A Major Texas Newspaper Just Told Ted Cruz to Take a Hike

[babylonsister]

A Major Texas Newspaper Just Told Ted Cruz to Take a Hike
The list of folks who don’t like the first-term senator really knows no bounds.

Margaret Kadifa
Feb. 16, 2018 7:07 PM


The Dallas Morning News‘ editorial board chose not to endorse Ted Cruz in the upcoming Republican primary, instead telling voters to cast ballots for a 37-year-old Houston energy lawyer.

The board cited Cruz’s few legislative wins, infamous unpopularity in Washington, and his decision this week to vote against opening bipartisan debate over immigration as reasons to vote for his competitor, Stefano de Stefano, one of five candidates vying to clinch the Republican nomination on March 6.

The Morning News wrote:

Our senator has made few allies, even among Republicans in the Senate. He has a thin legislative record to show for it, though he has been more focused since the end of his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. This shift toward productive results enabled him to push for billions in Hurricane Harvey relief for Texas and steer a bipartisan NASA authorization bill to passage. Texas would be well served if it saw more of that work from its junior senator.

Cruz’s elbows have been so sharp and his disdain for deal-making so pronounced, that he’s often stymied his own party’s agenda. In 2013, he helped shut down the government to protest the Affordable Care Act. Even fellow GOP senators criticized the effort as grandstanding. Upset over a setback over the Export-Import Bank in 2015, he called the Senate’s Republican leader a liar, poisoning prospects for progress.

Cruz, who was elected in 2012, is no stranger to being snubbed—by newspapers, congressman, and old classmates alike. The Morning News, in fact, endorsed one of his competitors the last time he ran. “He’s more about fighting and defending and toppling than bringing people together, building coalitions or solving problems,” the editorial board wrote, adding, “His appeal is based on an underlying anger that works only so far.”

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/a-major-texas-newspaper-just-told-ted-cruz-to-take-a-hike/

[HootieMcBoob]

1. I hope they endorse his Democratic opponent

In the general election in November.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/16/orourke-raises-22-million-first-45-days-2018/

[PDittie]

10. We won't know his D challenger until

the evening of March 6.

And I'm voting for Sema.

https://www.semafortexas.us/

[Lonestarblue]

12. Havent heard of Sema in my part of the state.

Beto O'Rourke is my favorite to oust Cruz.

[PDittie]

20. Beto is the favorite

He's just not the best.

[flygal]

2. Wait, this is his first term?!! It feels like this jerk has been around for longer than that.

[Kentonio]

3. It really does!!

[ejbr]

4. +1 n/t

[Historic NY]

6. Thats cause he tried running for President.

[getagrip_already]

15. and it feels like this year 8 for trump.......

we are in a time warp of sorts.

[Cha]

19. It's been a long 6 years

with cruz in DC

[oasis]

5. I don't see why Ted's wife could live under the same roof as that jerk.

She'll work hard to get him re-elected so he can spend more time in Washington and away from home.

[IronLionZion]

9. She's also the breadwinner in that family

and pays for his health insurance because he won't use the ACA like other members of Congress. I don't understand what she gets out of that relationship.

[Hortensis]

11. Spouses are usually the same general personality type.

It out-correlates all other factors, such as religious, economic and educational backgrounds. Would YOU marry Cruz, known to everyone as a dishonest, ruthless, extremist, religious creep since schooldays? Almost none who've known him would have. She did.

[Gore1FL]

16. The heart wants what the heart wants.

With humans, logic has rarely been a winning force when faced against emotion.

[dalton99a]

7. The Dallas Morning News also endorsed Hillary

[duforsure]

8. A lot more people hating Cruz

He such a serial liar , and more people are running away from voting for him again. Voted for the tax scam , hurting health care too. Will vote to destroy SS and Medicare too.

[Stardust1]

13. So...

"He’s more about fighting and defending and toppling than bringing people together, building coalitions or solving problems,”
So he's like most right-wingers then?

[Ilsa]

14. Make him a one-term senator.

That will be his mark as a failure.

[mountain grammy]

17. We spent much of 2012 in blood red west Texas

and Cruz's campaign ads were all against Obama, and they were vicious.. The scary black man Texans love to hate. I wonder who Cruz will run against this year? Hillary? Yes, that'll work in west Texas, saddest place ever.

[PDittie]

21. Early indications suggest

... he's going to run against "the far left", the "extremist left", etc. and so on.

You know, that scary communist boogie man under your bed.

[mountain grammy]

22. He's a hateful, lying spineless creep.

Pushes every hate button in Texas, and they have an abundance. My husband made a comment to one of his dad's nurses that Cruz lies about everything and the response was "he'll stop Obama from taking our guns." Really!

[PDittie]

23. That, sadly, is

the mindset of the majority of voters in Texas (rural, and dogshit-eating conservative). It's what we have to deal with in Texas. Every God Damn day.

I believe the only answer is to get more non-voters to vote. But that is the heaviest of lifts here.

[Paladin]

18. That low, edgy chuckle you heard was from me.

I would imagine that other long-time Texas liberals here at DU will feel the same as I do, recalling what an absolute cesspool of ugly right-wing spewing the DMN editorial page used to be. Back in the 70's, the only columnist I could tolerate was Bill Murchison, and that was only to laugh out loud at his snotty Victorian writing style (Bill's still around, still writing unintentionally funny columns, probably with a quill pen).

Times change, and thankfully, so has Dallas. Glad to see that, to a certain extent, its paper has kept up with things. And how gratifying it is to have confirmation that absolutely nobody likes Ted Cruz.

[UTUSN]

24. Just thought I'd kick this