Squishes Step Aside: Ted Cruz And Chris Christie's Old-School Manliness

GOP Heavy-Hitters Bring Unapologetic Swagger
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 23: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Rights hearing on Capitol Hill on April 2013 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee is hearing testimony on drones and its constitutional and counterterrorism implications. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 23: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Rights hearing on Capitol Hill on April 2013 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee is hearing testimony on drones and its constitutional and counterterrorism implications. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Two Republican heavy hitters are bringing manly back to their machismo-starved party.

In terms of public image, it’s hard to think of two Republican pols less alike than Ted Cruz and Chris Christie. Since his Beltway arrival this winter, the Texas senator—laboring tirelessly to cast himself as the party’s loudest, proudest, most uncompromising ideologue—has rocketed past more senior colleagues to become the GOPer that non-right-wingers love to bash. A couple hundred miles north, meanwhile, the equally in-your-face New Jersey governor reigns as the Republican non-wingers love to praise: a bellicose poster boy for pragmatic governance.

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