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Conservative columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer asks of Ted Cruz, "Where is he now?"

Courtesy of Politico:

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer continued his criticism of Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday, asking, “Where is he now?”

“How exactly was he going to achieve abolition of Obamacare? Explain that to me. Has he ever explained it? And where is he now?” Krauthammer said on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

Krauthammer, who has previously hit Cruz (R-Texas) on the strategy of shutdown to defund Obamacare, included Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in his questioning and said the two went home to “have lunch.”

“I mean his sidekick, Sen. [Mike] Lee said, ‘Oh, we’re past Obamacare. We moved on.’ These are the generals who lead people into the Battle of [the] Little Bighorn and then go home and have lunch and leave the troops out there? Where are they? Where are the generals? What’s their strategy to get abolition of Obamacare?” Krauthammer said.

Krauthammer did emphasize while he is on the ideological side of repealing Obamacare, there was no strategy laid out by Cruz. “I argued [to repeal Obamacare] in ’09 and ’10.

I argued it every week in my writing, on television … all of us were in the trenches. Cruz arrives on the scene and pretends he’s just begun the fight against Obamacare,” Krauthammer said.

He continued, “I’ve been calling this the ‘kamikaze brigade’… ‘the suicide caucus.’ I’m all for charging the barricades, but you’ve got to show me how to penetrate them. … And people are saying Republicans are in retreat. They’re not in retreat, there never was a way to abolish Obamacare now,” Krauthammer said.

Once again I rarely agree with Krauthammer on anything, but he is certainly dead on in this instance.

However what I think Krauthammer is missing is that Cruz could NOT care less about "the troops" he left on the field. Everything he does is all ABOUT Ted Cruz, all FOR Ted Cruz, and is only meant to BENEFIT Ted Cruz.

Cruz sees himself as leading his own contingent of troops who are only minimally connected to the Republican party, and if the party is not okay with that he probably believes he can launch a coup and take control of the Republican party.

Hmm, I wonder if they well popcorn in bulk?

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