Keep quiet, Ted Cruz - By Kathleen Parker
Two things are often said in this town: “A day is a year in politics.” And, “It’s all about 2014.”
Combined, the two statements mean that much can happen between now and the midterm elections next year, when Republicans hope to hold the House and gain the Senate — and Democrats intend to hold the Senate and recover the House.
Each respective goal is equally possible depending on the same single significant determinant: whether Ted Cruz stops talking.
While that thought settles in, we pause to note that, right now, the idea that Republicans could convince anyone that they should be allowed to deliver milk, much less hold the nation’s purse strings, seems remote. But things do change quickly around here. With the debt crisis postponed and the government up and running again — faith in the efficiency of which underscores the direness of our political straits — most Americans will settle into the season’s serial holiday distractions and move right along.
Nothing to see here. Even the barricades are gone.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathleen-parker-the-crux-of-ted-cruz/2013/10/18/81e3184a-381b-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
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The following appears in the Comment section under the above column by Kathleen Parker:
Ms. Parker, Ted Cruz belongs to you. He belongs to every mainstream, establishment Republican who happily bought into all the fire that Obama's election seemed to induce in a segment of the electorate. Every one of you who let the birther nonsense become regular conversation, who looked the other way when the insults got more than a little personal and out of bounds, who hosted and toasted Donald Trump, who stroked Rock Santorum's ego and pretended Michelle Bachmann was serious, and exulted in Sarah Palin's folksy stick it in your gut willful ignorance. Cruz is yours. A very smart, very angry man with a towering ego and no internal fuse. If you don't want him, maybe the next time you won't enable him.
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Not!
He has a loyal body of sycophants, and their numbers are growing. He also sees himself as President one day. No way he's going to stop talking.
Personally, I'm stocking up on popcorn.
-Laelth
I've been reading her drivel for so long, and there are so many examples of Parker thinking poorly and writing badly, that I can't possibly identify the precise example of her typical banality to which you are referring.
-Laelth
She's worse than I thought.
Actually, I went looking too...then I thought, maybe I'm thinking of Ann Appelbaum & started googling her...then I realized there's been so much awful commentary in the last 10 years that reading it again & reminding myself of it would put me in a very foul mood indeed. So I stopped looking & went to pet my dog 
I love the way these repukes are trying to get the Cruz slime off of them...they ain't fooling anyone, tho...
The entire M$M made deliberate efforts to "legitimize" the loons by nurturing their idiotic rants and feeding their wacked-out egos. The result has been a disaster for this planet.
Bravo to the commenter on this WP article and truth to the power! 
And to the OP - thanks for finding that! 
She essentially claims that Obama gave Cruz his "megaphone?!?!!!!!" 
Omg, I used to have some respect for occasional columns from her. But between this one and the link to the incredibly racist one (riots? Really? every time a black person is randomly killed, there are riots? REALLY?!?!), I feel nauseous....ugh. What an ugly old woman she is becoming. The next Peggy Noonan. Swell. She even "borrows" the "shards of broken glass" line. 
