NYT Columnist: Ted Cruz Is Like a 'Menacing, Stalking, Relentless' Horror Movie Villain

News Busters ^ | October 22, 2015 | Tim Graham

[Isara]

Bruni accurately noted that "Dubya" rarely adds any opinion on current events or leaders in his post-presidency, and yet he was quoted attacking Cruz at a fundraiser for his brother Jeb. “I just don’t like the guy.”

I think a great many Americans — including a majority of Cruz’s colleagues in Congress — know exactly how he feels.

But there’s no solace in his words. Quite the opposite. He wouldn’t have felt compelled to utter them if Cruz wasn’t a possible factor in the race — if he wasn’t a menacing, stalking, relentless force to watch for and run from, like the body-hopping spirit in this year’s most celebrated horror movie, It Follows.

In fact Bush’s remarks at the fund-raiser apparently included a heads-up about Cruz’s potency, especially in primaries across the South.

Like most liberals, Bruni acts appalled that two amateurs are dominating the pre-primary polls, which seems like a bit of an act, considering the loathing for Senator Cruz. "The slow torture of the Republican primary knows no limit. First Donald Trump turns it into a carnival, then Ben Carson comes along with his insanity about the Holocaust and guns. Between them they own nearly 50 percent of the Republican vote, according to recent national surveys."

Bruni laid into Cruz in much the same way that "conservative" Jennifer Rubin does, that everything he does to stand against Obamacare or a ballooning national debt is a pose, not a serious policy position.

He’s the patron saint of lost causes, at least if they bring the spotlight his way. In that sense he’s emblematic of the flamboyantly uncompromising comrades in the so-called Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives, who similarly confuse attention with accomplishment.

All of them, with Cruz as their spiritual leader, have turned petulance into a theory of governing, or rather anti-governing, as they breezily disregard the contradiction of their ravenous lunge to become monarchs of a kingdom that they supposedly want to topple, to gain power over a system that they ostensibly intend to enfeeble.

Cruz doesn’t propose remedies. He performs rants. He’s not interested in collaboration or teamwork. His main use for other politicians, even in his party, is as foils and targets.

When the media's democratic socialists get arrogant, they think anyone who opposes their vision of gargantuan government is "anti-governing." They don't think Democrats exercising a "nuclear option" or filibuster or an obstruction based on liberal principles is ever "anti-governing." Bruni concluded:

Keep that in mind when he rails against the establishment and the elites. And remember that when someone is as broadly and profoundly disliked as Cruz is, it’s usually not because he’s a principled truth teller.

It’s because he’s frightening.

[Isara]

Booo!

[Rodamala]

MU HA HA HAaaaaaaa

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Gimme a break.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Like Trump, Cruz has all the right enemies.

I'm rooting for 8 years of Trump with Cruz as his VP, followed by 8 years of Cruz as President.

[Isara]

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[G Larry]

As opposed to the Dem’s modern day Mussolini?

[catbertz]

I would like all of our enemies to feel that same sense of dread, and hear the Darth Vader theme music when he approaches :)

[Vision Thing]

It’s their Uniparty, and they can cry if they want to.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“It’s their Uniparty, and they can cry if they want to.”

When the top 3 vote getters are comprised of a solid conservative, and 2 people who have never held political office, I wish the traitorous “Uniparty” luck. They are on the way to obscurity, and faster than they could ever imagine.

[MUDDOG]

Teddy Cruzer.

[itsahoot]

I'm rooting for 8 years of Trump with Cruz as his VP, followed by 8 years of Cruz as President.

Were you rooting for Ryan as Speaker? It doesn't matter one whit what we want, we have a Royal class much stronger than any monarchy.

[Army Air Corps]

Cruz Ping.

They’re afeared. Powerful afeared.

[DoughtyOne]

Corrected:

NYT Columnist: Ted Cruz Is Like a ‘Menacing, Stalking, Relentless’ Movie Hero After the Bad Guys...

[cripplecreek]

[CyberAnt]

MILLIONS OF DITTOS .. I TOTALLY AGREE.

IF WE WANT AMERICA BACK TO THE GREAT COUNTRY SHE WAS .. WE NEED TO PLACE THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN OFFICE.

AND .. THE NYT HAS ONLY ONE GOAL IN LIFE .. TO BESMIRCH ANYBODY WITH AN “R” AFTER THEIR NAME.

Trump and Cruz are just the most visible and will give the writer the most readers ..???? Didn’t anybody else figure that out.

I mean really .. why talk about any of the other candidates .. nobody cares.

[Ohioan]

The fanaticism of the indoctrinated pseudo-intellectual is often something to behold.

That Ted Cruz understands, and thus supports, the wise counsel of the founders of America as an ongoing legal & ethnic concept, is unforgivable to the clueless journalist.

As the dumbing down of American letters becomes ever more obvious, the rage of those who simply do not understand what America is all about, grows ever more frenzied.

[OpusatFR]

Dear heavens, isn’t this just the most precious, hyperbolic little rant?

Liberals are on the same page as teensy, weensy, itty, bitty four year olds on the playground.

I fully expect, “You’re a Poo-Poo Head” to make headline news at the Times tomorrow.

[mojito]

Frank Bruni is the sodomite former restaurant critic of the NY Slimes who got “promoted” to political columnist.

If you value the insights of a sodomite former restaurant critic, then Frank Bruni is your man.

[blackdog]

What do you call 552 Menacing, Stalking, Relentless' Horror Movie Villains?

An effective legislature for the people they represent. One is a start!

[HiTech RedNeck]

WOW, you sure know how to deflect responsibility. You post it you own it.