The New York Times has an interesting story this morning:

The leader of a white supremacist group that has been linked to Dylann Roof, the suspect in the murder of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, including those of 2016 presidential contenders such as Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul, records show.

Cruz told the NYTimes last night that he would return the donation. Earl Holt III, of Texas of course, says he’s the leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens, but I suspect the correct spelling is Kouncil of Konservative Kitizens.

Dylann Roof says that Holt’s website is where he got his ideas about his fellow Americans.  Holt seems pretty proud of that, saying, “it was one of the few that had the courage to disclose “the seemingly endless incidents involving black-on-white murder.”

Now you’re asking me how in the world would Ted Cruz know that Holt is a racist sumbitch?  Well, to start with he has a website preaching hate and, secondly, he lists his occupation on his donation as “slumlord.”  Seriously.

A note to Ted Cruz:  Your only purpose in running for President is to feed your ego and embarrass Texas.  We already have Rick Perry for that.  Go home, Ted.

Ted Cruz thinks we’re all laughing with him, not at him.

Bless his heart.

Remember when Cruz made jokes about Joe Biden the day Biden was burying his son?  Apparently, that was just his warm-up act.

Well, Mr. Screw-Compassion-I’m-Here-For-the-Kill decided that last night was the perfect time for gun control jokes.

“You know the great thing about the state of Iowa is, I’m pretty sure you all define gun control the same way we do in Texas — hitting what you aim at,” Cruz said at a town hall meeting Friday in Red Oak.

There’s another joke here in Texas.  We say, “He’s so mean that he’s talk about ropes in the home of a man who had just been hung.”  Bingo.

Ted goes on.

“My wife, Heidi, who is a petite, 5’2 California blonde, she was standing at the tripod unloading the full machine gun with a pink baseball cap that said ‘armed and fabulous,'” he said.

He also visited a firing range yesterday where the only statement he made about Charleston was that President Obama should stop politicizing it.  Oh, and that we should use the death penalty for Roof.  That’s it.  That’s his statement.  Obama should quit dividing America and black people should stop all this silly bleeding to death in their churches.

I hate this man.  Lord help me, I do.

Ted Cruz is not fond of background checks for toting firearms around.  In fact, he works hard against them.

Unless……

…. you have a gun near him.

It’s a No-Shoot Sweepstakes unless you’re willing to undergo a background check.  Read the rules.

Promotion Rules. One (1) potential winner will be selected by a random drawing from all eligible entries to be held at the Cruz for President headquarters on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Sponsor may, at its option, conduct a background check on each potential winner. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any potential winner from receiving the Prize based on such background check if Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion that awarding the Prize to such potential winner could result in a safety or security risk to any person or persons or could result in the disruption of any event associated with the Promotion. Sponsor will, in its sole discretion, then select one (1) winner from the list of eligible potential winners on the basis of criteria determined and applied by Sponsor to provide for an appropriate range of views, backgrounds, and interests among the winners selected.

So you have to have “appropriate” views, background, and interest.

Here’s my question:  Why don’t those same rules apply to Ted Cruz?  There is not one damn thing about Ted Cruz that is appropriate.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

Okay, there’s this.

Yeah, no joke.  All the paperwork is in PDF format right here.  Of course, you gotta be a little tad curious about why a guy in Pennsylvania has his bank in San Antonio, Texas.  Oh sure, there’s no coordination going on at all.

Hummm …. Fairy for Perry?  Tushes for Bushes?  Tree Stump for Trump?

Oh hell, this is getting better than recess in heaven.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what your political beliefs, you have to ache for Vice President Biden and his family.

Wait, I was wrong.  It does indeed matter who you are.

Texas Republican Senator and excruciatingly mean man Ted Cruz, made a joke about Joe Biden on the night before his son’s funeral.  This alone is proof to me that Cruz is some kind of damn vampire or something.

But the fact that he had to wait for blowback to apologize is proof that he’s a damn loathsome vampire or something.

Detroit News reporter Chad Livengood tweeted —

Livengood said on Twitter that when he asked Cruz after the event why he joked about Biden, given the timing, Cruz simply “turned and walked away.”

There’s a tape of it.

Hours later, Cruz issued an apology after people noted that was pretty damn classless.

Yeah, we need a president who has to go around apologizing for being a damn slow loathsome vampire.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.