It's time for a Ted Cruz thread.

varwoche said:
Not quite. Trump threatened to challenge Cruz's eligibility in court unless Cruz apologized for supposedly lying.
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Not quite. The first time around, Trump threatened to sue regarding Cruz's eligibility. More recently, Trump also threatened to sue for defamation.
 
Faydra said:
I somewhat agree with your list with a minor modification:

Sanders, because I agree with his policies and I trust him to do the right thing for the people, not the corporations.
Clinton, because God Forbid anyone of the Republican clown car gets into the oval office.
Kaschich because he's reasonable. (but clearly also insane).
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I wouldn't call those minor differences. :p
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
This is the part I don't understand, Cruz is unabashed about using deceitful tactics. He halfway apologized for telling voters Carson had dropped out, called it a mistake. But he proudly owns the photoshopped image of Rubio shaking Obama's hand.

Someone really should ask him about that False Witness Commandment at the next debate or town hall. I'm sure he'll dance around the photoshopping with some excuse or another, but still I'd like someone to bring it up.
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Right wing evangelicals/fundies would crucify Jesus (again???) if he showed up and explained their place in hell to them and told them why!!!Of course Jesus (if it existed) could jump off their punky cross and bring Satan to Earth to help him sodomize them all with their prongs of fire!!!!!!! I would pay to watch that and cheer J & S on!!!
 
Ziggurat said:
Not quite. The first time around, Trump threatened to sue regarding Cruz's eligibility. More recently, Trump also threatened to sue for defamation.
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How the heck can anyone defame Trump? No matter how bad it is, it is certain to be true. Just ask the Pandas and the camels!!!!!
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
This is the part I don't understand, Cruz is unabashed about using deceitful tactics. He halfway apologized for telling voters Carson had dropped out, called it a mistake. But he proudly owns the photoshopped image of Rubio shaking Obama's hand.

Someone really should ask him about that False Witness Commandment at the next debate or town hall. I'm sure he'll dance around the photoshopping with some excuse or another, but still I'd like someone to bring it up.
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Part of me wonders if the rationalization goes something like: "These others guys will be bad choices. If a lie is necessary to convince voters of this fact, it's not wrong. The lie is just the vehicle that delivers the truth that 'this person is bad'."
 
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Maya22 said:
Sometimes, it seems like Ted Cruz is a character created by Margaret Atwood.
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Or, if you want a better example from a real Science Fiction writer, how about Nehemiah Scudder from Heinlein's Future History series (in in particular Concerning Stories Never Written)?

Published in 1953!!

. . . gave a rough description of Nehemiah Scudder which made his reign easy to visualize—a combination of John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Huey Long. His rise to power began when one of his flock, the widow of a wealthy man who would have disapproved of Scudder, died and left him enough money to establish a television station. He then teamed up with an ex-Senator and hired a major advertising agency. He was soon famous even off-world—many bonded laborers on Venus saw him as a messianic figure. He had muscle as well—a recreation of the Ku Klux Klan in everything but name. "Blood at the polls and blood in the streets, but Scudder won the election. The next election was never held."
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Especially note:

Though this period was integral to the human diaspora that would follow several hundred years later, Heinlein stated that he was never able to write them because they featured Scudder prominently; he "dislike(d) him too much".
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From our friends at wiki -- Future_History_%28Heinlein%29WP
 
Why would anyone think it's a bad thing for a senator to shake the president's hand? They've both been elected by due process, they both represent voters, can they not be presumed to have some interests in common?

I guess not by Cruz. I don't think this will help him.
 
Minoosh said:
Why would anyone think it's a bad thing for a senator to shake the president's hand? They've both been elected by due process, they both represent voters, can they not be presumed to have some interests in common?

I guess not by Cruz. I don't think this will help him.
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It might well with his particular group of crazies..........
 
Minoosh said:
Why would anyone think it's a bad thing for a senator to shake the president's hand? They've both been elected by due process, they both represent voters, can they not be presumed to have some interests in common?

I guess not by Cruz. I don't think this will help him.
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Yes. At first the complaint seemed rather 1950ish to me. I think the bigger issue with the handshake is that it implies that Rubio conspired with Obama against the United States - at least that is the impression I get from the accompanying text.
 

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Perhaps wishful thinking, but we may have reached peak Cruz. Only a portion of the Tea Party are evangelicals, the others went for Trump or Rubio. The number of people supporting Cruz right now are pretty much the only ones that ever will.
 
Trebuchet said:
Perhaps wishful thinking, but we may have reached peak Cruz. Only a portion of the Tea Party are evangelicals, the others went for Trump or Rubio. The number of people supporting Cruz right now are pretty much the only ones that ever will.
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And in support of the above, he's been forced to fire a top staffer. Top....Staffer.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ted-cruz-marco-rubio-2016-219645
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/...esman-rick-tylers-resignation-219632?lo=ap_b1

Scumbag fires scumbag, news at 11:00.
 
Trebuchet said:
And in support of the above, he's been forced to fire a top staffer. Top....Staffer.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ted-cruz-marco-rubio-2016-219645
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/...esman-rick-tylers-resignation-219632?lo=ap_b1

Scumbag fires scumbag, news at 11:00.
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"The Bible doesn't have very many answers"
That was a low blow on the part of the Cruz campaign. There have been too many things like this for me to believe that Ted didn't want this kind of stuff done.
 
Minoosh said:
Why would anyone think it's a bad thing for a senator to shake the president's hand? They've both been elected by due process, they both represent voters, can they not be presumed to have some interests in common?

I guess not by Cruz. I don't think this will help him.
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They think shaking Obama's hand is what sunk Christie.
 
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