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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz Demonstrates Texans Will Elect Anyone, No Matter How Stupid, If He’s A Republican
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/25/ted-cruz-demonstrates-texans-will-elect-anyone-no-matter-how-stupid-if-hes-a-republican/Ted Cruz Demonstrates Texans Will Elect Anyone, No Matter How Stupid, If Hes A Republican
By Amanda Marcotte
Monday, February 25, 2013 10:46 EST
Being from Texas, I can tell you that nothing embarrasses me more about the state than the way that, at least in statewide elections, the voters will elect anyone with the (R) by their name on the ballot, no matter how much of an imbecile that person is. That is being demonstrated in spades by the election of Ted Cruz to the Senate, a man who cannot open his mouth without causing the most ardent Texas Forver folks like myself to wonder if we should start excising yall from our vocabulary. The latest revelation:
Two and a half years ago, Cruz gave a stem-winder of a speech at a Fourth of July weekend political rally in Austin, Texas, in which he accused the Harvard Law School of harboring a dozen Communists on its faculty when he studied there. Cruz attended Harvard Law School from 1992 until 1995. His spokeswoman didnt respond to a request to discuss the speech.
Cruz made the accusation while speaking to a rapt ballroom audience during a luncheon at a conference called Defending the American Dream, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a non-profit political organization founded and funded in part by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch. Cruz greeted the audience jovially, but soon launched an impassioned attack on President Obama, whom he described as the most radical President ever to occupy the Oval Office. (I was covering the conference and kept the notes.)
He then went on to assert that Obama, who attended Harvard Law School four years ahead of him, would have made a perfect president of Harvard Law School. The reason, said Cruz, was that, There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.
unhappycamper comment: Welcome to the Clown Car. douchebag.
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Ted Cruz Demonstrates Texans Will Elect Anyone, No Matter How Stupid, If He’s A Republican (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Feb 2013
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)1. They is what cha call red dog-turd republicans.
no_hypocrisy
(46,083 posts)2. Devolution of Texas:
Ann Richards ---> George W. Bush ---> Rick Perry ---> Ted Cruz
LeftInTX
(25,258 posts)3. Texans would elect a canned ham if it had an (R) after it