Cruz is great.
Right in there with Trey Gowdy.

Mitt is a choir boy.

We needed a bull dog.

Mitt Romney went to a gun fight with a plastic knife.

It was for exactly this kind of reason that Cruz was not my candidate in the primary. He sometimes hurts the party by dividing it when it´s not necessary -- just for the sake of it sometimes, it seems. He has strengths, but he doesn´t have to be mean.

I´m disappointed Romney lost, but I´m also disappointed to hear Senstor-elect Cruz speaking this way. When will Republicans stand together and address the issue of vote harvesting and dirty tricks? It´s easy to throw mud on the losing candidate two weeks after an election, but cheap. Thought Cruz was better than that.

I voted for Cruz but this is not the first thing I´ve seen from him that I don´t like.

I don´t see any reason to slime a good and honorable man who made a valiant effort to wrest this nation from the grasp of a Marxist regime.

I´m sick of the Romney bashing from a number of other sources, as well.

How vulgar.

Word #3 and #4. I think Romney did make a mistake not going after Obama on Benghazi and Obamacare and opted instead to just ´look´ presidential, and Ryan didn´t come across strong enough against the repulsive, hideous Biden either. There were mistakes, miscalculations. But there´s no need to go into hyperbole and call it a French kiss, it was nothing like that. Mitt deserves better.

The French kisser is Obama, any time a dictator blows into town.

cruz seems to be lewd, crude and socially unacceptabe. Not classy and that is an understatement, glad I didn´t have to vote for him.

There´s a mental picture I could have done without. Please keep your comments G-rated Mr. Cruz ~ your words reflect on your (& my) church family as well as the great state of Texas.

Crude Cruz just disqualified himself in my estimation. He seemed like a lounge show warmup at the convention. He talks like one, too.

Read the Must Read: "The Victim of a Crime".

Cruz and those who believe the loss of the election was Romney´s fault are delusional. We know how it was lost. The robber - Obama.

No one we´d have run would have fared any differently than Romney did.

Trey Gowdy and Cruz similar? Be serious. Gowdy is a strong man, a potential patriot, and a gentlemn.

Cruz is a flashy, shiny suit with a foul mouth.

I´m also tired of the Romney bashing. It serves no purpose whatsoever ..

Many of us here were not big fans of Mitt Romney from Day One, but when it became clear he ´´won´´ the nomination, we got fully behind him. I went, enthusiastically, to every rally in Las Vegas he appeared at. And an couple of Obama´s, as a protestor outside the event.

Along the way, however, Mitt lost (if he ever really had) the conservative core that Cruz and other conservatives live and breathe. Still, yes, he put up as good a fight as he could have. As HE could have.

Cruz is right, whether you want to admit it, or like it, or not.

Until we present candidates, like Cruz, who demonstrate a clear difference between Republicans and Democrats, we will keep losing. The Republican Party has become Democrat-Lite. And it´s obvious today that when it comes to a choice between Democrat and Democrat-Lite, most American voters (setting aside the fraud factor) went with the real thing.

Perhaps the French-kissing comment has you disturbed, but the Republican Establishment lost many races around the country with their Demo Lite strategery. Mitt tried. And lost.

Cruz actually IS, and won.

Thank you #3 5 8

When I saw him at the convention I thought....little bantam rooster.

Ugh. His swagger is revolting.

And 10

Ted Cruz is a trial lawyer and this is what trial lawyers do. It´s why I voted for Dewhurst in the primary. But, Cruz, up until now, has done a good job supporting Romney as our nominee and mending the Texas fences with those of us who distrusted him.

This is a step backward, Mr. Cruz. You haven´t built enough creds yet to be cutting down Mitt Romney.

I think Romney is absolutely outstanding as a person, but not as a candidate. Winning elections in the US means explaining difficult things to dimwits. It´s akin to teaching civics to preschool children. If you can´t manage this, then it´s hard to get elected.

I find this remark distasteful as well. If the RNC could only figure out that in this sentiment is the disdain so many of us have for the party that sets up such flawed candidates, even a wonderful individual like Governor Romney, who refused to engage the party of doom.
Ramona (the Pest)

It is this exact same MEAN STREAK that caused me to vote against Cruz in the TX primaries. Spoiled, rotten. More than likely an only child.

It was either the comment by Cruz of "french Kissing" or "kissing obama´s backside" which Romney did. Wimpy candidates who think it was "their turn to be The Candidate" never win. Romney has a mean streak--that was used in the primaries against his peers-BUT, was able to keep his hands clean and say it was the PACS and he had no control.
Strange, when complaints of other PACs were made, the candidate who was supported by those PACs immediately said for those ads to be pulled or that they did not agree with those ads.
Romney´s surrogates, although not too publicly but in a sneaking way, spent over 4 years going after the person he knew could keep him from being "the" candidate for pres.
It´s a crying shame Romney didn´t have the GUTS or BACKBONE to confront the muslim fraud in the WH.
Ted Cruz is spot on! Darn happy I voted for him. Anyone professing Dewhurst as their choice approves of crony capitalism, the elite ruling class/establishment in DC, who get along to see who can best fleece the citizenship; no backbone for their beliefs.

I thought Romney had drawbacks in early 2012, but he emerged as the best candidate and I said nothing more about my apprehensions. Good Man and thanks to him for going where few dared.

What Cruz said reflects the real drawbacks including the likelihood of too many "me too, Mr. President" moments in the final weeks. Mitt underperformed McCain in Republican votes if he picked up more than 790,000 independent votes that everybody says he did. Thinking about that.

But more than anything, it was the media. There were better moves available using all of media and message strength and exposing the demagoguery were parts of that equation. We will have to do these things next time and the good news is that it will be a little easier next time too. But we still have to do them - effectively.

So, on one hand, we needed to confront Obama and the progressives directly and forcefully, while, on the other, we get the vapors every time one of our guys fails to utter a stream of focus-grouped inanities.

"Romney´s surrogates, although not too publicly but in a sneaking way, spent over 4 years going after the person he knew could keep him from being "the" candidate for pres."

???? Every person who wanted to run for president, and who had the guts to actually get into the race and campaign, did so. If there were any who chose not to step up, that person has forfeited allegiance or belief in being the one who could have stopped Mitt Romney.

´´This is a step backward, Mr. Cruz. You haven´t built enough creds yet to be cutting down Mitt Romney.´´

As someone who voted for Ted Cruz in Texas, this comment about Romney is quite perplexing at this point. It is true that one needs to first be sworn in and establish some political savvy first in submitting and supporting key GOP legislation, instead of going backwards and attacking our ´´flawed´´ candidate.

Romney was on the bottom of my list as far as candidates go in the primary. I forgot until someone pointed it out here that he got to the top by slinging mud at all the other GOP conservative front-runners and knocking all of them out of contention. That he DIDN´T rub salt in 0bama´s political gaping wounds during his blitz to election day is beyond me.

Romney, like a general who tied his fate to his past victories & spotless uniform with many campaign medals, didn´t inspire US in the present to come out in enough numbers to win the one final battle for him to claim victory.

Cruz, we need forward thinkers, not another ´´mouth from the South.´´ Keep focused on our conservative values by being a role model for other Tea Party candidates.

Rush has always said that given a choice of dem or dem-lite, democrats will always go with the real democrat. Why vote for the fake? Until the RNC takes this advice to heart and runs a conservative in the Reagan mold, they will always lose the race.

I voted for Romney, but would have preferred a more conservative candidate.

To all of you crying about Romneys mud slinging. Gingrich was much to unstable to endure a presidential campaign, Santorum would have given Obama a forty state victory. Did Romney make mistakes yes, did bigoted social conservatives not vote for Romney because he´s a Mormon, yes, and may they burn in hell, is Cruz right Romney should have stayed tough during the last debate yes, is Cruz a slob and a pig yes.

Voted for Cruz and have no problem with what he said. The very good and accomplished Rep candidate went up against a street fighter, and lost.

Vote for revenge?

I´d like to see some documentation of the fact that Romney´s surrogates spent four years preventing anyone from getting into the presidential race, plus some details on how they accomplished this goal. Otherwise it just appears to be a hollow rationalization.

As for Cruz, he should know better than to join the circular firing squad. This accomplishes nothing.

Absolutely terrific! Note Cruz would not bite when asked about Mitt´s comments about Obama´s "gifts?" BRAVO. I get so irritated at our guys falling for the same media traps time after time.... Cruz is AWESOME!!!

...BUT the French kissing comment was unnecessary and he better lay off that stuff from now on. Otherwise, fine.

I caught part of Cruz´s speech on C-SPAN, and speaking as a former Romneybot, I thought he was right on. He was not attacking Romney, but just stating the obvious. At one point, Cruz talked about the "mendacity" of the "War on Women" theme, mocking and refuting it very effectively, I thought. Why couldn´t Romney have done the same thing?

But we knew going in that for all his personal gifts, Romney is not especially good at conveying strength and talking about ideas.

I voted for Romney, but wanted to vote for Palin. Maybe next time.

Cruz got it right. Romney did not present a compelling reason to vote for common sense and logic and against the imbecile we are stuck with.

Cruz is CRUDE! What #3, #5, #8, #10 #11 and #12 said, and any others who see Cruz for what he really is, a loudmouth-opportunist-wannabe-GOP-"star" who sounds a lot more like a demonrat than a Conservative. BTW, is HE supposed to be the kind of "Conservative" that represents the Tea Party now? If he is, count me out. Cruz´ name and Trey Gowdy´s should not be used in the same sentence...Ever...

#26 - before you blame social conservatives and say they should rot in hell perhaps it would be better to see if your hysterical analysis had actual facts to support it.

79 percent of white evangelicals voted for Romney on Tuesday. That´s the same percentage that Bush received in 2004, and more than Sen. John McCain received in 2008. The evangelical vote was 27 percent of the overall electorate -- the highest it´s ever been for an election.

In retrospect, it seems neither Romney´s supporters nor his critics saw him entire and clear. Mitt Romney is, by all accounts, an extraordinary man with deeply conservative instincts governing how he has led his life. Successful in business, sincere in his faith and, above all else, secure in his love of family. He is a living archetype of what conservative values look like in practice. His critics (myself included) were slow to recognize the good in Mitt the man, and his supporters were too quick to assume that Romney´s personal values would translate into the political virtues that win elections. As a politician, Romney was opportunistic in his embrace of conservative positions and dishonest in his attacks on conservative rivals. He was inconsistent and ineffective in advancing conservative ideas against Obamaism and completely failed to engage and defeat the liberal media complex that was his true opponent. The Romney Campaign was a mess without a message--bad polling assumptions, no campaign slogan, reactive on the air, and inept on the ground. With an economy this bad, it was Romney´s election to lose, and he did.

Weighing all this up, I come to this: Ted Cruz was right in what he said, and wrong to have said the way he did.

Another classless Haavard Law Ambulance Chaser speaks. We would have been better off with the Dewhurst fella. This guy is as phony as Jindal is awkward.

If someone wanted a nice career politician who would ´´play nice´´ and say politically correct things, you probably voted for Senator Cruz´s opponent in the primary.

The Republicans are never going to win another key election by ´´playing nice´´. Period!!! We need candidates that can get in the Demon-RAT gutter and out-nasty the Demon-RATS.

The rules have changed. The people have proven they don´t want ´´nice´´ any more. They ignore nice. They sit home knowing that nice can´t win.

I, for one, hope Senator Cruz is just getting started, and will be a HUGE thorn in both the Demon-RAT´s, and the establishment RINO´s, sides for many years to come!!! That is exactly why I voted for him every step along the way!!!

Cruz is obviously an amateur. In politics, the Left and the stupid celebrate crudity.

Next,I suppose, Cruz will be rubbing his nose with his ´bird´ finger as he says other Republican names so he will look as gangsta as dearLeader. My my how droll.
Cruz is a lout. I´m sure he and Al Franken will become BFFs as soon as he is sworn in….
(And I am so thankful we didn´t send him a single dime.)

Nolan Ryan supported Dewhurst in the Texas primary and that´s good enough for me. Seems as if the Tea Party does have a knack for picking too many jerks.

It is easy to talk trash after the fact. Where was Cruz when he could have made a difference?

Ted Cruz sounds like a disgusting fool. And, if people think he is a "real" conservative, just give him a few months in DC. He´ll turn in to a lib just like everyone else.

I am convinced our country doesn´t deserve a decent, honest man like Romney as president.

Sorry Cruz I had high hopes for you but you are crude & rude. Probably a closet dem.