It's time for a Ted Cruz thread.

Trebuchet said:
I had to go back and look at that chart again and it took me a long moment to realize it's the number of evaluations with percentage in parentheses.
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You were actually much more merciful to Cruz in your statement of the amount of false-s than you were off in the amount of true-s.
Trebuchet said:
I believe there's a word for the belief that it's ok to lie if you do it for the benefit of God. Anybody know what that is?
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Trebuchet said:
I may actually be thinking of an Islamic thing. I'm not even sure what to google.
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Childlike Empress said:
Let me google that for you. ;)

Third hit.
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I see what you did there. :) First hit actually with me. Taqiya. Damned I couldn't come up with it on my own, it's also a favourite word of Geert Wilders.
 
Trebuchet said:
I had to go back and look at that chart again and it took me a long moment to realize it's the number of evaluations with percentage in parentheses.

I believe there's a word for the belief that it's ok to lie if you do it for the benefit of God. Anybody know what that is?
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More and more people I talk to have a harder time believing he is sincerely religious; he is such an a-hole to everybody. I am starting to think he just worships himself and seeks power.

Lying about Trump's view of Obamacare is not leading people to Jesus, it is leading people to follow Cruz.
 
ddt said:
I see what you did there. :) First hit actually with me. Taqiya. Damned I couldn't come up with it on my own, it's also a favourite word of Geert Wilders.
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I'm sure. These hate preachers will usually omit the "under serious threat of persecution" part and add "to be able to blow up mom and apple pie". ;)
 
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Haha: ‘He’s possessed by a demon’: Man attempts exorcism on Ted Cruz during campaign event

Raw Story said:
[...] According to The Dallas Morning News, Cruz had just finished his stump speech when the men began shouting at the candidate.

“Ted Cruz look in the mirror and let the evil spirit depart!” one man exclaimed. “He’s possessed by a demon!”

As the crowd booed, Cruz suggested that the “very confused fellow” was part of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign. [...]
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LOL, what a sleazebag.

Raw Story said:
[...] The men, who declined to give their names, later explained to reporters why they had heckled the Texas Senator.

“We just had to get rid of the evil spirit. I hope it works,” one man remarked, motioning that he was sick to his stomach. “He’s very hard to be in the same room with. We had to exorcise some sort of disgusting evil spirit. There’s a reason that the body is so haggard and disgusting, and the face, and it’s all so weathered and gross and hard to look at.” [...]
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Well, there must be some reason for it. ;)
 
Ted's sole national security adviser, Victoria Coates, is an art historian with zero national security experience.

She has never worked in the Pentagon; never worked in the State Department; never worked in the intelligence community; never served in any branch of the military; never lived overseas representing the United States in any way; never worked for the federal government; never had a security clearance; never written a book, or indeed any academic or professional article, on national security, any aspect of any of the branches of the military, or on modern international relations; never been in a combat zone, one of ours or anybody else's.
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But hey, she "missed being a double-major in political science by one class credit"! :D
 
Senex said:
What republican would skeptics want to vote for?

Kasich is the most reasonable candidate but he will lose.

Ted Cruz is born again.

I think most of the people reading this should vote democratic.
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I've been thinking about this for months now. Kasich is the only one who hasn't actually made me cringe in debate, Christie seems like he could do the job well but he's anti pot, anti queers and loudly and repeatedly anti abortion. From what I've seen of JEB! I think he would be a okay president but would be an excellent high school principal. I keep wanting to like Rubio but he keeps pulling his religion out and playing with it in public.

I really don't think I could cross the line and vote for any of them.
 
Jrrarglblarg said:
I've been thinking about this for months now. Kasich is the only one who hasn't actually made me cringe in debate, Christie seems like he could do the job well but he's anti pot, anti queers and loudly and repeatedly anti abortion. From what I've seen of JEB! I think he would be a okay president but would be an excellent high school principal. I keep wanting to like Rubio but he keeps pulling his religion out and playing with it in public.

I really don't think I could cross the line and vote for any of them.
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It's shameful what the republicans offer.
 
I was very much expecting a slate of electable candidates this time around. In '08 the Republicans threw a bone at their oldest, loudest RINO but made him fish all the way at the bottom of the barrel for a running mate. It seemed obvious at the time they didn't actually want to clean up Dubya's mess. I predicted at the time when the economy recovered the republicans would run decent candidates again.

In '12 the negro hadn't yet finished mopping the White House, so they threw a bone at one of the non-Evangelicals, a Mormon but a "real" republican. And they paired him with an economics policy wonk, just in case he actually won. But it began with another clown car of unelectable dingbats. It seemed obvious to me at the time that Romney couldn't win and the GOP didn't want him to.

I was expecting a decent slate of governors to take one step forward in '16 instead of one step back, and we got a couple of them. I think with a decent team and no Wolfowitz or Rumsfeld involved any of the goobs we've seen on stage could do a fine job of not digging the hole any deeper. But we have Trump the Jabroni stirring the soup too hard and the one cute young guy (bonus: brown! But not too dark!) seems in over his head.

So my GOP conspiracy theory stands thusly: either the GOP is far less in control of the party than they used to be, or the economy is worse than the public has been led to understand, or the GOP still doesn't want anything to do with the foreign affairs mess the Cheney/Rumsfeld administration made.
 
Jrrarglblarg said:
I was very much expecting a slate of electable candidates this time around. In '08 the Republicans threw a bone at their oldest, loudest RINO but made him fish all the way at the bottom of the barrel for a running mate. It seemed obvious at the time they didn't actually want to clean up Dubya's mess. I predicted at the time when the economy recovered the republicans would run decent candidates again.
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We all make poor predictions now and then.
 
Well I'm still on record for Trump to go down before the convention.

But Cruz, now, he's totally the kind of candidate I'd expect to keep slogging along. And I expect we will see his well chisled chin again in 2020.
 
Jrrarglblarg said:
I've been thinking about this for months now. Kasich is the only one who hasn't actually made me cringe in debate, Christie seems like he could do the job well but he's anti pot, anti queers and loudly and repeatedly anti abortion. From what I've seen of JEB! I think he would be a okay president but would be an excellent high school principal. I keep wanting to like Rubio but he keeps pulling his religion out and playing with it in public.

I really don't think I could cross the line and vote for any of them.
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Well said. I hope Kasich finds some footing, but I fear he won't. I'll hold of looking into him more seriously until he hits another second place.
 
So, it was revealed that an actress hired to be in a Ted Cruz commercial had previously worked in soft-core porn. The campaign is denying they knew anything about it and the actress says she told the casting director.

Am I being too cynical if I believe that the whole thing was set up just to get some free air time?
 
Cruz said that a vote for liberals would mean we sandblast crosses and stars of David off of tombs.

What in the living hell is this guy on?
 
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