TED CRUZ
ANNOUNCES
HIS
CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT
FIRST TERM
TEXAS SENATOR AND OVERALL
BLOWHARD IS
THE FIRST IN THE GOP TO TOSS
HIS
PROPELLER TOPPED BEANIE IN THE RING
(AP PHOTO)
TAGS:
TED CRUZ RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, CRUZ: A FAR RIGHT WINGNUT
GOP
PRIMARY SEASON WILL BE FREAK SHOW,
CRUZ
AND HIS COMPETITORS TO ENGAGE IN CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD,
CRUZ
TOO EXTREME FOR HIS OWN PARTY ESTABLISHMENT
(Monday March 23, 2015,
Lynchburg, Virginia) There could not
have been a more contrived setting for such an event as Liberty University; the
Evangelical institution of higher learning founded by the late Reverend Jerry
Falwell who also happened to be one of the founding fathers of the Christian
conservative political movement once hailed by true believers as “the moral
majority”. The gathering here this
morning was mandatory attendance for all the university’s students and they
showed up in force to avoid the sanction of a financial penalty. And so it was here that the freshman Senator
from Texas, the Tea Party champion and darling, Ted Cruz, appeared to formally
announce his candidacy for the office of the President of the United
States. It was oddly entertaining
theater. His 20 plus minute speech
contained plenty of autobiographical and familial history as well as enough Republican
“red meat” to satisfy the most carnivorous of GOP primary voters; a solid block
of true believers rabidly anti-Obama, common sense, logic and science averse
zealots ready to cast their votes for anyone proclaiming to be the rebirth of
Ronald Reagan on steroids. But that is
putting it mildly.
Ted Cruz has as much of a real
chance of winning the office he seeks as does a slab of Texas BBQ ribs. The 44 year old Senator is famous for his
bloviating and bluster while unable to boast of any appreciable legislative
initiatives of his own design. Actually
he is much maligned and, in some quarters, deeply despised by members of his
own Senate Caucus and the Republican Party at large. To classify him as a “fringe candidate” would
be unduly generous and kind. Cruz is
just the first of what will no doubt be a carnival act of Republicans vying for
media coverage and money in campaigns destined to go nowhere. But, for the next 19 months or so the
American people will be forced to tolerate the blitzkrieg-like campaigning Cruz
and others will rain down upon the political landscape.
Cruz will soon be joined on
the campaign trail by equally unqualified, delusional, and egotistical
imbeciles; a collection of single issue, no chance, pandering jesters ranging
from Ben Carson, Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee to Marco Rubio, Rand Paul,
Chris Christy, Scott Walker, and some even remarkably lesser known and darker
horse characters including John Kasich, Bobby Jindal, effeminate Lindsay Graham,
and perhaps Bozo. Yes, this election
cycle will be complete and replete with crazies and loonies from across the
right wing spectrum and beyond. The
specter of Jeb Bush, yes, another Bush, seems to have not discouraged anyone
from forming an exploratory committee, fund raising, or jockeying for position
in a field so crowded by lunatics that it will be difficult to decipher the
truly mentally disturbed and imbalanced from the devoted semi-legitimate
“conservative”. Perhaps the first of
this collection to recognize the fact that Barak Obama is not on the ballot
might have a gamblers chance at breaking through the bullshit and static.
IMAGINE
Citing today as the 240th
anniversary of one of our founding patriots, Patrick Henry’s, “Give me Liberty
or Give me Death” speech before a court in Richmond Virginia, Cruz opted to
borrow John Lennon’s song “Imagine” lyrics with a full throttled request for
all the listening audience and beyond to “imagine” what a Ted Cruz presidency
would look like. It was a scary,
sanctimonious screed of crap, executive impossibilities, and denials of
reality, that amounted to rendering the notion of actually imagining what this
yahoo would if he could do as president such a creative stretch that very few
could travel his rhetorical trail and keep a straight face.
True to form Cruz tossed out
his imaginary presidential acts such as repealing “Obamacare”, abolishing the
IRS and installing a flat tax by which every taxpayer could submit their tax
return on a “postcard”. President Cruz
would somehow create “millions of high paying jobs” while making “America
energy independent” Naturally in his fantasy presidency he would increase
defense spending, call radical Muslim extremists what they actually are, make
certain Iran never had a nuclear weapon, unconditionally support the Apartheid
State of Israel, rely on “science” in matters such as “climate change” and
restore God Almighty to His rightful place in our Democratic Republic. Yes indeed, he would be one tough as nails,
hard-charging, hard assed president and the world would know there’s a new sheriff
in the White House who ain’t likely to dance around the most thorny issues of
our day and time. The longer he spoke the more deranged he appeared; his part
revival tent preacher cadence mixed with a shoddy used car salesman’s slimy
pitch made him seem as cartoonish as his one dimensional imagination.
MARCH TO MADNESS
And so the games begin. What will no doubt be a literal circus of conservative
clowns, anti-Obama acrobats twisting themselves into all manner of bizarre
postures to capture the GOP “base” and other charlatans, snake oil salesman,
and galoots with absolutely no chance whatsoever to actually win their Party’s
nomination will now begin to declared themselves to be contenders in the
race. They will descend into irrelevant
two of the most irrelevant states, Iowa and New Hampshire, because of their
significance in the republican primary process where they will practice the
absurd quadrennial rituals of courting hog farmers, maple syrup extractors, and
others who are no more reflective of our country’s diversity than the moon.
For the brief time being Mr.
Cruz has the spotlight and he hopes to bring on his brand of thunder and lightning
before the others jump into the fray.
Cruz will find himself in a dog fight with other Republicans each trying
to out maneuver the others in what promises to be an entertaining spectacle of
right wing demagogic sociopathy, malignant lunacy, lying, pandering, and
posturing. The other potential
candidates he most desires to upstage and out bluster are others seeking to
claim the mantel of the most socially conservative, a dubious distinction at
best given the fact that the country as a whole is far more moderate and
middle-of-the-road on virtually all the issues the Republicans champion.
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