Posted on 02/04/2015 2:38:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
So I suppose Ted Cruz is toast, right? (Or should that be toasted…) In the more bored and rudderless sections of the mediasphere, an article from the Daily Mail issued a triumphant cry when they received confirmation from the Texas Senator that he had smoked pot as a young man. This was part of a roundup where nearly every Republican even suspected of considering a run for the White House was asked about their history with the evil weed. (The answers range from sheepish affirmatives to defiant denials, a few who hedge on it and at least three who refused to answer at all. And yes, we’re looking at you, Governor Christie.)
The Left, who find Ted Cruz to be perhaps the most hated figure in the political world right now, probably couldn’t wait to pounce. Wouldn’t the Tea Party have to abandon him now? They can’t have some pot smoking hippie wandering around running for the presidency, can they? (And let’s not forget… he’s from Canada. You know how they are.) So this is the end, right?
Paula Bolyard at PJ Media thinks the obituaries might be a tad premature.
You can practically hear the breathless staffer gleefully panting this into his cell phone from a dark corner of his office as he rubs his hands together, fantasizing about the (literal) lynching that will be visited upon Ted Cruz on the steps of the Capitol, courtesy of the tea party.
The anonymous aide is correct on one point. We all have skeletons.
Most people — tea party supporters included — understand that teenagers sometimes make poor decisions. But teenagers change. Most grow up and learn from their mistakes. People are usually willing to forgive youthful indiscretions when an individual shows over time that he has changed his ways and is sincere about repudiating the past behavior…
Considering that the revelations about Cruz are for something that happened some 30 years in the past and given his words of contrition about behavior he calls “foolish” and a “mistake,” this skeleton is not going to “topple” Cruz. He will not be thrown under the tea party bus and no one will care about this in a month (except for that anonymous Dem staffer who will still be trying to figure out how on earth this did not turn into the biggest scandal since Watergate).
Paula is correct, I suppose, but I would take it one step further than that. Even reading the frequent comments of conservatives here and at other sites who oppose the casual legalization of marijuana and see it as undesirable in a productive society, the vast majority just don’t see it as the end of the world, particularly when it’s in the distant past. As long as elected officials or law enforcement officers aren’t doing it while they are in place and guarding democracy, it simply doesn’t seem like the definition of a person’s character. I can imagine a number of people who won’t be doing cartwheels over the news, but it’s equally difficult to imagine that this one self-professed nugget is going to make them walk away. Obviously I don’t care, being a bit too libertarian for that to bother me one way or the other.
I did notice that the list of individuals who were contacted for this survey was notably missing one person… Hillary Clinton. She has been on the record as saying, “I didn’t do it when I was young, I’m not going to start now,” so I guess that’s all she wrote, eh? I mean, sure.. she was in a college class shortly before the summer of love with all sorts of people who did, and she was hanging out with a future husband who failed to inhale but at least tried it. But what does that mean? Why would anyone doubt her?
So now I suppose we can all move on to the next witch hunt. And if anyone has a picture of Donald Trump with a bong from the 70s, the address to contact is tips@hotair.com
Crime = Violation of LAW!
And what law did he violate?
By what authority was it made?
Having said that- I'm supposed to be indignant and fired up enough to reject Ted Cruz for an indiscretion in his youth, likely foisted on the public by an agent provocateur of the Rat party, involving the use of marijuana??? I better not find out any of the candidates did a rolling stop at a stop sign, or worse yet made a Colorado left at a traffic signal that had just turned green.
You're bringing a pipe cleaner to a gun fight. Wake up and smell the coffee! Go eat your disobedient pets if you MUST eat something. Righteous indignation is cool- but we need thermonuclear weapons at this point. What have you got?
Having said that- I'm supposed to be indignant and fired up enough to reject Ted Cruz for an indiscretion in his youth, likely foisted on the public by an agent provocateur of the Rat party, involving the use of marijuana??? I better not find out any of the candidates did a rolling stop at a stop sign, or worse yet made a Colorado left at a traffic signal that had just turned green.
You're bringing a pipe cleaner to a gun fight. Wake up and smell the coffee! Go eat your disobedient pets if you MUST eat something. Righteous indignation is cool- but we need thermonuclear weapons at this point. What have you got?
Man I love double posts.
Man I love double posts. ha!
I would have to wonder why someone his age had not smoked pot. I know they are out there, and that’s fine. But folks smoking pot into their 20’s is not earth shattering news.
One thing we’ve learned here is that it’s possible to smoke some pot as a young person, and still grow up to be Ted Cruz.
How many millions of babies have been aborted in America? 60,000,000 million you say? I am supposed to be riled up about that no count 20 year old law breaker Ted Cruz??? Well let me tell you something brother- or sister- I am fit to be tied! The lesson we can learn from such a debate as we are seeing play out here on this thread is akin to the frog being boiled in the pot- parable. Welcome to 1984 er’ I mean 2015 America! How do you like it?
Geez. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
I betcha he’s left the lid up on the toilet a time or two, too. :-P
That's it, I'm out. I'm Voting for Hillary or Elizabeth Warren. It's time we have a woman .
We should appoint a massive, taxpayer funded investigation into whether Ted Cruz has ever picked his nose.
Went to Woodstock music and Arts Festival in August of ‘69. ... Or did I go to Canada?
CRUZ or LOSE!
Do all pot heads commit murder? I think many grow up and use no more.
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