Interesting case. I like how it just accepts as fact that Ted isn’t a likable guy, LOL. His personality does rub me the wrong way a lot of the time. I’ll still vote for him in the general, though.
I think this author (as well as some others) gets one assumption wrong. The personal dislike of Cruz isn’t because he’s not “the guy you want to have a beer with”. After all, Ronald Reagan wasn’t a guy you’d want to have a beer with, but everyone loved him.
No, with Ted, I think his demeanor can be boiled down to one word: smarmy.
A secondary trait I’m not a fan of, is that he seems to be completely humorless, by any normal standard. Much like Yeb! or Mitt Romney, when Cruz is telling a joke, he’s just mouthing some words that his instincts (or focus groups) tell him should be a good approximation of what “the normal people” would find funny. It almost never works. On the flipside, there are guys like Trump and Christie, or Reagan or Gingrich in the past, who can just pop stuff off on the spot with no rehearsal and get a good laugh out of the room.
Sounds a bit like Asperger syndrome.
Or, Smart Man’s disease....
Cruz has a good sense of humor, a dry sense of humor.
Are we voting for the best glib comedian or a president? Cruz's sense of humor is very dry, as others have noted. He doesn't have the timing or delivery of Bob and Ray for goodness sake, but he's not too bad for a politician.
I personally like the fact that he's not liked by insiders. To me the complaint that he's not liked is idiotic.
Cordially,
Agree
The swarmyness from Ted is appalling. Nobody in Congress will want to work with him.
He’ll be a 1 term President who isn’t able to get a thing done.