Five Things Everyone Should Know About GOP Senate Candidate Ted Cruz (Won TX tonight)

[Ruby the Liberal]

This is Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat.

From Think Progress (links to all claims as well as full explanations are on the original article)

Today, Texas Republican primary voters selected Ted Cruz as their candidate to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX). Cruz, a former Solicitor General of Texas and law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, is among the nation’s most skilled Supreme Court advocates. Yet his considerable intellect is rivaled by his very poor judgment. Here are just five of the most revealing windows into Cruz’ Tea Party worldview:

1) Ted Cruz Believes George Soros Leads A United Nations Conspiracy To Eliminate Golf

2) Ted Cruz Wants To Gut Social Security

3) Ted Cruz Wants To Party Like It’s 1829

4) Ted Cruz Is An Islamophobe

5) Ted Cruz Campaigned On How He Helped Texas Kill A Mexican

http://thinkprogress.org/?p=619461&preview=true

[alp227]

1. NY Times report about the election

Tea Party Favorite Wins Texas Runoff

It's texas, so I guess Cruz will most likely win. In the meantime, Texas DUers/progressives, please get out there and get active for our side's candidate PAUL SADLER this summer! Yes I know Texas can get HOT in the summertime, but still.

[Tx4obama]

2. Kick! Btw, he won the GOP primary run-off BUT he has NOT won Texas yet :)

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/31/619461/five-things-to-know-about-gop-senate-candidate-ted-cruz/

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Sorry - used their headline and didn't know how to fit

the TX Primary race context into the title space.

Thanks for the link - and good luck defeating this clown!!! This guy is terrifying.

[sakabatou]

3. ...

[Avalux]

5. Ted Cruz is as extreme as humanly possible, I think.

I've been subjected to his political ads for the past months, one of them features Palin.

What else does anyone need to know? He's a looney tunes, and now, he may be on his way to the Senate.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. Sadler for Senate

http://sadlerforsenate.com/

Ted Cruz certainly needs to be defeated - sounds waaaaay to the right of Kaye Bailey H.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Wow - this guy is a total loon.

Kicking this with more links/information on him from Mother Jones:

The Texas GOP Just Nominated a Gay-Hating Conspiracy Theorist for US Senate

[Bolo Boffin]

11. I disagree - it's also BS posturing for this one.

He's not an idiot, he's a con artist.

[area51]

8. Ted Cruz believes

that the govt. shouldn't provide health care.

So if he wins the general election, he'll of course purchase his own health insurance policy and not suck off the govt. teat, right?

[WI_DEM]

9. Whose the Dem candidate? Any chance of an upset in November?

[freshwest]

10. Paul Sadler. Here's the ActBlue link to donate to counter the Koch bucks.

https://secure.actblue.com/page/sadlertx

Main page to learn abourt Sadler:

http://sadlerforsenate.com/

Sadler Says Cruz Does Not Represent Texas

More videos to learn about Sadler here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SadlerForSenate?feature=watch
https://secure.actblue.com/page/sadlertx