Oh Be Still My Heart!
As you know, both Ted Cruz and Rick Perry are spending more time in Iowa than Texas. I’m not complaining. In fact, I feel a little blessed that they both switched out of cowboy boots and into fly-over clothes.
Apparently, the Republicans in Iowa think the Texas Twins are a boatload of whoopee. Especially the one who can talk for 21 hours and say diddle squat.
And the latest news is that some Republicans in Iowa are talking about Ted.
The lengthy Senate speech “only confirmed to me as an Iowa activist that this man has what it takes to run for president,” said Jamie Johnson, a member of the state GOP central committee who was state chairman of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s winning 2012 caucus campaign.
Hell, yeah, Jamie Johnson! You propelled Santorum to stardom as well as Cruz’s speech accomplished … well, anything at all. You two guys deserve each other.
Yep, he can pick ’em. Probably going to be just as successful.
1I’m so hoping they’ll run Cruz. That will be the death knell of the GOP.
2The Twelfth Amendment says the President and Vice-President cannot come from the same State, so one of those Bozos will have to defer to the other. But until they choose, campaigning against each other will be a waste of money, something Republicans seem to be especially good at nowadays.
3I think I just heard some bells tolling … oh wait, it is Sunday! Cruz and Perry … the Dynamic Duo … Ugh!! The GOP will, hopefully, strangle on these idiots!!
4The 12th Amendment doesn’t apply to Republicans any more. Although Cheney’s official residence was in Texas (as was Dubya’s), Cheney just bought a house in Wyoming, where he was born, and claimed that was his official residence.
5If the Senate speech convinced Jamie Johnson that Ted Cruz would make a good president, why don’t we just elect Dr. Seuss and leave out the middle man?
6Has what it takes to run for president…. Yeah, he can flap his gums for 21 hours, completely miss the point of a children’s introductory reader, and then vote (along with all 99 other senators) FOR the thing he claimed he was trying to stop. But he got a lot of publicity, which is all he cares about.
We need Molly Ivins to remind us, as she did with Dubya, “Next time I tell you not to vote for a candidate from Texas, pay attention!”
7You would think people in farm country would have little trouble recognizing two piles of manure
8This mornings’ commentors (1-8) are right up there with the late night comedy writers! Thanks for a morning giggle in stating the obvious & the ironic humor (albeit scary) on this subject.
9It’s a dream come true. But poor Rick is just meat on a spit. Any list of three things turns into a Rick Perry joke. Ted is the one to watch. Being responsible for a 14% approval rating for the tea baggers proves that he is Presidential material.
10Dumb and Dumber!
11Yuk.
12As they say in France, duhh!
13They sure know how to pick corn in Iowa.
14The two of them can get as nasty as they think they can get away with and like a couple of evenly matched bulls fighting for dominance, they can push, sweat, and tremble for a very long time while giving no ground. Popcorn, please.
15Yeah, well, “running for President” just ain’t the same as “being President.” Perhaps they’ll explode when their egos get over-pumped. Wouldn’t that be lovely?
16Cruz went pheasant molesting with t-bagger deluxe redux-“Cantaloupe Calves” King. Cruz was decked out in camo and cowboy boots. Pheasants laughed at his phoney ass so hard they choked to death. They even had a circle jer….er…I mean a preyer circle hoping no one would get “Cheneyed”. No one,including pheasants, got shot,according to Cruz who has already filed suit suing pheasants forever for making birds smarter than t-baggers. I made the last part up.(about the lawsuit) everyone already knows game birds are smarter than Steve King.
17Sam in Kyle- when us iowans is surrounded by massive hog and cattle confinements and when the manure produced is reckoned in the millions of gallons(storage pits under and outside are huge and stinky),the only faculty one needs to identify such stuff is your olfactory-nose holes. Eyes water and burn too much to be of use. Tankers haul 10s of thousands of gallons at a time to be knifed into ground(right) to alleviate the odor. In winter,they blow the stuff on top of the ground and let it runoff into waterways in the spring.
18I can’t recall if I read this line here or somewhere else (I suffer from some-timers). Anyway, the writer said something to the effect of the GOP throwing up Ted Cruz as its 2016 Presidential candidate, guarantees Hilary 8 years.
19There is only one fly in all of this hilarious ointment. For several years now, with the republican and tea party misinformation, lies, and fabrications increasing daily, I have followed the advice of many friends and some relatives which was, ” oh, don’t get bent out of shape ! This, too, will pass. Just delete it and forget about it.” And I did that for a while. I also found great pleasure in laughing at a lot of it along with Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow. But the truth is that , like the frog in the water that is slowly being brought to a boil, I should have noticed that this was not going to pass, it was not going away, and I should have responded to every message I received. Some of these people like Ted Cruz could conceivably win elections in many states and for many offices if those of us who are laughing don’t get serious and start responding to the lies and turning out the vote.This is our future we are laughing off.
20Yep. Google koch brothers experimenting with north carolina.
FRI MAY 17, 2013 AT 03:00 PM PDT
21NC-Sen: Kay Hagan (D), “Koch Bros. have turned NC into an experiment in extremist politics” then google
Ted Cruz Koch brothers. Cruz is taking on the FCC. (NYT.)
I can see the advantage of hiding our heads. News is bizarre. HOWEVER we gotta get out the vote. I believe we also need to find moderate folks who are independent and sit down and just visit with them, find out what they believe, what they think the solutions are. You probably will agree with some and not others but at least we might accomplish something important.
22Brothers in Christian Dominionism. They can’t be both “Kings” according to Ted Cruz’s father Rafael.
23Another annoying thing about Cruz is those sad-face eyebrows. I dunno if they’re natural or induced…we’d have to look through his ancestors’ photos to find out and I’d rather count bacterial colonies on an overgrown Petri dish using a microscope with a flickering light…but they give him that air of smug sorrow….”So sorry, so sorry, but yes, you ARE doomed.”
24The 12th Amendment doesn’t say that, exactly. It says “The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves;”
25So this affects only electors from Texas; an elector can vote for one, but not the other; conceivably Cruz and Perry could win if they were willing to give up half of Texas’ electoral votes. That’s a pretty big hypothetical, though.
They laughed at Hitler in the beginning, too…but that’s my fear because I’m Jewish…and white supremacy bigots really, “Can I hear an “AMEN”, really, hate the Jews…so I see the racial hatred, spilling into the rhetoric, all because My President is a half white man, therefore impure, and the clueless laughter makes me shudder, because it just wasn’t that long ago that the oven doors were closed on my family’s grandparents and great uncles and aunts…and it’s coming at us again, an American flag wrapped around a cross–that might just get burned on my front lawn…
26@ Elise: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” — Sinclair Lewis
@ Ellen Childress re “ignore them and they’ll go away”– that’s what I thought about Dubya.
27That image of Rick Perry is really flattering; it makes him look about 75 IQ points higher than he actually is…
And the image of Ted Cruz?… coming in at about 25 IQ points lower than a thrice -used tea bag, I would say his intellectual acuity is somewhere around the prickly end of that manure fork.
28It is possible that Cruz has what it takes to be President–just not of the United States. Or of anything important. Or anything that requires governing.
29Not to be a stick in the mud,but a three tine fork is for pitching hay,not poli-speak. Manure forks have considerably more tines. You want futility,try pitching manure with a hay fork.
30Elise, agreed! These Dominionist Pea Tardy people use the gospels the same way Hitler did. Frankly, I don’t care how many bricks I get thrown at me for that cuz hellspitandamn you can look at the old newsfilms of the Third Reich and see what I mean: historical fact.
31The adherents of Christian Dominionism have anointed their King to lead them to victory in the great battle…
Conservative activists compared Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to Jesus Christ during an event Friday, earning a chorus of amens from the audience of Iowa Republicans.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/28/gop-event-hails-superhero-ted-cruz-as-right-wing-jesus/
32Elise, you are on point, but the targets of such hate are not limited to ethnicity. Anyone who disagrees with their “righteous crusade” will be in their crosshairs. We should all be very afraid of this thinly-veiled attack on American freedoms.
33Speaking of bat** crazy interpretation of the bible, try this (courtesy of Immoral Minority and Opposing Views): “Ted Cruz’s father believes his son was anointed by God to be a ‘king”‘who would ‘go to war, win the war, and bring the spoils of war’ home to the evangelicals like himself.”
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/10/ted-cruzs-father-believes-his-son-was.html
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