Some more "yucky" news for today

[mc51tc]

"Blockbuster $1.5m book deal for Ted Cruz memoir"

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/04/blockbuster-1-5m-book-deal-for-ted-cruz-memoir.html/

"WASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Cruz has inked a blockbuster $1.5 million book deal, agreeing to write a memoir about his brief tenure so far in Washington.

HarperCollins agreed to provide the advance after a four-day book auction last week, according to today’s Washington Examiner, a conservative news outlet. That puts Cruz, the tea party darling and Texas freshman, at the top of the list of potential GOP candidates penning books ahead of the 2016 presidential race.

And it’s the biggest book advance in years for a conservative, topping even the $1.25 million that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin secured after her 2008 run for vice president.

“The book, still untitled and unwritten, will be part memoir and part Cruz’s view of how to get Washington to work again as well as his vision of the future for the country. The 43-year-old has quite a story to tell, being the first Hispanic to serve as Texas solicitor general and as Texas’ senator,” Examiner columnist Paul Bedard reports today.

For now, Cruz lags in early presidential polls. But when it comes to the book advance he has smoked the competition from this and previous years."

I hope this book gets the same negative response that his Facebook postings did last week.

[get the red out]

1. Books for the Koch Bro's to buy up

And to be given out at conservative functions, all to try to make two points appear true: 1) That conservatism is actually popular and 2) That conservatives actually read.

[villager]

2. HaperCollins is owned by Murdoch, don't forget

Still, disgusting there was an "auction" for this cow patty to begin with.

(No offense meant to actual cow patties)

[Gothmog]

3. Normally a book deal like this is prelude to run for the GOP nomination

I would love to see Carnival Cruz be the GOP nominee in 2016.