For Ted Cruz, crazy is a family business - By Joan Walsh

[DonViejo]

Ted and his far-right father are having a grand old party wooing GOP primary voters -- and scaring normal people

BY JOAN WALSH

Be careful what you wish for. The Republican Party sought a crop of new leaders with the vitality and ideological fire both Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney lacked heading into 2016. Now they’ve got them, most notably Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s leading the charge to either “defund” Obamacare or shut down the government, to the horror of McCain and other so-called “establishment Republicans” (as if there were any such thing.) Even Tea Party Sen. Rand Paul has maybe kinda sorta suggested that shutting down the government to defund Obamacare is a bad idea — even though he signed Sen. Mike Lee’s letter threatening to do so.

Cruz has no such qualms. Headlining former Sen. Jim DeMint and the Heritage Foundation’s “Defund Obamacare” rally last night in Dallas, he fired up the crowd with his Obama attacks. (Of course, I can’t help but note the irony of Heritage sponsoring Cruz’s “Defund Obamacare” tour when Heritage was the source of one of the plan’s key provisions: the individual mandate to carry health insurance.) Even though some Obama defenders showed up and heckled Cruz, the junior Texas senator and his father were the stars of the night.

“We’ve all seen this movie before,” Cruz told the audience. “President Obama and Harry Reid are gonna scream and yell ‘those mean, nasty Republicans are threatening to shut down the government.’” He went on: “One side or the other has to blink. How do we win this fight? Don’t blink!” Only squishes blink.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/21/there%E2%80%99s_no_cruz_control/

[MindMover]

1. Cruz is a certifiable nutjob that has a knack for the English language ----

be careful all you gun toting racists what you wish for ..... you got it

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Calgary Cruz.

[Sunlei]

3. funny that 'squishes' word, the Rs now use to mock their own little r baggers

salon must be in charge of threat media against their own

little R squishes should unite and stand up for themselves..afterall they voted republican. all they got is a pile of old signs, hot-dog bus rides, & cheap tea-shirts.

[UTUSN]

4. r#6 & k nt

[TeamPooka]

5. Ted Cruz's Dad was for Communism before he was against it. nt

[libodem]

6. Dooode

Don't knock 'squishes' that's what I call my cat.


You haven't had cat love until you've had squishy cat love.

[Blue Idaho]

7. Let's make sure we give him

And his daddy all the airtime they want. Nothing deflates the career of an extremist like public exposure. This half baked Bircher is headed for the trash heap of history.