koshergrl
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"Henry Adams said that politics is the systematic organization of hatreds. For the left, over the past year it has seemed at times to be the systematic organization of hatred of Ted Cruz.
" It’s not so much that they consider him a traitor to his race, as they do most conservatives who are black or Latino, as to his ruling-class pedigree."
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=EEFAB33E-63B9-4851-8EFB-934D8BD52206
"A national debate champion educated by Princeton and Harvard Law — and leading the charge against ObamaCare. He’s the John Walker Lindh of the Ivy League":
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"How to explain Ted Cruz, then? In two ways.
"One: Liberal messaging on conservatives is that they’re necessarily stupid, crazy, or evil. If you can’t get Cruz on either of the first two counts, you’re naturally going to lean heavily on the third. Simple as that.
"Two: Deny that he’s as much of a true believer as he seems, despite anecdotes from his college classmates about how strongly conservative he was even in his Princeton days, and dismiss him as a panderer. Lowry himself notes an example of that from Dana Milbank, basically accusing Cruz of being a secret moderate who’s only pretending to be a tea partier because that’s his path to a higher profile within the party.
"He’s an Ivy Leaguer after all — deeply ambitious, supposedly to the point of lying about his beliefs to further his career. That’s going to be the liberal CW on him as we get closer to 2016, I think, because it serves their agenda twice over. It casts Cruz as an especially ruthless pol, potentially willing to say or do anything to get the dreaded hoi polloi to help him grasp power, and — to bring this back around to the identity politics point — it frames him as fundamentally inauthentic. If they’re not going to call him a fake Latino because of his conservatism, they can call him a fake conservative because of his education. He simply can’t be who he says he is. He just can’t be."
Ted Cruz, a traitor to his class « Hot Air
" It’s not so much that they consider him a traitor to his race, as they do most conservatives who are black or Latino, as to his ruling-class pedigree."
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=EEFAB33E-63B9-4851-8EFB-934D8BD52206
"A national debate champion educated by Princeton and Harvard Law — and leading the charge against ObamaCare. He’s the John Walker Lindh of the Ivy League":
.....
"How to explain Ted Cruz, then? In two ways.
"One: Liberal messaging on conservatives is that they’re necessarily stupid, crazy, or evil. If you can’t get Cruz on either of the first two counts, you’re naturally going to lean heavily on the third. Simple as that.
"Two: Deny that he’s as much of a true believer as he seems, despite anecdotes from his college classmates about how strongly conservative he was even in his Princeton days, and dismiss him as a panderer. Lowry himself notes an example of that from Dana Milbank, basically accusing Cruz of being a secret moderate who’s only pretending to be a tea partier because that’s his path to a higher profile within the party.
"He’s an Ivy Leaguer after all — deeply ambitious, supposedly to the point of lying about his beliefs to further his career. That’s going to be the liberal CW on him as we get closer to 2016, I think, because it serves their agenda twice over. It casts Cruz as an especially ruthless pol, potentially willing to say or do anything to get the dreaded hoi polloi to help him grasp power, and — to bring this back around to the identity politics point — it frames him as fundamentally inauthentic. If they’re not going to call him a fake Latino because of his conservatism, they can call him a fake conservative because of his education. He simply can’t be who he says he is. He just can’t be."
Ted Cruz, a traitor to his class « Hot Air
