It's like reading about the Bat-Boy from the national enquirer.
Posted on 04/23/2016 9:18:43 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Close your eyes and try to remember Grandpa Munster with his slick back black hair and his hook nose.
“Cruz/Rubio third party”
Awesome, the ticket to completely destroy the natural born clause once and for all.
Great idea! (do I really need a sarcasm tag?!)
He's a lying, cheating, thief and he's a snake in the grass!
Hilarious! especially Heidi at the last minute.
The absurdity of this guy Cruz manipulating the system to stay in the race.
You'd think losing the entire South would have given him a clue....instead
the jerk made a victory speech.
The Germans refer to this look as: Backpfeifengesicht,
meaning a face in need of a good punch.
There’s a YouTube video called Sciences Explains Why You Want to Punch Cruz:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zi07uRZsNn0
BTW, his high school picture doesn't have those traits but his nose has grown as he has aged. In high school, he looked like a member of Kotter's Sweathogs. Without doubt, he is the least attractive man to seek the White House since LBJ--and he kinda looks like him, too. All of this could be oversome, but he doesn't have the natural humor, timing, or extrovert nature to let any charisma overcome his appearance.
We can carpet bomb that bridge when we come to it.
But I am not concerned.
The “birther” thing is so Alex Jones out there......
You probably don't even believe it.
Fear not.
Think of the fun we can have.
Jedi.
This is the very essence of why he chooses to try and win by delegate manipulation. He is losing the peoples acceptance, confidence, votes, and so the only thing left is to ignore the peoples choice and win by cronyism, backroom deals, cooperating with the GOP and #NEVERTRUMP zombies and doing fake commercials. The delusional reality is that the GOP and Media have been propping him up for so long (to try and take out Trump) that he actually believes that he is likeable and electable. But he’s not!
“Think of the fun we can have”
While I appreciate the lighter side of things, I cannot and will not do anything that will further erode or flat destroy one of the greatest protections left to us by the founders.
That being said, I do appreciate you not trying to berrate me over my foundational views on this matter. And since you are so accommodating maybe you could tell me your position on natural born.
Do one, both, or none of the parents need to be American citizens at time if birth? Does the child need to be born on American soil?
Interesting. Like the negro community organizer from Chicago; i.e. nobody from Occidental, Harvard or Chicago remember him.
Can you imagine after everything we know about this guy, and he’s pulling a Jeb Bush on us...
“I can fix it” ; ‘Low energy’; ‘Please Clap for me’ ; ‘It’s my birthday’ and no one was there...
Can you just see what will be happening here: “I’m going to be more likeable”; “I didn’t have sex with anyone but my wife, so Carly says”; “I didn’t vote for the CFR only after I voted for it” (kind of sounds like John Kerry)...
ROFL...I have to quit laughing, my sides are hurting...
Actually, several people have gone on record as remembering Obama from college. Some of whom have gone so far as to call him a friend.
I'm sure people remember Ted Cruz from college as well. Nobody, as far as I can tell, has admitted to being friends with him. Seems Senator Cruz was just as loathsome as a youngster as he is today.
That is as of today.
That gives me the confidence to go all in on this idea.
Unless Cruz gets VP or somehow (however doubtful)wins on a 2nd ballot.
Marco is the icing on the cake. Not perfect but can make inroads into middle class neighborhoods that the Rino’s have failed to even think about. And some in the media love the guy.
The birth of a new party is long overdue.
We may never have the operations and personnel to even try this again. All 50 states are staffed.
It just takes the will.
And God knows...many in this country...are more than willing.
Are you?
FRgards,
Jedi.
I can stomach a superiority complex if it's just a companion trait to a deep commitment and caring for a cause other than oneself. And this man was deeply committed not just to himself and ego, but to his work, and to helping the people around him. He was even a liberal ... but an authentic one.
So this man had a million ... what we would consider flaws, and often it was hard to learn from him, because you really had to tamp down your ego and do a cost benefit analysis. I was learning software ... so his silly positions on everything else could be put up with, my mind was not being poisoned.
Now you have Cruz - whom any of us should love.
But you don't ... you can't ... you'd be overriding a part of yourself that doesn't respond to wishes and rationalizations ... instinct.
There are two reasons, and they are the fundamental differences be Cruz, whom I wouldn't let in my yard near my cat, and this mentor I had, whom I love in the way you love a hard, flawed but authentic, father:
Cruz is not authentic, you have to guess what his clever scheme is, even when he's talking to his own voters. And two, you get the very very deep sense that what he is committed to, is only himself.
This second trait can be confusing because he doesn't know it
Consider a man who can only see oranges, not apples.
If all he ever selected at the grocery store were oranges, you might think he was consciously ignoring apples. But he's not - he doesn't see them, so they are not part of his reality.
Others ... are not part of his reality, and never were. He never chose himself over others. He never had the choice, he never perceived anything other than himself.
The reason he doesn't "connect" is that while he perceives many bodies around him, in front of him, they appear to him as inanimate objects. This is the autism/aspergers/antisocial/narcissism/sociopath spectrum trait. It's not evil - although it causes evil - it just is what it is. Not perceiving others as instances of himself, but rather, other 'things' ... there is really no question, I would do the same thing ... you use them and manipulate them so that they will do what you want them to do to forward your aims.
It's very hard to reconcile because we are trained to think that people like him must have some evil intent. They don'tj ... although they do tremendous harm.
But you have to understand - Ted Cruz does not perceive himself to be in a world surrounded by 'beings just like him.'
This is how he can mistake himself for brilliant, clever, good, honest etc.
When you meet these people -> there is only one thing you can do to make the situation better: Either have them removed from your property, or run.
They will destroy your life quickly or slowly, but usually without you knowing it or what's happening, and as your life increases in negativity, you will look not at them but at yourself or others -> why? Because you will perceive no evil intent (there is none per se.)
Ted is missing a piece of the clay that makes a person a human being.
Because of that, he resembles Pinocchio -> not an evil figure, but a liar, made of wood. Will Cruz ever develop past this? It's possible something that he perceives as a great tragedy will point him inward to look for the source of the problem rather than outward.
It's conceivable that he's a different man in 10 years. He's risen as high as he can on debate skills ... an that act allowed him not to develop ... so his winning formula that allowed him not to developer is crashing.
What remains to be seen is does he parlay it into a life that feeds his ego enough, or does he crash and burn seeing his debate skills don't make him omnipotent ... and then ... he either looks within or he doesn't.
There was a time when I cared about people like that ... but I've since come to know that there isn't much my caring will do for them. God either turns on the light inside their heads or He doesn't. I have no idea whether it happens because they've done something to deserve the light or not. I think God gives them the opportunity to suffer, and they either look inside or look outside. When and if they emerge from that suffering, and whether, if they emerge, they emerge changed or just re-enforced - a harder version of what they were - more convinced that what they were was right and they must be more of it - is entirely up to them. Lacking any evidence of humility, it's unlikely a man like Ted Cruz would look inside asking the question 'is there something wrong here with me? Have I brought this on myself?'
It's like reading about the Bat-Boy from the national enquirer.
LOL!
“That old man just took your spork” LOL!
Everyday Cruz stays in as a spoiler to disenfranchise the voters he becomes more hated.
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