Whoa, Cowboy! Pull In On Them Reins!
“I am shocked, just shocked that Ted Cruz wants to run for President,” said no one. Ever.
So they’ve run it up the flagpole.
And some in the conservative movement are already talking him up as a potential 2016 presidential candidate.
“It is an undercurrent and growing,” said Texas GOP consultant Bill Miller. “Most observers believe he is moving very fast toward a much higher visibility. The presidential buzz has begun in earnest.”
Jeff Judson, a major tea party figure in the Lone Star State and a Cruz booster, said the movement is totally organic and not emanating from Cruz or his staff.
Yeah, totally organic. Completely organic. You know what an organic fertilizer is, right? Hey, Cruz has a whole lot of that.
Birthers? Hummm … where are the birthers? Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. I guess Kenya is like a whole different “foreign country” than Canada. If Barack Obama was born in Kenya to an American mother, he cannot be President, but there’s one of those Papal dispensation for Canada?
Good Lord, a Fidel shirt and a hockey stick in the White House? I am certain that rightwing will be mortified at the thought.
Thanks to Andrea for the heads up.
this guy just creeps me out..something there but can’t put my finger on it..by the way, i love your blog..
1Do these GOP soothsayers realize what the act of trotting out the likes of a Ted Cruz says about the abysmal quality of all the other so-called Republican contenders?
2Please let him be the best they can do!
3Undercurrent or undertow?
4Well, the contest between Carnival Cruz and Icky Ricky over who gets to be the “Texas” candidate in the Republican primary would be amusing. Rude and Crude.
5Jon Stewart must be licking his lips.
6You won’t hear a peep out of the birther crowd. Cruz has a different pigmentation in his epidermus.
7Let’s make it completely impossible and add Arnold Schwarzenegger to the ticket as VP. It’s the Tea Party, so clearly they’re all for the Constitution, but missed that pesky requirement about the prez being a natural born citizen. Or maybe because his “movement is totally organic,” they figure that’s natural enough.
8@Charlene – You’re right. There just seems to be something very off about this guy. He’s got a decidedly doughy look about him. Which is quite a feat as doughy and slimey usually don’t go together.
9With any luck Cruz will help roil the waters during the Rethugs primaries and the ship will founder.
10“moving very fast toward a much higher visibility”
Ted, Ted, Ted. This is not necessarily a *good* thing.
11I’m with charlene and publius bolonius (great moniker, btw) – Cruz is creepy. There’s something about the very look of him, and the oddly paced way of speaking.
It’s like he’s a bad actor, and there’s something about that face tells me he’d be cast as the creepy stalker, or the devout preacher who’s a secret sadist, or the guy who’s face gets ripped off to reveal gears and motors. *shiver*
I know, he’s probably just a ordinary human blowhard with a touch of megalomania, but eeewwwww!
12Oh Yes! Carnival Cruz for Pres in 2016: A bad trip for the entire Repoobican party!!!!
(Giggle) Cruz vs Hilary! Hot diggity dawg!
13Yikes!! I predict a year from now, Cruz will be just another GOP has-been thrown under the bus by all the other wackos!
14Well, they are following the winning (not so much) wingnut strategy. . . .They’d have the presidency, the senate and the house by one hundred more reps—–if only they were only MORE conservative and crazy. You know, like Ted.
15He is being set up as a foil to make Rubio look like the sane one. It’s a tough job.
16If Cruz wins I’m moving to Canada.
17When I look at his picture (like the one above), I keep thinking of those Charley McCarthy, Jerry Mahoney, Mortimer Snerd puppets…something about his mouth makes me think there’s a hand stuck back in there behind him somewhere.
Can we rename him Mortimer Snerd? It seems so right.
18Cruz for president? He can’t be the best they can come up with. George Bush Jr ignored the Constitution and they figure that it can be done again.
The Tea Party crowd thinks Hawaii is a foreign country. Canada did elect an idiot for PM. THAT’s where they made the connection…
19Thanks everybody! You really make my day. Ted Cruz for president? Really?!? He’s a junior nobody from (sorry, JJ) nowhere — in the grand political scheme. He will one day wend his way to nowhere land with the other crazies, God willing. Let’s all keep working to see that it comes to be so.
20Sister Artemis – “the guy who’s face gets ripped off to reveal gears and motors.” This sounds an awful lot like the Stepford Wives, except that Koch Brother built automatons like Cruz are programmed to be a reflection of their masters – vile, heartless, and without a soul.
21The GOP never cease to amaze: They build a Clown Car then they’re surprised when it fills with Clowns.
22Lynne, If you want to compare him with a puppet how about Achmed the Dead Terrorist or Bubba J?
23If there is indeed a god in heaven he will so signify by giving us a Cruz/Paul ticket in 2016.
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