Ted's "it all depends what 'is' is" moment

Ted - y'all wounded me!  Ya seriously did!  What happens to your righteous dude creds, now that you've backed away from your take down of Cecil Turtle Mitch McConnell?  And in such D.C.-infused words - -  

When asked by host Howie Carr whether or not he believes that the speech was an attack on a fellow Republican, Cruz said he would never “throw rocks” at a member of his own party. Ronald Reagan famously refrained from attacking fellow GOP-ers, dubbing this policy his “eleventh commandment.” Cruz has cited Reagan’s dictum in the past.

“What I said about McConnell wasn’t attacking him personally,” explained Cruz, who later refused to condemn any of Donald Trump’s comments on the campaign trail.

Seriously?  You can read over the transcript of your speech where you basically mopped the Senate floor with the Leader & say with a straight face that you weren't attacking him personally, that you would never throw rocks at a member of the GOP?  

Ted, I hardly know ye!  That statement is right up there with "it all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is" for flat-out flim flammery!
 

But perhaps I speak too soon.  Yes, he grovelled in a most un-Teddish fashion, but I a refortified, tried & true red white & blue Ted rising from Sunday's ashes, as witnessed in this closing snipped from The Atlantic:


But those failures may be precisely what he needed to revive his presidential bid. Whereas on Friday he was attacking McConnell, by Sunday afternoon he was attacking the entire "Washington Cartel" —recasting a handful of bland, cautious senators in their 60s and 70s as, perhaps, a band of brazen, drug-dealing warlords. Cruz is trying to persuade voters that he’s just the man to take on Washington’s political establishment, and on Sunday, a parade of senators professing their grave disappointment inadvertently bolstered his cause.

Yeah, baby - that's the Ted I've come to expect.  The person who can take what traditional D.C. would view as an ignominious defeat & flip it to actually burnish his "I hate Washington" creds.  Did his Senate colleagues bolster his cause & revitalize his presidential hopes with their Sunday pillorying?  You betcha! 


UPDATE 07/28/15  4:35 p.m.
Ted comes through! 
About two hundred people gathered around the junior senator from Texas Tuesday as he shouted to his fans on the lawn, “I call upon the United States Congress right now to stand up and lead and to defund Planned Parenthood.”

He was met with the crowd’s enthusiastic chants of “Defund!” and more than one, “Thank you for your leadership.”

Sen. Ted Cruz was one of the last speakers in a pro-life rally in front of the United States Capitol, which started with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and ended with Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson. 

Videos of Planned Parenthood employees talking about selling fetal organs and tissue to researchers surfaced last week, sparking national outrage and a Republican effort to defund the organization. 

Ted Cruz, never one to let an inconvenient truth - the reality that the video he showed was edited to outrage rather than inform - hit the notes I'd expected.  


Mr. Cruz called out the Senate for foiling his plan to defund Planned Parenthood, an effort he said was led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Mr. Cruz accused Mr. McConnell of working with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid to work against Republican values, an echo of a speech he gave on the Senate floor Friday accusing Mr. McConnell of lying about a deal to give supporters of the Export-Import Bank an opportunity to revive it in exchange for votes for a trade bill.

Earlier, Sen. Cruz protested that he'd NEVER "throw rocks" at a fellow Republican, reeled in disbelief that anyone could have misconstrued his comments as a personal attack on the Majority Leader.  They apparently grow mega tough hides down in the Lone Star state.