Bubba Is Still Trying to Figure This One Out
Texas Senator Ted Cruz has got himself an idea.
If you raise $500,000 for him, you get to go to his house and have dinner with Ted and his wife.
I was telling Bubba about it last night and he said, “No, I won’t be participating.”
I replied, “What? You don’t have an extra 500 grand sitting around?”
“Wait!” Bubba hollered. “You mean I have to pay him? Hell, I though the deal was that he’d pay me $500,000 to come to his house. Damn. So, the answer is still no.”
Thanks to Fred for the heads up.
Ahhhh … ha! ha! ha!
Good on Bubba … the answer will always be NO!!!!
1This “opportunity” just boggles my mind. But no.
Now if that was say Stephanie Seymour or Elle MacPherson, I’d be on Kickstarter … now.
2There was a movie a while back about a million dollars to sleep with Robert Redford, but, damn, I didn’t have a million dollars. If it had been Richard Gere, I’d have tried even harder to scrape up that much.
3As for Cruz– I didn’t want to have that name in the same comment as the other two– the only advantage of dinner with him would be weight loss, because if I could possibly eat anything I wouldn’t keep it down.
4I have a better offer for Daffy Cruz, Jr. I will pay he and his wife the equivalent of whatever a Texas family of two receives in ‘government cheese,’ when down on their luck for a month. My only condition: that’s how they live and eat for a month.
That would be a good start on campaign finance reform, too. We the taxpayers will fund all campaigns at the “generous rates of TANF available in their home states. No more slumming at Chipotle for HRC, it’s the dollar menu for you too, Baby!
5Not surprisingly, PKM has blurted out a pretty good thought to start campaign finance reform. That is, those who run for national public office, POTUS, V-POTUS, Senators, Representatives, should be held to a spending limit equal to the maximum daily amount government programs spend on the one poor or under-whatever citizen. Any party affiliation. Any family, regardless of how many dads, uncles or grand-dads have been or have run for POTUS. And once that humongous daily limit is spent, they suck their thumbs until tomorrow. And since the goal of this exercise is to teach responsibility, the US government should channel these funds to the campaigns, so the campaigns can politely say to their supports “Thanks, but we got all the campaign spending funds we need from our govment!”
6I’m with Bubba. Carnival Cruz could not pay me enough to sit at his table, with or without his ux.
7Total agreement with Bubba re: dinner with the Cruzes. Now, if they were to donate that amount to homeless vets, or something like that, I might hold my nose and go to dinner.
I think our election cycles should be like those in the UK: only run for six weeks, then the election. There’s no benefit I can see to boring everyone into stupidity because most people know how they’re going to vote in that amount of time.
Actually, I can see how the present election cycle works to the benefit of R’s; they turn off most citizens and thus reduce the people who actually vote.
8Who would be able to eat anything while sitting across the table, looking at Cruz, Jr. or Sr.?
9Wow! That reminds me of a certain psych class I had in grad school where the prof asked us who of all the great minds in the psych field we would most want to have as a dinner guest. I was the only one who said no way to the list he had and he was stunned. What? I didn’t want to slurp soup with Sigmund Freud or any of the other alleged geniuses? Why not? Response: lack of diversification. Stunned silence, then, what do you mean? Me: When women get the same glory for doing the same damn thing as these guys do, I just might consider her as a dinner guest. Would you believe that during the entire Masters program in psych, not one woman was included in the required reading list, and by gosh, I know there had to have been at least one!
10I agree with Bubba.
11I can’t imagine paying for the privilege of dinner at Chez Cruz, even if Mrs. C is a lovely hostess. There is no meal that would entice me to sit down with him, and unless he means his summer home AKA the Louvre, with a trip in a private jet, it’s still no sale.
12Ewwwwwww! The thought of having to listen to his obnoxious voice and even accidentally making eye contact for a split second would send me running to the rest room…and not to rest. I might not be able to control my anger at the politicrap he spews.
13An after dinner apertif with Teddy in his smoking jacket doesn’t trip anyone’s trigger?
14Shiver. I do not want to be seen in the same vicinity of Ted Cruz, with or without family, same as I always have avoided running into Rick Perry. Blech.
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