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Washington Post: Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props
Washington Post ^ | December 22, 2015 | Ann Telnaes

Posted on 12/22/2015 3:43:10 PM PST by Isara

There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician's children are off-limits. People don't get to choose their family members so obviously it's unfair to ridicule kids for their parent's behavior while in office or on the campaign trail- besides, they're children. There are plenty of adults in the political world who act childish, so there is no need for an editorial cartoonist to target actual children.

I've kept to that rule, except when the children are adults themselves or choose to indulge in grown-up activities (as the Bush twins did during the George W Bush presidency). But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her father's dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game.

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It seems that the 'Cruz Christmas Classics' hit Ann Telnaes hard (1,475,433 views).

Cruz Christmas Classics

"Cruz Christmas Classics (Video)

1 posted on 12/22/2015 3:43:10 PM PST by Isara
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To: Isara
Here is Ted Cruz's response on Twitter:

Classy. @washingtonpost makes fun of my girls. Stick w/ attacking me--Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.

- Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 22, 2015


2 posted on 12/22/2015 3:44:42 PM PST by Isara
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“I pay no taxes” Bezos owns WaPo now.

I remember the MSM kissing Zero’s ass about his cute kids. Anything they can do to sling mud at conservatives they do.


3 posted on 12/22/2015 3:45:24 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Isara

Breaking news:

Politician kisses baby!

Film at 11.


4 posted on 12/22/2015 3:45:38 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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First on CNN: Clinton invokes granddaughter in new TV spot
5 posted on 12/22/2015 3:45:44 PM PST by South40 (Ted Cruz = the only conservative in the race)
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To: Isara

That is a truly great ad.

I can’t think of any other ads offhand that make me LOL, but that one sure did. WaPo seems like they got a case of sour grapes.


6 posted on 12/22/2015 3:46:52 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Isara

And Hillary touting that she is a grandma isn’t?


7 posted on 12/22/2015 3:47:10 PM PST by McGruff (Merry Christmas)
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To: Isara

Go Cruz! When you have a good family, you become a role model to everyone. True family values.

No divorces, adulterers, and other deviants. I am looking at certain candidates right now.


8 posted on 12/22/2015 3:47:13 PM PST by sagar
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Well sheesh, Didn’t Obama use his girls for messages? Is she going to put monkeys next to Obama...

I bet not.


9 posted on 12/22/2015 3:47:18 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: South40

BOOM!


10 posted on 12/22/2015 3:47:46 PM PST by McGruff (Merry Christmas)
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To: Isara

Oh bull. The ad is not about the kids. They are just upset that the ad undermines the left’s unfair characterization of Ted Cruz as an ogre.


11 posted on 12/22/2015 3:48:35 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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LOL

And he scores.


12 posted on 12/22/2015 3:48:39 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
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To: Isara

Go ahead you morons. His kids are beautiful and probably smarter than most of the staff at the WaPo already. Show yourselves to be the kind of animals you are.

America loves this stuff, so you can go stuff it, too!


13 posted on 12/22/2015 3:48:49 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Go Ted!)
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Preemptive strike by the MSM before the comments start about Hillary’s campaign prop next summer/fall, aka Chelsea’s next child due in 2017.


14 posted on 12/22/2015 3:48:59 PM PST by CatOwner (Trump + Cruz greater than 50% = GOPe on suicide watch)
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Hey, at least he trained them well enough that they’re not assaulting the popo and committing felonies like Ebola’s virtual brats.


15 posted on 12/22/2015 3:48:59 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Maybe H->! can send Cruz’ girls some cloths for Christmas to help H! wipe her computers.


16 posted on 12/22/2015 3:49:35 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: CatOwner

2017 => 2016


17 posted on 12/22/2015 3:51:05 PM PST by CatOwner (Trump + Cruz greater than 50% = GOPe on suicide watch)
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Gotta love the predictability of the left.

There is no hole they can’t dig deeper.


18 posted on 12/22/2015 3:52:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Isara

Obama Daughters as political props in campaign stop. Notice the mic in the hand

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/AP_barack_obama_sasha_malia_2008_jt_150621_4x3_992.jpg


19 posted on 12/22/2015 3:54:10 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Isara
I've kept to that rule, except when the children are adults themselves or choose to indulge in grown-up activities (as the Bush twins did during the George W Bush presidency). But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her father's dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game.

There are a whole lot of words for this woman(?), but I am too much of a gentleman to use any of them. She slams the children of republicans but never the kids of democrats, and she justifies this with a double standard that she pretends to rationalize after the fact. True-believer liberal hypocrites disgust me. Decent people would leave the children (under age 21) of politicians on all sides out of the attacks, even Amy Carter, even Chelsea Clinton, even Sarah Palin's beautiful children, even the Bush daughters, even the children of an evil thug like Obama, and even the adorable daughters of our next President - Ted Cruz.

20 posted on 12/22/2015 3:54:36 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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