I Guess It Needed ‘Splainin’
Come to find out, Ted Cruz comes by crazy genetically. It’s DNA based wacko.
Speaking to an audience recently at the “Free the People” conference put on by the industry-financed tea party group FreedomWorks, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) explained how his ultra conservative worldview helped shape his son’s outlook on President Barack Obama’s policies, which the elder Cruz said are “just like the dictator Fidel Castro.”
Yep, President Obama is just like Fidel Castro. Well, except for the beard and that whole booming stock market thing. And seizing all church owned land. And maybe that government run single payer health care system. And the bloody revolution and the Bay of Pigs. And outliving every United States President since Eisenhower.
Hey, but other than that – exactly like Fidel Castro. Exactly.
Didn’t the elder Cruz at one time fight alongside Castro against Batista?
1Great, now there are two Cruz’s I can loath.
2And the Carnival Cruz continues…
3I wonder which American politician this latest cruzer would compare to the Mafia backers of Batista?
4Isn’t today the day that perry is supposed to make his statement?
And the story about his sister benefiting from the proposed abortion law is on different websites now.
5O.K., so you live in a little country run by a dictator. You have it pretty good.
All the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. You are “one of the few”. Life is good.
Everybody else is sort of…… “of the peasant class”.
Then along comes a revolution. Things change.
Don’t you just hate when that happens?
6Just as I suspected! Thank you Mr. Cruz for bringing us the truth!
7ACORN ….. TREE! Splains a lot.
8I really, really hate that picture of Carnival Cruz. It makes me want to walk up to him and slap the snot right out of him. Sorry, but it had to be said!
9Mike, I think you are right, I read somewhere that Cruz’ father
10spent his time trying to bomb buildings and throw molatov cocktails, all in support of Castro.
PS to above – The facts about Cruz senior is on ‘Raw Story’
11web site – he was a pro Castro revolutionary.
Don’t really know how to link it!
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/07/ted-cruzs-dad-explains-why-obama-is-just-like-fidel-castro/
12Kids either imitate parents/grandparents or rebel against them. Not sure which category Ted Cruz is in but whatever, I wish he were gone. Go poke around and find out who all the Koch Empire is supporting in the USA.
13Ted Cruz says the only legitimate way to get into the US is to wait patiently in the home country until one’s immigration status is completely approved. But in a story on NPR a couple of weeks ago, I’m sure I heard Papa Cruz mention that he had to bribe someone in the Cuban government to get an exit visa to come to the US. It doesn’t sound to me as if he waited patiently in his home country…
14Castro came to the US first in asking for help dealing with Batista, but the Good Republican conservatives in the Eisenhower administration — John Foster and Allan Dulles — did the bidding of Coca Cola and refused to step in or assist in any way. (sound familiar?)
15So Castro took “door Number 2” and asked for help from Nikita Khrushchev, who was happy to oblige. Isn’t that what you would have done?
Had the Dulles brothers done the right thing back then, Cuba would be an engine of capitalism and the Cruz clan would have never darkened our door.
The distinct smell of B.S. pervades the room whenever Rafael Cruz opens his mouth. Very much the aroma of like-father-like-son except that this old reprobate can rewrite events more than 50 years old to suit his purposes today. And who is there to challenge him? It’s not easy to get the real facts by checking them independently in Cuba, which continues as an authoritarian state with a strong secret police presence. All that Teddy seems to have learned from Rafael is a lack of ethics and moral compass.
16If Cruz elder thinks Obama is like Castro then is it intended as a complement?
17Here’s an excerpt from the NPR story from Rafael Cruz, the man of conviction who fought with Fidel Castro, then turned around and bribed the Batista government:
In an interview near his home outside Dallas, the elder Cruz says that as a teenager, he fought alongside Fidel Castro’s forces to overthrow Cuba’s U.S.-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista. He was caught by Batista’s forces, he says, and jailed and beaten before being released. It was 1957, and Cruz decided to get out of Cuba by applying to the University of Texas. Upon being admitted, he adds, he got a four-year student visa at the U.S. Consulate in Havana.
“Then the only other thing that I needed was an exit permit from the Batista government,” Cruz recalls. “A friend of the family, a lawyer friend of my father, basically bribed a Batista official to stamp my passport with an exit permit.”
18I guess the road apple doesn’t fall far from the horse’s patoot.
19jla and daChipster: If brevity is the soul of wit,
20then you’ve nailed it and Cruz.
The elder Cruz didn’t like Cuba, so he came to Texas. Moved to Canada. Back to the US. Didn’t like Batista, doesn’t like Castro, or Obama. He’s the geo-political version of the irritable old coot who lives down the block. You know, that guy who spends most of his time complaining he can’t find anything good to watch on TV.
21Papa Cruz conveniently forgets that if President Obama was really like Fidel Castro, neither he nor his son would have been able to make these comments. If Papa Cruz thinks most of us are crazy enough to vote his son into the WH, he’s nuts. The game Ted Cruz plays, plays well in some places, not so well in others. Not even everyone in TX likes his brand of politics, so it’s highly likely that many in America won’t either.
22I apologize. But every time I see a picture of Ted Cruz my gaydar registers “Closeted gay man.”
23What the heck is it with certain expatriates? They long to get into this country and fight hard to do so, but after awhile, even after obtaining citizenship and succeeding in life, they have nothing but the snarks for the land of the free. Pappy Cruz comes off as one of these snarkers and he has passed on that attitude to Junior. I still say that one of these days an old Kodak photo is going to materialize showing Pappy holding a Russian made weapon while wearing a Fidelisto uniform! Then all his snarks are definitely going to ricochet!
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