Ted Cruz: Making Mitt Romney Look Like a Man of Abiding Convictions
The GOP nominee for the Texas Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison makes bologna look pure. Ted Cruz is an opportunistic self-promoter with absolutely no moral center and the ethics of a tomcat. And those are his good points.
Dana Milbank had an opportunity to meet Ted Cruz and came away with his Bullcorn Detector red lining.
Milbank is hoping that Cruz is just scamming the Tea party to get them to vote for him, and offers up this thought —
Maybe I’m kidding myself, but I prefer to believe Cruz is playing the tea party for his own gain. The Senate can tolerate an operator more easily than another ideologue.
The problem with that is that Cruz needs the Tea Party to be re-elected so he will vote their way and scream their soundbites and dig his heels in and pride himself on being Louie Gohmert’s voice in the Senate.
It doesn’t matter if he believes that crap or not. He will vote that crap.
And every single time Ted Cruz opens his mouth the crazy meter gets a jolt.
In 2004, John Kerry did the greatest service to his country by selecting an obscure young politician of color, running for the US Senate, though little known outside of his state, to speak at the Convention. Four years later, that young man accepted his Party’s nomination and became President of the United States.
Ted Cruz, this will NOT happen to you. Not ever. Never. Never. Never. I don’t know how you got a speaking slot at the RNC, and I don’t want to know because, just, eww.
But you’re joining a cavalcade of crazies, kooks and crooks, and bullies and liars on the podium:
Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, Rick Scott, and Scott Walker, to name a phew!
Basically no one remotely likable and/or sane is speaking there, except for Jeb and Condi, both of whom carry the unhappy baggage of 43.
What all this tells me is that Aug. 27-30 will be a bad time to be gay, a woman, non-Christian, intelligent or a minority in Tampa. Except in Ybor, of course, where if you are all of the above they will probably elect you queen.
But not you, Ted Cruz. Not you. No matter what you did to get a speaking spot.
1What an awful thing to say about tomcats. They may be a little bit frisky sexually (I suspect Cruz isn’t), but they don’t lie and they’ve never stolen a dime.
2Well, said, brother daChipster. Cruz will disappear into an unequalled gaggle of blatherskites and mountebanks.
3All I can say is, if Ted is just pretending to have Tea Bag Minty-Freshness, he’s really, really good at pretending.
4He gives me me just the tiniest little antenna tingle with his prissiness, but maybe it’s just my grouchy old attitude. I do think he is the consolation prize to the conservative Florida Cuban community for not having Rubio on the ticket. Here ya go…two glib young Cuban- Americans.
5PPhew it’s hot here! My gaydar is flashing red hot at the picture of Cruz!
6Ethics of a tomcat? My tomcat, Fortitude, is prepared to take very strong exception to that statement…
7I’ve been holding this back, but now that ya’ll bring it up – that smile of his has Definitely seen Ruby red Lipstick and some lip liner. I suspect it wouldn’t take too much digging to find some fishnets and a garter belt.
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