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The totally objective and unbiased media got spanked for insulting Ted Cruz’s four and seven-year-old daughters, so they’re moving on to target his elderly dad for being, well, an elderly man.Watch below:CNN: Ted Cruz's dad courts controversy (Video)Interesting how his daughters were “fair game” because Cruz used them in one parody ad, and now I’m sure they’ll say the same of his father.Now imagine what would have happened if John McCain or Mitt Romney brought up Obama’s communist, womanizing, drunk absent father. Gosh, that wouldn’t be “fair game,” right? I mean IT’S NOT LIKE OBAMA WROTE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY CALLED “DREAMS...

Ted Cruz's Iowa Ad: Victories (Video)Increasing his presence on television screens in Iowa, Senator Ted Cruz released a new ad, titled "Victories," portraying him as a successful fighter for conservative causes.On Screen Black-and-white photographs of a white cross in the Mojave Desert ("Defended the cross. And won," a caption declares), a Ten Commandments monument outside a statehouse ("Protected the Ten Commandments. And won."), armed hunters silhouetted against the sky ("Fought for the Second Amendment. And won.") and a girl with her hand over her heart ("Stood up for the Pledge of Allegiance. And won."). Reverb-soaked guitar licks provide the only...

One of the negatives that has been hung on Ted Cruz is that he is too abrasive to win. Over and over you read about his “likability” problem with no greater definition ever put forward much larger than “I don’t like him.” An for the record, I call bull**** on “likability” as anything more substantial than one of the many old wives’s tales put forward by failed political consultants to shift blame onto the candidate they recently schlonged (I believe that is the technical term). It could conceivably be a factor in very close elections with a very stupid electorate...