And By Next Week, It’ll Be In The Bargain Bin
In case you haven’t heard, Ted Cruz is running for President. The reason he’s doing it is to prove that Texas Republicans have a deep bench when there’s crazy involved.
So, he’s scheduled to speak at the Iowa Republican Party Reagan Dinner on October 25th. Tickets haven’t been selling like solid gold AR 15s with a food storage cartridge at a survivalist convention. Hell, they haven’t even been selling like underpants at a nudist camp. They ain’t been selling at all.
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That’s right, there’s a 25% discount for a ticket to hear Ted Cruz. I’ll bet ya my best pair of pink boots that by October 10th they’ll be paying people to come.
Hell, if you want to hear crazy, Glenn Beck is free and you can wear your wife beater t-shirt and drink your Pabst Blue Ribbon beer in peace with none of that praying crap involved.
Question. If Ted Cruz was in the woods and he fell over but nobody was there to hear it …. would four psychiatrists in Ames, Iowa, look at each other and say, “There’s been a great disturbance in the force”?
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up and John for the funny picture.
Hey, it’s a long time til October 25th. I have an idea. Get some super rich Dem or disgruntled GOPer to buy a case of them and then run them through a shredder.
1Reagan dinner…. I couldn’t stand the man when he was alive, but there would be some amusement in a zombie Reagan coming back to tell these rwnjs what he actually thought, because they’re even worse than he is. Though the information that his policies would hurt a million poor people went through Reagan’s head without touching anything on the trip, I had the feeling that, if he were shown ONE poor person, he actually would get out his wallet and give them something. Today’s GOP stars wouldn’t even do that. Not to mention their foaming hostility to anything that sounds like compromise.
2Tedster’s posse should take a tip from the Pakistanis. Whenever they needed a crowd for any reason they just went to the farthest villages with trucks, packed them in and then dumped them on the streets in Islamabad or wherever and paid them all a rupee or two. At this point, I think that is what it is going to take to get enough eyes on Tedster at that event.
I would also bet a nickle that its cancelled. Will Tedster get the hint? Anyone want to bet on that?
3Now if he was gonna wear the paisley bathrobe and I could get a 25% discount, I might could mosey on up to Iowa.
4And, John, that pic is great!
5If we have any water left in Texas by then, it will be good and if we don’t, well, it will get interesting.
6I still find it strange when the Christmas stuff goes on sale the day after Halloween.
It is equally strange that the 2016 Repub primary is starting before the 2014 electioneering gears up.
I have to wonder how much of the 2014 effort will be spent by potential candidates trying to undermine and destroy one another. Could be amusing.
7It would be nice if CO could pipe a whole lot of water down to Texas ’cause we got way more then we need up North of me.
It’s gonna be interesting to learn if anyone at all shows up for Ted’s Amateur Hour!!
8Looks like the Repug Party of Iowa and Paisley Cruz are gonna come up empty with this one. Oh, I guess his parents might buy tickets, but they were probably hoping to eat for free. So much for the “great conservative leader”.
9There was a guy working in the Republican Pary’s booth at the Fair on Saturday afternoon, sporting a tshirt that read, “Proud to be a Ted Cruz Whacko-Bird”. He and this 40-something female former veteran in jeans cut off to be short-shorts and some other red republican idiot tshirt were proudly telling folks who stopped at their booth that Obamacare isn’t law, so sign our petition to repeal it”. After 3 or 4 folks came down to our booth asking questions about whether or not it was law, and taking information from us on implementation, Oct 1st, yada yada, I went down there (about 4 booths away)…. and started to chat with them about their petition. Dumb, Delusional and Dingy comes to mind. Not even a basic knowledge of how a bill turns into law. Obviously never saw the President sign the bill infront of supporters, sponsors and a whole lot television cameras. Such rabid righwingers. Yep… Fox News watchers… gotta be.
Tried to have a conversation about how 1/4 of Texans have no health insurance at all, and that as taxpayers, they were picking up the bill when they showed up at the ER, and got a big rant on welfare mothers having babies and collecting their check every month… and how they were buying canned salmon, with food stamps, to feed their cats, on and on and on. Even swore she had seen someone use their foodstamp card in a liquor store.
The level of ignorance is simply unbelievable… the level of hatred and anger… astonishing.
10Maybe they can throw in copies of one of Sarah Palin’s books to help ticket sales
11Holy smoke, single tickets are $100 for dinner, $250 for reception / dinner and the “ability” to meet Congressman Cruz.
$1000 gets you a 30-minute personal briefing. Ick.
12Hell, when the tickets get down to 99% off, someone let me know. I’ll gather some Dem friends who want to take a road trip. Maybe they need a judge for their Jesse Helms look-a-like contest.
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