DUCK DYNASTY’S ROBINSON: A PERFECT EXAMPLE FOR THE TED CRUZ CAMPAIGN
…Phil Robinson: Before & After
Phil Robinson is a big phony, but so
is Ted Cruz
I have
purposely tried to stay away from mentioning Phil Robinson in this election
season. You know, the scrubby,
full-bearded star of the Duck Dynasty TV program.
Even when
Robinson appeared at the CPAC
conference, I avoided his televised appearance and listening to his droning
speech.
But this phony
evangelist finally did something that goes against all the rules, especially
for someone that tries to sell themselves as a born-again evangelist.
As if Texas
Senator Cruz couldn’t get more ridiculous, now the bearded one is stumping
for the conservative Texan.
The reality is
that any time Robertson tells you he’s speaking for someone else, he’s
basically just promoting himself.
In his latest
stump speech for Senator Cruz at a recent rally, Robinson tried and failed to
properly quote something that our nation’s founder, Thomas Jefferson said some
240 years ago.
Robinson says
he is fully quoting Jefferson when he states, “Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a
conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble,”
Then Robinson continues that he also trembles for God like Jefferson did 240
years ago. Robinson then asks: “Why are
you so afraid, Mr. Jefferson?” He
then continues with the Jefferson quote: “I
tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot
sleep forever.”
So, we are to
believe that like Thomas Jefferson was trembling about God, so is
Robinson. However, the real quote from
Jefferson is actually about the institution of American slavery.
The complete
quote taken from the Jefferson Memorial is as follows. "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can
the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that
these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce
between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the
book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish a law for educating
the common people. This it is the business of the state and on a general
plan."
After Robinson
had massacred the Jefferson quote, he then rambled on about Moses and the Ten Commandments. As someone attending the Cruz rally later
stated, “That guy doesn’t have any
charisma—he’s basically old-school, cartoon insane.” That pretty much says it all in a nut shell.
So is this
what Ted Cruz needs to have a successful campaign? I think not.
But what’s
worse, Cruz then asked the rally attendees the following question: “Just as a thought experiment, how about Phil
[Robinson] as ambassador to the United Nations? How much would you pay to see
the Russian ambassador’s face when Phil says, “What is wrong with you people?”
There is now a
YouTube video available of Ted Cruz
talking up Phil Robinson and his love of Jesus and pandering to Robinson’s duck
hunting shooting ability. It also shows
Cruz asking the attendees the above question about the United Nations.
But when
Robinson starts talking about things like “you
must honoring thy parents” and
always “marry a clean woman,” it
becomes obvious that this is not a guy that Ted Cruz needs for his
campaign. And this is especially true
when it is so simple to Google Phil
Robinson and see not-so-long-ago past pictures of the clean shaven Robinson,
along with his golf clubs and wearing short sleeve Polo shirts.
The Duck
Dynasty character is doing exactly what Ted Cruz is also trying to do
in fooling all the right-wing American evangelists.
And remember,
Ted Cruz was not that long ago just like all the other establishment
Republicans wearing their 5th Avenue suites and highly polished Florsheim wing-tips.
Cruz and Robinson and his
campaign are nothing but one huge scam.
Copyright G.Ater 2016
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