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The Texas junior senator again opens mouth / inserts foot.

There is a current individual running for the 2016 Republican nomination that personifies the following statement.  And he does it much more than any of the other 20 or so potential GOP candidates: This person is “a person falsely claiming to have special abilities or special knowledge”.  This of course is the definition of a true “charlatan”.

Although, virtually all of the potential GOP nominees do fit that definition in specific areas, such as those that continue to deny “climate change” and those that still think the “Invading Iraq was the right thing to do”.  But this is one individual breaks the bank in being a true charlatan.

That individual is the junior senator from the current very wet state of Texas, Ted Cruz.

This US Senator has no shame in being a complete charlatan opportunist.

This all started when Cruz was making it known that he was probably going to run in the 2016 presidential election.  At that point, Cruz took his party’s super-hawk position and stated that, “The U.S. policy in the Middle East is a mess because of the weakness of President Obama.  In particular, Obama’s failure to enforce his own “red line” after the Syrian regime used chemical weapons.”

Now granted, as stated above, there were a lot of people on both sides of the aisle that at the time, they agreed with this statement by Cruz.

Cruz then followed that statement up when he appeared on ABC News stating that, “A critical reason for [Vladimir] Putin’s aggression has been President Obama’s weakness.  You’d better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.”

This Republican really took his stand against the current president, who by-the-way, is not running again for any office in 2016, but Cruz definitely had a focus on going after the current Democratic head of state.

So, what’s so false about all of these statements?  The senator and a lot of others in congress also felt that way.

Well, what happened was that the Texas senator decided to change his approach against the president when he began declaring that bombing Syria would make the United States “al Qaeda’s air force.”

Yes, after publically berating the president for “not enforcing his own red line”, he did a 180° turn and said that bombing Syria would virtually make the US an ally of al Qaeda.

In fact, US Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who served three tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan as a US Air Force pilot.   This US Representative was one of a small group of House Republicans that wanted to give Obama authority to bomb Syria in 2013.  However, this group disappeared when Cruz began declaring that bombing the Syrian regime would make the US, “al Qaeda’s air force.”

Rep. Kinzinger said, “I think Ted Cruz bears some responsibility for not enforcing the red line.” Kinzinger told the Washington Post OpEd writer, Dana Milbank, “The Republican support began crumbling the more Cruz spoke. His words implied that anyone who voted for strikes would be acting as an agent of al-Qaeda.”

I have written before that at one time Ted Cruz was just a very ambitious staffer in the George W. Bush administration.  At that time, there was no Tea Party and isolationism was fairly strong in the GOP with just a few super hawks making all the noise.  But when the Tea Party became a reality, Mr. Cruz decided he would become a Tea Party ideologue

Milbank has also written, “Even Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the leading voice of isolationism in the GOP presidential field, [who] disavows that label now and has gone from saying there is not “clear-cut American interest” in fighting the Islamic State to saying he would vote to do so “in a heartbeat.”

Many of the Republican candidates are starting to change their stripes and are moving to being hawks and war mongers.  Even Politico’s Michael Crowley observed last week, “Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), now trying to establish himself as the “leading hawk” among the presidential contenders, was also opposed to bombing Syria after Obama left the question to Congress in 2013. But he wasn’t as instrumental as Cruz in denying Obama congressional support.”

In other words, there is no change in the approach of the Republican party.  If Obama supports it, the GOP is against it, regardless of whether they were previously for it.  They have no shame and they have no real answers beyond using the word “no”.

So far, all the GOP candidates are running true to form.  They have no creed to live by except that every American is on their own and as Republicans, they only move in whatever direction the wind is blowing.  (They always keep a close eye on the political weather vane.)

God forbid that they should have a truly independent idea.

I’m having problems wondering why these people are even able to get someone to vote for them.   It’s amazing!!!!

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