia was a graduate of Richland Northeast High School as well as the University of South Carolina.
Alia was a seven-year veteran of the Forest Acres Police Department, Sealy said, and just recently had a baby with his wife, Kassy. Alia’s parents are also residents of Forest Acres.
“What a tragic day here in Forest Acres,” Sealy said. “Our hearts are broken. Forest Acres is a small community, a small police department. We’re one big family.”
Sealy said 34-year-old Jarvis Hall, of Eastover, has been taken into custody in connection with the shooting.
Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/state/south-carolina/article37080780.html#storylink=cpy
Old news. Trey clears Hillary.
Come on loser !!!!
Wait! Was the cop black and was the killer white? If so, turn on the TV bc Obama’s going to hold a press conference.
If that’s not the case, then never mind, Obama doesn’t care.
Turn it on anyway. Dubya did it every night when our best were killed for nothing.
In your sic mind ALL of those that serve are failures ya American hating fool.
Hero’s in ya stupid game of death. Try again loser !
Obama is busy.He invited the Radical Muslim kid to the wH that was used to build that clock that looked like a bomb so the Muslim community could terrorize white folks.
RIP Officer Alia.
Yes sir.
There is a Hurricane forming off the coast. Is Obama to blame for that to?
The Neocons got what, ~4500 American servicemen killed in Iraq over their lies?
If the Kenyan fraud occupying the people’s house was able to ‘slither’ on his race into the wH…ANYBODY can run for President.
U right, anyone but you
Who can it be ? ” A Tango like person ” LMAOOAO !!!!!!!
Meanwhile..Obama has succeeded again…another Cop has been shot down dead. This one in Forest Acres….
Why did FITSNews shit all over himself to bring down the flag…but this ignorant and hateful FUCK is silent as the evil that he sucks off, is prevalent?
You are the one shooting cops. U should be investiagated. SLED is why u live here. Deo is comming for you.
Always running from WHO, and WHAT you are when it manifests.
Lay off the sauce. You’ve been drunk since noon.
Thank God you are okay.GT sure lives in your mind.You need help.
Since first thing this morning…as usual.
Keep the heat on em.Somebody in a ‘squrriel’ suit and dirty diaper was spotted in high heels walking the Ravenel Bridge shouting ‘WHERE IS THE GRAND TANGO’! Lock your doors! :)
If SLED were a law organization he would be captured, LMAO !!!!!
We are busiest at 5. You should turn yourself in.
A new USA Today/Suffolk poll finds Donald Trump leading the GOP presidential field with 23%, followed by Ben Carson at 13%, Carly Fiorina at 13%, Marco Rubio at 9%, Jeb Bush at 8% and Ted Cruz at 6%.
John Kasich, Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee had 2% each, and Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham and Chris Christie had 1% each.
Why Are we still talking about Rand Paul?
A show. Nothing else.
Rand Paul wants to let Iran have $150 Billion to build a Nuclear Bomb…
But he hates the Republican Party because we don’t want radical Jihadists to kill millions of innocent people.
It’s their money. LMAO !
Stupid is your name !!!!
Dumb ass.
If Ed Crane is so concerned about Rand abandoning his Libertarian base, why does it not bother him that Rand is running as a Republican?
When these Libertarians grow the balls to run as Libertarians, rather than bait and switch on ignorant Republicans, they might be worthy of respect.
Well you’re so concerned with C-Street and The Fellowship, you must be the same just in the opposite clothing.
Nitrat – Anti-Christ sociopath
Does Cruz remind anyone else of Count Dracula?
I was thinking more along the lines of a “youthful” Grandpa from The Munsters, but I do get your point!
I can easily see your view now too. I’m truly laughing.
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