Will the Tea Party Abandon Ted Cruz Now That His Teen Pot Experimentation Has Been Exposed?

PJ Tatler ^ | February 4, 2015 | Paula Bolyard

[marron]

So now we're against LEGAL IMMIGRATION too?

Actually, I'm starting to question the sheer numbers.

But I understand that the easiest way a politician innoculates himself against a charge of being anti-immigrant is to promote himself as for expanded "legal" immigration.

Its a no-win subject. You are going to get pounded either way. He is against illegal immigration and is prepared to actually secure the border. To take the sting out, he says he'll help people come here legally, and he gets attacked for that too.

Some attacks are shape-shifting attacks. Whichever way you go, they'll attack from the other side. Jeb wants to essentially open the border, and Cruz is for H1B. I'm against expanding H1B, but it doesn't change my view of Cruz.

[Manic_Episode]

I thought “Tea” Party was a euphemism....

[SoConPubbie]

No, next childish question.

[Wolfie]

A simple case of no principles. Pot use is bad and deserves harsh punishment...unless OUR guy did it!

[Durus]

That simply isn't true. The reason people aren't going deeply into the sciences is because there isn't a lot of money in it compared to other careers. This is largely due to market control schemes colluded between corporations and Government such as the H-1b program.

[Timber Rattler]

Laughable. The answer is no.

Now let's talk about Obama and Clinton's cocaine snorting.

[ScottinVA]

But Cruz’s conservative political base may not look kindly on the news.

If an experimentation with pot is a dealbreaker with these people, their support was shaky to start with.

[muir_redwoods]

You have to be a leftist or some other variety of idiot to miss the main point here. It’s what a man does as a man not what he did as a boy that matters. Let me try to make that clearer for the slow kids. I used to date Joan. We broke up amicably. I am now married to Mary. I know that Mary is okay with what I did before I met her. I’m pretty sure Joan, wherever she is, is also okay with what I am doing now. It’s sort of an order-of-operations matter.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Being a career counselor by trade, I tend to disagree. Plus, there’s hardly any money in social work, but the classes are full and there’s a waiting list. Why is that?

[Wolfie]

OF course, Mr. Cruz is ready to lock up everybody else:

"Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday criticized President Barack Obama for not arresting people in Colorado who violated federal law by using marijuana."

[central_va]

If the kids in this country would study half as hard as the Indians, Koreans, Chinese and Filipinos, we wouldn't need H1Bs or at least not very many. But they don't!

They don't because wages are undercut by imported indentured servants, it is a catch 22. IBM just laid off 10,000 IT people, so WTH? Let's target your occupation with imported scabs and see how you squeal like a pig.

[US_MilitaryRules]

At least he wasn’t involved with a choom gang like the obola king!

[CatherineofAragon]

LOL! Oh, I know I’m done with him....I’m just scandalized. /S

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just because you have a “STEM degree” from East Cowfart College and Barber School doesn’t mean you’re qualified to work in that field. Many of the college graduates I’ve interviewed over the years were functionally illiterate and/or borderline retarded. I wouldn’t hire them to clean up after my dogs.

[gdani]

OF course, Mr. Cruz is ready to lock up everybody else:

"Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday criticized President Barack Obama for not arresting people in Colorado who violated federal law by using marijuana."

Ugh. As much as I think Cruz's teen use is a non-issue, he's going to lose me by encouraging more of the same failed War On (Some) Drugs.

[CatherineofAragon]

"LOL This tea partier did years of extensive research on pot and many other drugs."

Dang, CC, and I bet you never got a penny for your research.

[cripplecreek]

It appears that they’re giving grants for research in Colorado these days.

[Night Hides Not]

OMG- officers were smoking hashish in Europe during the Cold War.

[KC_Conspirator]

Another idiot who doesn’t understand the Tea Party movement at all.

And nor do they try. They have purposely smeared the Tea Party from the get go. Most tea partiers could not give a damn that Cruz tried pot.

[2ndDivisionVet]

A) I no longer have an occupation to speak of, I’m 80% service-connected disabled and (B) I worked in sales for quite a while. Not too many H1Bs there, as you really should speak fluent English if you’re going to try and persuade someone to buy something, with a few exceptions.