[okie01]

They can't plausibly call him stupid - no one will agree with that - so he must be defined as smarmy, dangerous, radical, polarizing, and "a firebrand."

Smarmy???

Dick Durbin is "smarmy".

Ted Cruz is anything but.

[Din Maker]

They can’t plausibly call him stupid - no one will agree with that....
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Really? Well, it worked when they did it to Sarah.