US Sen. Cruz of Texas to visit Ukraine

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

AUSTIN (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will visit Ukraine this month and meet with leaders of the protest movement that forced out the country’s pro-Russian president.

Frequently mentioned as a potential 2016 White House contender, Cruz also will visit other Eastern European countries and Israel on a trip that could be seen as an attempt to build his foreign policy credentials.

Dates and details of his other stops were not immediately released Tuesday by his office. Ukraine has a May 25 presidential election.

The trip is sponsored by Secure America Now, a conservative foreign policy group.

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[geardaddy]

1. fuckwit n/t

[olddad56]

2. He should stay there.

[Zambero]

14. I hear that Chernobyl is nice in the spring

Perhaps Ted could perform another one of his meltdowns there.

[2naSalit]

28. It's only worth our tax $$

for him to go if he stays there, preferably in Chernobyl.

Whatever he does after that is none of my concern.

[okaawhatever]

29. +100 nt

[arcane1]

3. Nothing says "home of the brave" quite like naming your group "Secure America Now"

[cosmicone]

4. He can't see Mexico from his house? n/t

[jmowreader]

24. Probably not, but he wouldn't have far to drive

He comes from Houston. Fifty miles to Galveston, go to the beach, and you can see Mexico fine.

[cosmicone]

33. my post was a joke

to mock sarah palin.

[jmowreader]

35. I know that

Ted is far closer to being able to see Mexico from his house than Palin was to see Russia from hers.

[TygrBright]

5. Dear Ukraine and Everyone Else in the World...

...please accept our apologies in advance for every incredibly stupid, ignorant, bigoted, inane, belligerent remark this assclown makes, and hold it against only the (comparatively) small number of numbwits in Texas who voted for him.

beseechingly,
Bright

[jwirr]

9. Amen

[MBS]

19. you can sign my name, too

How embarrassing for USA, and the potential for damage. . shudder.

[ballyhoo]

6. Great, may as well sent an oak tree...

[sakabatou]

7. Oh great...

[Crowman1979]

8. Oh great! More war cheerleaders.

[Timez Squarez]

10. Can we revoke his passport and force him stateless

and force him to go back to Canada and seek asylum there...

And be rejected... and off to Cuba... and rejected...

[Comrade Grumpy]

11. But is he too extreme for Right Sector?

[EmilyAnne]

17. Cruz and his minions have more power in the US than Right Sector has in Ukraine. nt

[LoisB]

12. Dear people of Ukraine: Please keep him. Thank you.

[DRoseDARs]

21. Dear people of the US: Thanks, but no. We have Russians, we don't want your Canadians too.

[SoapBox]

13. He wouldn't dare to step foot in California.

'cause we would run out this TeaTaliban on a rail.

Oh...so what's he going to do over there? Urge them to join Czar Putin, the TeaTerrorist of Russia?!?

[TexasTowelie]

15. Most likely he is there to support the neo-Nazi contingent that ousted the former president of

Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. Reich wingers take care of their own.

[CTyankee]

16. poor Ukraine! Don't they have enough problems?

[freshwest]

42. +1

[MBS]

18. God help us

(and Ukraine: this is the LAST thing they need right now).
Sigh.

[BlueStater]

20. Can he stay there? Please? n/t

[TBF]

22. As if the people of Ukraine don't have enough

problems right now.

[DeSwiss]

23. So does this mean that Cruz is NOT a ''Putin-Versteher?''

- I thought he like foreigners and such, being that he's Cubanadian and all.....

[AnneD]

38. Is he from..

Canuba?
Oh, wait, that's a car wax. Right. Never mind.

[DeSwiss]

40. !

[elzenmahn]

25. He should provide some sideshow entertainment...

...to the Europeans and the citizens over there, who I believe to be much more in tune with world affairs and harder to BS than the shlubs who constitute the American electorate.

Break out the popcorn and enjoy the show. And do your best MST3K impersonation.

[Purveyor]

26. He will fit in quite nicely with the other nazi-thugs occupying Kiev. eom

[balthazar2]

27. Ted is getting "international experience"

This is so he will have something to talk about on the Sunday talk shows when they ask him about his background in foreign affairs.

This twit is running for President, kids.

[okaawhatever]

30. Quick, let's all email Ukrainians and tell them Cruz is from Canada and that we've never heard of

the guy.

[Skittles]

31. gawd

haven't they been through enough?

[ALBliberal]

32. slightly off topuc

How does he run for president if born in Canada? After all the false allegations of President Obama being born in Kenya, I don't understand.

[jmowreader]

36. The same thing as happened to Romney's father

George Romney, senator from Michigan who was born in Mexico, was eligible because his parents were born here. (Apparently it only takes one.) Back then the GOP had honor and they convinced him to leave the race just to quell the controversy.

Cruz will get out of the race after enough "why isn't this an issue for you, it was for Obama and he was born in Hawaii" questions are asked.

Besides, they have Rand Paul - equally insane, definitely US born.

[ALBliberal]

37. For Cruz to even enter the Republican Primary

Speaks volumes to his lack of honor. Thank you for that reply.

[Jesus Malverde]

34. Thats a pickle for some...

[GeorgeGist]

39. Hopefully they'll keep him.

[Tom Ripley]

41. There he goes...embarrassing Canada on the world stage

[Fearless]

43. Ted Cruz is a weapon of mass destraction