Want some Cheese With That Whine, Ted?
Y’all, this running for President stuff is haaaaaard.
I mean, you actually have to work.
Ted Cruz is not happy about this turn of events. He sent out a fundraising letter where he whined about all the hardships he’s enduring.
Cruz moans that he’s “sacrificing a great deal” to seek the White House. He has less time with his family. He and his wife Heidi, who until recently was a Goldman Sachs executive, are taking a financial hit because of the campaign. His personal time is encroached upon by campaign obligations. (“My days are no longer my own,” he grouses. “Days start before dawn and many times don’t end until early the next morning.”) And, perhaps worst of all, the food is lousy, and—OMG!—campaigning interferes with his sleep needs: “My runoff campaign for the Senate in 2012 took a toll, but now I’m sacrificing even more sleep with long nights and constant travel.”
Yes, I imagine it’s tough getting by on Ted’s $175,000 senate salary and his wife’s vacation time at Goldman Sachs.
I was fixing to whine that I’m upset about paying Ted’s salary for him not to do his job to represent me in the senate, but then I realized I’d be happy to pay for that.
Let me see here. We pay a private in the army $18,000 a year and a staff sergeant $28,000 – plus they sleep outside and have to carry their own luggage.
A school teacher in Abilene, Texas, makes about $45,000 a year – plus, they have to put up with your damn kids.
A minimum wage worker at Walmart makes $15,000 a year in Texas – plus, they don’t get health insurance or the senate dining room.
Let’s talk about sacrifices, Ted. Wanna do that?
Thanks to John for the heads up.
I hope the recipients of this whine-alert realize what a toad this guy is and throw the letter in the trash. Whiner Whiner. Imagine how he’d carry on if he were (groan) President, having to take those phone calls at 3am…… Idiot.
1Quick, someone call his father! It sounds like Teddie is running a quart low on the anointing oil.
2I totally agree, PattiCakes. And those pesky foreign folks always wanting him to do something for them!! And why can’t those people who don’t live in the United States of American just behave themselves? Jesus, who do they think he is? The President or something?
And how come the folks who DO live in the U.S.A. keep saying such nasty things about me and how come THEY aren’t behaving like I want them to? Oh, whine, whine, whine!
He’ll never be elected President and we’ll still have to listen to him whine about EVERYTHING!! Teddy Scruz is a pathetic, ugly, joke!!
3Easy way to end suffering – QUIT!
4St. Rafael D’Arc Cruz, tied to a styrofoam stake, with a fake fireplace log burning near his toes (not too close), Daddy Cruz thumping and whining in the background.
A modern martyr for Summer 2015.
Anybody give a ratsass?
Real tough dude Putin is laughing his patootie off.
5If this dipsheet had even a chance to be preznit (thank the FSM it ain’t gonna happen), Putie would wear Cruz’s sorry ass out just jerkin’ his tiny widdle chain (when it’s 3AM in DC it’s about lunchtime in Moscow, Vladmir could order up a little Chateau Cruz whine with his borscht just for grins).
Dear Sen. Crud: Poor baby! How terrible that your campaign for president, which you launched the moment you set foot in the Senate, is taking such a toll. Let me offer you a suggestion. Stop running for president! There! Isn’t that better? Now you can slip into your paisley bathrobe once again and relax. And Heidi can resume working at that well-paying goat farm. Don’t thank me. I’m just doing my job.
6When I was a Second Lieutenant in the USAF, my salary was $2,664, that was $222 a month! I only carried a 45 caliber pistol on paydays!
7I did get $47.88 a day for meals and when I performed a meal check for midnight breakfast, I paid only the same amount as a an E1.
Variation on Corinne Sabo’s theme: Nobody is forcing you, nor do most Americans want you to run for the Presidency. Donors don’t really appreciate your complaints even before you get the job (god willing, you won’t) so donations may eventually peter out and your economic reality may finally sink in. Pack your carpetbags and STFudgeU.
8So typical of a loser! Cannot understand why he is so in the dark about this. Must be that bubble he lives in. No mortgage on that I’ll bet!
9Came across an online acronym that seems to fit: WATB for “whiny-ass titty-baby.”
If he thinks this is hard, maybe he should ask someone who actually has, or has had, the job he wants how that works.
As Obama once said, “There are no easy answers to the questions that land on my desk. If there were, they would have been answered already.”
10Perhaps spending less time with his family is a hardship for poor Teddy, but it sure sounds like a good deal for the family.
11I think it’s very selfish (er, I mean selfless) of Ted to make these sacrifices in the name of trying to get a job he’d sell his soul for (if he had one).
12I doubt he’s spending less time with the wife and kids, after all, he lives in DC and they don’t. So if anything, I bet he makes pit stops back in Texas more often. And if he wants to be a ‘family guy,’ why is he running around the country 18 months before the election pandering for dollars? Ted, give it up. We don’t like you; we don’t trust you; and you are not going to even be the GOP nominee, no matter how many times God talks to Daddy.
13Cruz is such a whining TB! I taught high school in GA for 33 years, put with with all kinds of kids, mess from the state, administrators, parents, and the local BOE, and I never made more than $65,000 per year with a Master’s degree. If Little Teddy is whining at this point, I have my doubts that he’ll be able to last through the primary season.
Did anyone else notice he used the religious-based “sacrifice” appeal throughout the email?
I guess Papa Cruz told him to portray himself as the new “sacrificial lamb” in order to more easily deprive the gullible and weak-minded of their hard-earned cash.
14I would simply like to compliment everyone above me on this thread. You, as a group, have nicely summed up the issues that
15Baby Teddy is having trouble with and I think have offered some truly on-point suggestions. I sure hope he reads this blog.
Somebody got on the GOP national ticket without having to work for it, and she rode that sucker like a wave, but she couldn’t handle being governor of AK for a whole term. If Ted thinks this is too hard, maybe he should just up and quit and head for Fox News, where I won’t have to see his smirking face any more.
16Hey, it sounds like he might not be up for the whole President thing. Who knows what sort of strain on his schedule that could put on him?
17Let’s face it, running for President of the USA is an exercise in unbridled egotism, no matter who it is. There’s nothing more disgusting than a whining egotist.
18Poor, poor Teddy. You and Ann “This is hard” Romney should get together and have a pity party.
Oh, and Teddy, here’s a clue: If you can’t handle the job application (running for office) you probably can’t handle the job. Just sayin’.
19Aside from the whining, one can only hope that people remember the following regarding Ted Cruz, the real “trainwreck”–
20Green eggs and ham–a total waste of taxpayer money
Shutdown of the government over Obamacare –cost to taxpayer 27 billion dollars, give or take–and then went on to admit, he now has Obamacare–
A man who said “”The Second Amendment is your constitutional right
to serve as the ultimate check against government tyranny”
The man who said we need more men like Jesse Helms in the US Senate–
Who is this masked man????
Hope people will vote responsibly –there is something wrong here, certainly not qualities for being a world leader.
I cannot stand to look or listen to this man.
Could not do it with Gw or Cheney either.
I am a good judge of character and there is something really, really off with this man. Even other republicans don’t like him, so how bad is he?
I bet he has lots of skeletons in his closet.
21What idiot whines about the work he has to do, before an election and then asks for money?
What a self-centered schmuck.
22From what I’ve read this P.O.S can’t even show up to do his job where he was actually elected; why should someone even think he’d show up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? Well, I guess the food would be good, and the photo-ops in the Oval Office would be OK, not to mention the potential for speaking fees once he left office.
23What a waste of oxygen.
I do not want to hear any whining from anyone who throws their money away to help this lame whiner.
24Perhaps he should watch the movie “The Right Stuff” and realize he does not have it.
So does he think he will have MORE time if he was elected? What a whiny, cry baby, been too long on the government teet, elitest pig. He needs a good smack in the back of the head.
25“I weep for you”, the walrus said, “I deeply sympathize”….
26Poor Teddy, sounds like he’ll need a rest soon. I’ve got an idea for some R & R for him. If he’s still running by then that is, on Oct 31st quail hunting season starts. He should invite Darth Cheney to go quail hunting with him down on the Armstrong Ranch in Kenedy county. I’m sure that Sen Cruz could use his campaign funds to pay for everything. He could indulge in some nice “fun with guns” with Cheney and if he’s lucky, maybe he won’t get shot… heh heh heh. Just a thought! ;-}
27Well, my theory is that, if elected, he’d buy Duhbya’s ranch in Crawford, and take all those relaxing vacations there. Of course, he’d probably hire staff for the brush-clearing part.
This is what hapoens when you grow up so entitled that your family literally treats you as The Chosen One. Has he ever held a job outside of public office? I don’t think so.
28Tell him to go campaign at the various homeless shelters around the state. Oh, that’s right. He has to go to ALL the states. Heeheeheeheee. I think they all have homeless shelters. The bosses there might even make sure he had a bunk bed with a place to lock up his wallet, unless he got there too late for the drawing. He might oughta carry his own sleeping mat, but he’d only be allowed one or is it two bags of stuff. When you check in for the night, you can’t leave again till 6am when they boot you out to roam the streets all day, lugging your bag or two of stuff. You think we could convince his campaign to schedule that for his visits to cities?
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