Middle America's Worldview

Ted Cruz is on a roll. He was given a standing ovation in his New Hampshire speech. Recently, he sat down with ABC’s Jonathan Karl. During the interview  he was again blunt about the issues of Congress and Obamacare.

During the discussion, the reporter honed in on Cruz’ statement that “Obamacare will destroy America.”

Cruz  immediately focused on the current President’s weakness. Citing specifically that Obama has “abandoned our friends” while “coddling our enemies.” If nothing else, Ted Cruz does not hold back his feelings toward the current issues, even reminding the public of the Benghazi murders with no retribution from this administration.

When questioned about what Cruz would do differently, he immediately said, “Let’s rewind” and then stated, “don’t demonstrate weakness for 5 years.”

Cruz’s view on foreign policy does contrast with Rand Paul, another known Tea Party member. What is impressive is Cruz’ ability to attack the Old Republican members as well as across the aisle. The fight is not against parties for this Senator, but against ideology. Those in the Republican party do not agree on everything.  If they show weakness in being liberal minded, or flip flopping on issues, Cruz will take them on.

A more interesting reply from Cruz came when Karl said the repeal of ObamaCare will not happen while Barack Obama is president.

“I’ll give you one scenario where it could. If there’s one thing that unifies politicians of both parties, it’s their top priority for preserving their own hide. And if enough congressional Democrats

 realize they either stand with Obamacare or lose, or they listen to the American people and have a chance of staying in office, that’s the one scenario where we could do it in 2015. If not, we’ll do it in 2017.”