Posted on 09/28/2015 2:22:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Armchair psychoanalysis of political figures can be a dubious and even disreputable business. But one presidential candidate presents the following symptoms: feral aggression, reflexive demagoguery, self absorption, paranoia, grandiosity, disdain for social norms and an inability to cooperate with others. When such a person habitually imagines himself as Winston Churchill, the effect is truly destabilizing. So let us add to the DSM a newly discovered malady: Ted Cruz Syndrome.
For the historic figure Cruz most evokes is not Churchill, but a nascent Joseph McCarthy. It is not his fault that he resembles the young McCarthy (though he does), but that his words and actions bring the vulpine loner from Wisconsin to eerie recall. Like McCarthy, Cruz is capable of a casual cruelty which is startlingly gratuitous. Hard upon the death of Beau Biden, Cruz chortled to an audience, "Joe Biden. You know what the nice thing is? ... [J]ust walk up to someone and say,' Vice-President Joe Biden,' and just close your mouth. They will crack up laughing."
Shortly after Jimmy Carter revealed his grim diagnosis with admirable grace, Cruz ridiculed Barack Obama and Carter as having identical failed presidencies, as if merely attacking Obama was not pleasure enough. Sometimes, it seems, all one has to do is cross the senator's radar screen, no matter how tragic the circumstances. For with Cruz, like McCarthy, merely calling his endless array of self-selected opponents wrong does not suffice to slake his psychic need to demean and disparage.
The targets of these rhetorical drive-by shootings are often his fellow Republicans. During Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearings, Cruz implied that Hagel had received money from North Korea. In the skirmishing over the Export-Import Bank, Cruz accused his own Majority Leader of telling a "flat-out lie."(continued)
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Cruz is living in their heads rent free and it shows every time a budget showdown crisis comes up.
“feral aggression, reflexive demagoguery, self absorption, paranoia, grandiosity, disdain for social norms and an inability to cooperate with others.”
Every single one of those things is fairly said about Obama.
You got that right
Because Cruz is the Left’s worst nightmare.
He described Hillary to a T.
Hagel was getting donations from Saudi Arabia and Turkey... don’t know about N Korea unless he was getting goodies from Tongsun Park...
A reminder, if we needed one, that they hate us as people much more than we hate what they stand for, and we know how much we hate what they stand for.
I consider this an endorsement.
And Hillary.
Armchair psychoanalysis of political figures can be a dubious and even disreputable business like HuffPo bloggers?.
But one presidential candidate presents the following symptoms: feral aggression, reflexive demagoguery, self absorption, paranoia, grandiosity, disdain for social norms and an inability to cooperate with others. When such a person habitually imagines himself as Winston Churchill The New Caliphate, the effect is truly destabilizing.
So let us add to the DSM a newly discovered malady: Ted Cruz Syndrome Obama Fatigue.
Just described Barack Hussein Obama to a T. Ironic this nonsense being spewed forth at Cruz from a 0 worshiping extreme Leftist like this isn't it?
Richard North Patterson and the Huffington Post should tell us how they REALLY feel about Ted Cruz. I am sure they believe they were only providing thoughtful and helpful but entirely constructive criticism.
Come on, guys. Ted REALLY wants this input from you, you know? But hey, sort of stick to the facts, and none of this side pleasantry about Ted’s physical appearance, or his casual remarks....
(Oh, hell, do I HAVE to include the < /sarcasm > tag?)
I seem to be the only person I know who thinks Cruz looks like a 21st century version of young LBJ, complete with the nose. That he is a Senator from TX doesn't hurt. That is where the analogy ends, thank goodness.
As a formality, yes. (/s)
Is that the same feeling the libs get when the think of Ted Cruz?
They hate Cruz because of hi Conservative values. Just like they hated Reagan. All the RINOs that hated Reagan in the 70s and 80s, that would be the Bushes, Ford, McConnell and the Rockefellers and the rest of the establishment. Cruz would win a landside if he is not taken out by them!!!
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