Posted on 05/20/2015 9:27:40 AM PDT by VinL
Is someone projecting? Just a little?
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a resident of the extreme right political fringe who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, told reporters in Texas on Tuesday that the left is obsessed with sex because he keeps getting questions about marriage laws and the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.
“Is there something about the left — and I am going to put the media in this category — that is obsessed with sex?” Cruz said.
He went on to borrow a particularly mindless comment from his colleague, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who said in April that gay-rights advocates should get some “perspective” because gay people are executed in Iran. Mr. Cruz took it one completely illogical step farther.
“ISIS is executing homosexuals — you want to talk about gay rights?” he said. “This week was a very bad week for gay rights because the expansion of ISIS, the expansion of radical, theocratic, Islamic zealots that crucify Christians, that behead children and that murder homosexuals — that ought to be concerning you far more than asking six questions all on the same topic.”
Let’s just toss that remark in the dustbin of campaign foolishness, and focus on his first comment — that asking about laws that ban same-sex marriages, and laws that ensure that gay Americans do not suffer discrimination, represents an obsession with sex.
Perhaps Mr. Cruz doesn’t get this, but fighting for gay rights and marriage equality has nothing to do with sex. Would Mr. Cruz say the same thing about the constant discussion among Republicans about the “sanctity” of heterosexual marriage and relationships between men and women?
If anything, it is the right that is strangely devoted
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Ping.
Cruz is getting the Palin treatment. The left sees him as an effective threat and want to smear him as much and as soon as possible. It will get worse.
Rosenthal blew his cover early on in that microscreed.
The left is utterly obsessed with sex - particularly the aberrant kind. Just one more step on the road to chaos and confusion among the population.
“He runs the show and is lazy as all get-out,” says a current Times writer, and one can almost hear the Times-ness in his controlled anger (who but a Timesman uses the phrase “as all get-out” these days?). Laziness and bossiness are unattractive qualities in any superior, but they seem particularly galling at a time when the Times continues to pare valued staffers via unending buyouts.
The Times declined to provide exact staffing numbers, but that too is a source of resentment. Said one staffer, “Andy’s got 14 or 15 people plus a whole bevy of assistants working on these three unsigned editorials every day. They’re completely reflexively liberal, utterly predictable, usually poorly written and totally ineffectual. I mean, just try and remember the last time that anybody was talking about one of those editorials. You know, I can think of one time recently, which is with the [Edward] Snowden stuff, but mostly nobody pays attention, and millions of dollars is being spent on that stuff.”
http://observer.com/2014/02/the-tyranny-and-lethargy-of-the-times-editorial-page/
The libs are living in denialville. Denial is NOT a river in Egypt.
LOL! They hate it. No surprise. This effort to say he is “projecting” will just help spread the great comments to the masses. The only ones who will think less of him are those whose agenda is far left, and from their perverted perspective they actually can’t think less of him.
Remember when Ken Starr was investigating Bill Clinton? His mouthpieces called Starr sex-obsessed every time they were able to get on MSM air-time. They just kept repeating that over and over.
“Let’s just toss that remark in the dustbin of campaign foolishness, and focus ..”
what a transparently reactionary clumsy bit of soft shoe that was??
The author is both projecting and so narrow in his circle of friends that he has no idea how looney that article sounds.
Reminds me of the guy that dissed the employee of Chick-fil-A and is now unemployed.
Get a clue.
Doesn't matter! The Cruz Machine has done the right thing in this case - he went on the offensive, and now the left can only respond. This is a winning strategy in politics! Go Cruz!
“Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a resident of the extreme right political fringe...”
Fringe? LOL! He only demonstrates his pure ignorance of a large part of America. As most proggies do, repeatedly.
Kids say the darnedest things.
fighting for gay rights and marriage equality has nothing to do with sex
Reality only applies to Repubs. But that is the fault of the Repubs. Frustrating.
And it worked. The left in that case able to frame the debate - they were on offense with that statement. Now, Cruz is doing the same, leaving the left to respond, which is always the losing side in politics. This is WONDERFUL! Cruz or lose!
Of course he’s right.
Actually, the left is obsessed with what are deemed puritanical/Victorian regulations of sex
Cruz is getting the Palin treatment.
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I understand what you’re saying— but I think it’s different.
Many on the Left see Cruz as a conservative intellectual (e.g.-William F. Buckley), so they look to debate him-— but they do so from a safe distance.
Why don’t they just say it? The Constitution is an extreme right wing fringe document. To the left, the Communist Manifesto is more mainstream.
Not even hyperbole any more, and not even funny any more.
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