Posted on 06/01/2015 7:04:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While as a writer I appreciate Ted Cruz and his near-endless stream of insane bull****, as a political reality Ted Cruz is quite frightening in a Joe McCarthy, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson kind of way.
Quickly scanning our own recent coverage of Ted Cruz, it quickly becomes appallingly clear that Cruz poses a real and present danger to Americans. Here are but 6 examples:
Ted Cruz Only Cares About Ted Cruz. Well, that and Texas.
As Richard pointed out in an article last week, back in 2013 when New York and New Jersey were under water and completely devastated from Hurricane Sandy, Teabagger, wingnut and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz voted against a $51 million package to help victims of the storm. The reason: he saw it as wasteful. Just another example of big government over spending to help people who should help themselves. The whole boot strap thing. As one might expect, Politifact refuted most of his spoken rationale for denying relief.
Fast-forward to last week when Texas and Oklahoma were hit by massive flash floods. Care to venture a guess as to how the freshman Senator from Texas sees government aid when his state and constituents need it?
One of the things that is inspiring in this time of challenge is how Texans come together. Were seeing cooperation with state government, local government, and the federal governmentall standing together at a time of great challenge. The federal governments role, once the governor declares a disaster area, and makes a request, I am confident that the Texas congressional delegation, Senator Cornyn and I, and the members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, will stand united as the Texans, in support of the federal government fulfilling its statutory obligations and stepping in to respond to this natural disaster.
So, Cruz is the Senator of a state that single-handedly receives more disaster relief money than nearly any state in the Union, with the possible exception of Oklahoma, yet he aggressively denies relief fund for states other than Texas.
Ted Cruz Would Deny The LGBT Community The Right To Marriage BASED UPON LIES And Fear-mongering
A couple of weeks ago, Rowen covered Cruz latest strategy for denying gays the right to marry the continued use of the word mandatory when referring to legalization of gay marriage. You might recall, several weeks ago he blasted Democrats for their, devotion to mandatory gay marriage in all 50 states. Then, three weeks ago during a radio interview he used it again, calling the legislative battles over same-sex marriage in Indiana and Arkansas heartbreaking infringements of religious freedom, that has gotten so extreme and so radical in its devotion to mandatory gay marriage that theyve decided theres no room for the religious liberty protected under the First Amendment.
As Rowen points out, what Cruz is doing here is attempting to refer to his belief that businesses should be able to legally discriminate against gay couples and refuse to serve them, but the devil is in the (mandatory) details. Senator Cruz doesnt stop there, having referred to the gay community as waging a jihad against religious freedom going so far as claiming that pastors may soon be hauled off to jail for a hate crime.
If you look at other nations that have gone down the road towards gay marriage, thats the next step of where it gets enforced. It gets enforced against Christian pastors who decline to perform gay marriages, who speak out and preach biblical truths on marriage, that has been defined elsewhere as hate speech, as inconsistent with the enlightened view of government. I think there is no doubt that the advocates who are driving this effort in the United States want to see us end up in that same place. Senator Ted Cruz
Cruz has even taken to sparring with reporters over his presumed hatred of gay Americans, as Kimberley reported last month. In a press conference in mid-May, when questioned whether he harbored any personal animosity against gay Americans? Cruz shot back with, Do you have a personal animosity against Christians, sir? adding: with respect, I would suggest not drawing your questions from MSNBC. They have very few viewers and they are a radical and extreme partisan outlet, and then he cited the expansion of mandatory same-sex marriage as an assault on religious liberty in the United States.
Ted Cruz Fuels Fringe Conspiracy Theorists
It is bad enough that we have whack-a-doodle militia members armed to the hilt with their camouflage rags and assault rifles without the likes of Ted Cruz feeding their fear of conspiracies around every corner.
Did you hear the rumor from the first week of May where President Obama is planning to use Special Forces to impose martial law in Texas and then hold prisoners in abandoned Walmart buildings? Sound crazy? Yes, it DOES sound crazy because it IS crazy. Its a ridiculous rumor created by fringe groups who are promoting this lunacy on the Internet.
True to form, Ted Cruz who also happens to be running for president of the United States decided to pander to the GOP minority of paranoid concerned citizens by telling them hell ask the Pentagon for answers. Fueling the paranoid fantasies of a few, Cruz blathered on about how the federal government has been disrespecting the liberty of the citizens, producing fear and distrust.
Ted Cruz Is A Threat To The Planet Through His Climate Change Denial
While most Republicans are shifting from climate-change atheism to climate-change agnosticism1, Ted Cruz clings with white knuckles to his denial of the existence of climate change. Want an example? Sure, and bear in mind this is but one of dozens of examples of his position on global-warming:
I just came back from New Hampshire where theres snow and ice everywhere. And my view actually is simple: Debates on this should follow science, and should follow data. And many of the alarmists on global warming, they got a problem cuz the science just doesnt back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrates that the last 17 years theres been zero warming. None whatsoever. Its whyyou remember how it used to be called global warming and then magically the theory changed to climate change? The reason is it wasnt warming, but the computer models still say it is, except the satellites show its not.
Ted Cruz Is Fundamentally Dishonest
And then theres the matter of his seemingly pathological tendency towards telling lies. As The Daily Beast reports, Cruzs record for telling lies is second only to Dr. Ben Carson who has a 100% pants on fire rating. However, Liberals Unite rates Cruz as number one liar as Politifact has only rated one statement of Carsons so far, that people choose to be gay. [You can go here for our full report on his record of telling lies.]
And how does Cruz respond? Back in April when asked about his record of telling lies by CNBCs John Harwood during a 10-question one-on-one interview about his political history Cruz decided to lash out at the fact-checkers themselves, accusing them of lying.
And its getting to the point that other Republicans, such as Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are fighting back against Ted Cruz and his lies. Heres a great piece about John McCain who wants to know more about his imaginary conversation with Ted Cruz. Then there is Rep. Pete King (R-NY) who referred to Cruz as a sideshow entertainer, adding he is just a guy with a big mouth and no results.
Ted Cruz Disrespects The Founding Fathers, American Tradition And Non-Christian Americans
As we reported in March, the noted conservative website Forbes.com published a scathing smack down of Ted Cruzs decision to announce his candidacy for the presidency at Liberty University, a religious institution founded by Rev. Jerry Falwell.
Forbes contributor Rick Ungar noted that Cruz spent the first part of his speech extolling the virtues of Jesus Christ and the importance the Christian faith played in keeping his family together.
Ungar went on to note that while he could understand Cruzs motives for choosing the school for his announcement, to appeal to the evangelicals who form the base of his political support, he could not help but feel that, in willfully ignoring our traditions, Senator Cruz was also willfully ignoring me along with the many Americans who practice a different faith or no faith at all.
Getting to the crux of his indictment against Cruz, Ungar writes that Cruzs announcement disrespects the Founding Fathers, writing:
Knowing what the Founders had in mind for our nation, one has to wonder how they would have reacted to Senator Cruzs choices in making his announcement yesterday. One must wonder how they would have felt about a candidate who launched his announcement to lead the American people with a long dissertation about Jesus rather than a dissertation on the greatness of the nation or the needs of its people. One must wonder how they would have felt about a candidate who announces his candidacy from the halls of a religious institution that is dedicated to the needs and beliefs of some of the people, but certainly not all of the people.
Personally, I think most of our Founders were turning over in their graves.
Ungar finished up, writing:
Ted Cruz revealed that he was only interested in making the statement to the religious right that he is their man while making it clear that he could care less about the traditions of our nation which call for our leaders to represent and care for the concerns of all the peoplenot just those who share the candidates religious beliefs. [ ]
And while the Senators choice will likely be forgotten in the big picturejust as I suspect Ted Cruz will ultimately be forgotten in the big picture of American historyhis choice served to, in a small but profound way, tarnish the proud traditions of this country.
If Senator Cruz really wants to imagine a better America, he might begin by imagining a campaign that begins with a statement of inclusion and belief in all of Americas people, not just those who meet his own religious litmus test.
If Cruz scares this wackjob, then all is well.
Sorry I don’t want to hear from a bunch of Leftist who gave us the baths*t Obama.
Go Ted Cruz.
The writer is terminally Democratic.
“6 Ways Ted Cruz Is A Threat To America And The American Way Of Life”
Are these people really THAT stupid? They can’t possibly be.
The only threat Ted Cruz is, is to the liberal peoples’ Nirvana that fringe lunatic liberals are working so hard to achieve, and whose existence is so tenuous.
One of those liberals are even funnier when they do not intend to be types of articles (so barf alert probably not necessary in this case).
Cruz engages in rankest form of demagoguery: Letter
by Joe Bush
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/2015/06/01/cruz-engages-rankest-form-demagoguery-letter/28307709/
Go, Ted, GO!!!
This means Ted is internally polling to be the nominee ‘cuz they sure ain’t writing scathing attacks on any of the other candidates.
“Liberals Unite” magazine? You’re killing me here...
They are scared, so scared they are showing their face and their ideology. Gave Cruz a donation today, will look forward to my next donation. Keep it up immoral and useful idiots. Continue to show your face as you destroy our country.
You noticed that too?
100% correct
I read ‘Liberals Unite Magazine’ and all came into focus.
Look at the source.
Ted scares them.
It will fun closer to the election.
Heads will explode.
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