Rich Lowery of National Review has great column on why Progressives, aka Liberals, hate Ted Cruz. Some quotes:
Democrats and liberal pundits would surely dislike Cruz no matter where he went to school, but his pedigree adds an extra element of shocked disbelief to the disdain. “Princeton and Harvard should be disgraced,” former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell exclaimed on MSNBC, as if graduating a constitutionalist conservative who rises to national prominence is a violation of the schools’ mission statements.....
One of the left’s deepest prejudices is that its opponents are stupid, and Cruz tramples on it....
Cruz lacks all defensiveness about his positions, another source of annoyance to his opponents, who are used to donning the mantle of both intellectual and moral superiority.Ted Cruz has picked up the flag that fell when Bill Buckley died!
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/ted-cruz-traitor-to-his-class-95779.html#ixzz2cj10OHiC
