WHY TED CRUZ IS THE MOST FRIGHTENING OF ALL THE GOP CANDIDATES

….The “King of Falsehoods”, Senator Ted Cruz

 

Both Cruz and Trump claim they want to run the nation like a dictator.

 

I have not mentioned Senator Ted Cruz very often in my political Blog.  But with him climbing in the polls, perhaps it’s time to give him a “look-see”.

 

The political fact checking operation, PolitiFACT, has a track record on Cruz for publicly-asserted falsehoods that is the second-highest among GOP candidates.  So far, 56% of all of Ted Cruz’ statements are declared partially or totally false.  What is also interesting is that the only other contender with a higher falsehood rating is Dr. Ben Carson, who has a “Pants on Fire” falsehood history, which results mainly from his time in the national spotlight saying that “people choose to be gay”.

 

But now, Ted has stepped in it again, with his disgusting remarks and his joke about Vice President Joe Biden.

 

As most people are aware, Joe Biden has suffered far more tragedy than anyone should ever have to endure in a lifetime. In 1972, just weeks after he winning his first election to the Senate, Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter were killed by a drunk-driver in a horrible car accident. And last year, his 46-year-old son Beau, who survived that same accident, died of brain cancer.

 

So, what does the Texas Junior Senator have to say as the Vice President’s son was lying in state and waiting to be buried?  (By-the-way, a vice president that is not running against the senator and is in his last position as a politician.)

 

Well, Ted Cruz, with his very poor timing, decided to tell a joke about the vice president:

 

Per the Texas Senator:

 

"You know, the nice thing [with Joe Biden]. You don't need a punchline. I promise you it works. At the next party you're at, just walk up to someone and say, 'Vice President Joe Biden,' and just close your mouth. They will crack up laughing."

 

Before Cruz was forced to apologize, reporter Chad Livengood confronted him about his horrid joke.  Ted’s reaction was totally disgusting:

 

*Livengood: Could you talk about the vice president losing his son this week?

 

*Cruz: Heartbreaking and tragic, and our prayers are very much with Vice President Biden, with Jill. It's a tragedy no one should have to endure.

 

*Livengood: Then why'd you tell a joke about the vice president tonight?

 

*Cruz: Uh .... [He just walks away]

 

Cruz could have apologized right then and there, but instead, he grunted, smirked, and skulked off. It wasn't until the story blew up later that he said he was sorry.

 

Joe Biden has spoken as eloquently about personal grief as anyone ever could, because he's the member of a tragic club no one should have to belong. That Biden has to share public life with a detestable creature like Cruz is an insult to every one of us, but especially those who have known tragedy first-hand.

 

But these aren’t the only reasons to not support the junior senator.

 

Here’s just a short list of some of those reasons:

– Ted Cruz voted against legislation that would have shifted some of the expense of climate change from the American public to the polluting corporations.

– Ted Cruz claims that there has been no global warming over the last 17 years.

– Ted Cruz voted to double the interest rates students pay on their college loans.

– Ted Cruz wants to privatize Social Security.

 

– Ted Cruz chose to give his opening campaign speech at a university that teaches its students that the planet Earth is 6,000 years old and that evolution is a hoax.

– Ted Cruz introduced legislation to reduce worker pay, driving income down by paying workers below the local prevailing wages.

– Ted Cruz says that Islamic Sharia law is being imposed on communities by the government across the United States, but offering no proof.

– Ted Cruz introduced legislation to create an unequal marriage system, in which Americans married in one state could have their legal rights denied in other states.

– Ted Cruz wants to dramatically increase Pentagon spending, but no way to pay for it.

– Ted Cruz seeks to use the power of the federal government to promote his own religious beliefs

– Ted Cruz voted against confirming a leader to administrate Medicare and Medicaid services, even though the nominee had the support of both Republican and Democratic Senators.

– Ted Cruz supports national “stand your ground” laws that enable people to legally shoot each other with guns with alarmingly low standards of evidence of any threat.

– Ted Cruz wants the federal government to sell off national parks to private landowners to be used for ranching and mining operations.

And Ted Cruz believes that God has called him to politics. After all, the only way to top, the shutting down of the government, is to try running the government into the ground all by himself.

 

When Cruz puts out his list of political whoppers, one might wonder if Cruz is just looking at a different set of data. But after listening to Cruz telling his whoppers, it just confirms that Cruz isn’t looking at different data, Cruz is living in a different universe.

 

As an example, multiple news organizations have found major problems with a standard refrain from his stump speech: “There are 110,000 agents at the IRS. We need to put a padlock on that building and take every one of those 110,000 agents and put them on our southern border.”

 

First of all, there are not 110,000 agents at the IRS. There aren’t even 110,000 IRS employees. There are a total of about 82,000 employees, of whom about 14,000 are agents.

 

Delusions like this may explain almost everything Ted Cruz does.

 

That might explain Cruz’s misguided belief that a giant swath of Americans want to repeal Obamacare. That’s not true.  It would explain his quixotic crusade against the country’s growing support for marriage equality. It would make sense, even, of his current run for the presidency.

 

To be fair, most politicians who run for president have some strain of the same megalomania that has infected Cruz. Almost every politician who runs for president needs to have a giant ego like looking in a funhouse mirror.

 

But most successful politicians seem to support their self-importance with real and honest data. Obama’s 2008 victory over the then inevitable Hillary Clinton is often painted in terms of pure marketing.  But the reality was that it was hard work and number-crunching that made the difference in the nitty-gritty days of the final elections.

 

Ted Cruz continues to say, with a straight face, for everyone he’s running against, to “tell the truth”. 

 

But the reality is, don’t expect the real Ted Cruz to be very honest to you, especially about himself.

 

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