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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums“And when he became Senator, I was like, ‘Oh my God, he called my mother a whore!’”
Beardsley says that she and Cruz, who lived next door to her close friend, would occasionally get into political arguments when she came by. Im a classic blue state anti-death penalty pro-choice liberalI represent everything wrong with America, as far as Ted Cruz is concerned, she said during a phone conversation, laughing. We would just yell at each other.
And when he became Senator, I was like, Oh my God, he called my mother a whore!
He did? According to Beardsley, the two were having an intellectual debate about abortion one day, when she disclosed that her mother had once ended a pregnancy. I remember telling him [that] my mother had two children, they really couldnt afford to have another child, they really would have struggled. And it was a very difficult, painful decision for my mother. At that point, she said, he became vicious and made it personal, eventually telling her, in his loving way, that my mother was going to hell and was a whore.
He made me cry, he was really awful, she added. (Two other students who lived in Butler at the time recalled Beardsley and Cruz getting into an argument over abortion that resulted in tears.) It was one of the worst things that anyones ever said to me.
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Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)As far as I am concerned I would have laughed. But, if he said that to say my brother...Well Ted just wouldn't be as pretty today. Cuz that's how rednecks roll.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)he is unable to feel shame
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)and yes, it was disastrous
underpants
(182,274 posts)Not one single person has come forward to at least give him a "he's okay" nod. Not one.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)said he has received e-mails asking why he didn't smother Cruz with a pillow in his sleep when he had the chance.
Everybody hates this narcissistic, sociopathic shitbag. EVERYBODY.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)And now he's one of the major contenders for GOP president candidate.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I've been looking for indications that he is a believer and not just a posturer.
I read that when Cruz was a SCOTUS clerk he had a...distasteful interest in petitions for stays of execution and alone among the clerks actually enjoyed being on duty for when they came in. He wanted them all denied.
Shiver. This guy's a creep. The GOP lineup has several authoritarian extremists who are literally threats to our democracy, and Cruz is definitely one of them. Anarcho- is a term some have applied to Cruz, anti-government, but I can't help thinking a religious Cruz's opposition to government may well be to bring it down so it can be replaced with a theocratic dictatorship -- with him on top. He tried to destabilize the nation during the financial crisis, when many economists worried that further collapse here would bring down the global economy, and attempted to disrupt Congress from within at the same time.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)That says a lot about the state of American politics.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and imbeciles there are in this country generally and Texas in particular.
Scream Jebus and at least 35% of the electorate will vote for anything.
So does fundy religion make people stupid or are stupid people fundies? Both I think.