Ted Cruz's Own Poll Shows Voters Blame Republicans for Shutdown, But They Call it a GOP Gain

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I don't know what's funnier - the article or some of the comments following the article, rofl

Fair warning - sorry about the source. This is just a little taste of the crazies.

Ted Cruz poll shows GOP gained in fight over Obamacare despite shutdown

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Republicans who attended the weekly lunch hosted by Senate conservatives confirmed that Cruz presented a poll that the Texan paid for. Cruz’ pollster, Chris Perkins, was there for a portion of the discussion to help walk members through the poll and discuss the party's messaging strategy. Perkins is a partner with Wilson Perkins Allen, a GOP polling firm with dozens of Republican clients.

The survey’s findings mirrored other national polls: More voters blame the Republicans for the government shutdown than blame President Obama or the Democrats. But Cruz argued, based on the poll, that Republicans are in a much better position than they were during the 1995 shutdown because this impasse is defined by a disagreement over funding for the Affordable Care Act as opposed to a general disagreement over government spending.

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– By a margin of 46 percent to 39 percent, voters blamed Republicans for the shutdown over “Obama and Democrats.” Another 19 percent blamed both sides equally.

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/ted-cruz-poll-shows-gop-gained-in-fight-over-obamacare-despite-shutdown/article/2537066

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1. It's amazing how I can continuously be surprised at Republican stupidity.

You would think that after so many times, it wouldn't be surprising anymore.

[Emit]

2. You pretty much just summed up how I feel after reading that article

In fact, I had to read it twice just to make sure it wasn't satire.

[YoungDemCA]

3. I wouldn't call it stupidity-that doesn't do it justice

It's literally living in a different universe of information and "logic" than the rest of us inhabit.

[Emit]

10. And a total lack of critical thinking that I think is related to their personality type

This stuff has been posted before but it's worth a reminder now and then:

From Dr. Altemeyer's work on Right Wing Authoritarians:

5. A lack of critical thinking. Authoritarian followers have more trouble thinking logically than most people do. In particular, they tend to agree with sayings and slogans, even contradictory ones, because they have heard them a lot. Thus Tea Partiers reflexively, patriotically thump that the United States is the best country on earth, but as well that it is now an Obama dictatorship. They also have extra trouble applying logic to false reasoning when they like the conclusion. A ready example can be found in Tea Partiers‟ assertion that Obama is a socialist. They have heard this over and over again from Rush Limbaugh, etcetera, and “so it must be true.” But Obama has never advocated state ownership of an industry. He certainly did not advocate state ownership of health insurance, and eventually even backed away from the “public option” (that most Americans wanted) which would have let the government as well as private companies offer health insurance.

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/drbob/Comment%20on%20the%20Tea%20Party.pdf

From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023777309
Revisiting Right-wing Authoritarianism: Insight into Tea Party and Congressional Gridlock

[Cali_Democrat]

4. LOL. You weren't kidding about those comments.

Hilarious.

[Cha]

5. More crap from their Orwellian playbook, Emit..

"Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell

[blkmusclmachine]

6. The GOP's bald-faced lies are on cruise control.

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12. Did you mean

Cruz control?

[C_U_L8R]

7. It's called getting high on your own supply

Or believing your own bullshit.
Or what Dick Cheney and his pet monkey would call reality making.

[B Calm]

8. and Ohio will go to Romney- take it to the bank!

I loved that comment!

[Emit]

9. Kick

[spanone]

11. so every congress person now conducts their own poll? bullshit