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With Ted Cruz, Texas' former solicitor general, on track to win a U.S. Senate seat in three months, the far-right Republican is starting to receive some attention from the national media. The New York Times, for example, has a feature on Cruz this morning, emphasizing his "intellectual heft."
The piece quotes a former Cruz professor saying the candidate stood out even among his Ivy League peers as "intellectually and morally serious."
It led Isaac Chotiner to note this gem from a Gail Collins column:
In a blog posting early this year, Cruz vowed that as senator he would fight against "a dangerous United Nations plan" on environmental sustainability that he said was aimed at abolishing "golf courses, grazing pastures and paved roads." He blamed all this on the Democratic financier-philanthropist George Soros.
That's clearly not encouraging, but I'd add that Cruz also authored a proposal in Texas that would allow the state to ignore a federal law it doesn't like, nullifying the Affordable Care Act by partnering up with another state that felt the same way. This stems from a crackpot legal theory that was resolved by the Civil War.
"Intellectually and morally serious"? I'm afraid not.
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Mankind is the only animal that allows idiots and halfwits to be in charge, if this guy was a chimpanzee the rest of the tribe would immediately kill him.
But he is a chimpanzee.
Chimpanzees do not have to put up with derogatory comments like yours!
How do you know?
Maybe the NYT means he has "intellectual heft" , for a Texan. (For confirmation, see Gohmert, Louis)
I like Rep. Gohmert. I watch him on CSPAN and while he delivers his idiotic theories on the House floor, he always smiles, like he is in on the joke.
Maybe Cruz is also. is that "heft"?
Well, he's serious for a Texican Republican, I mean, look at Perry and the rest of the morons. You get outside Austin and Houston and The Stupid gets real apparent real fast.
I'm so glad you included Houston this time...it makes me feel a smidge better...just a smidge. Cruz is as disgusting as Bachmann & Gohmert and unfortunately, we are stuck with him. Even with the demographic change in Texas, the Republican foothold in this state is so deep-rooted in local and state levels that it will take a long while for the Dems to make a comeback.
The New York Times, for example, has a feature on Cruz this morning, emphasizing his "intellectual heft."
What is wrong with the traditional media? It's just sad.
The lamestream propaganda media has been allowed to get away with this "right is left" non-sense as though most of US are the sheeple being led by their opinions. And while the sheeple are quite vocal - all you have to do is listen and see how stupid they really sound! By the NYT "standards" intellectual heft surely isn't equal to what it once was!
He seems more intellectually dishonest and morally vacuous. Anyone who relies on baseless lies to support his greed is not a good person.
And a law that allows Texas to ignore federal laws? Oh please secede Texas. Then no more federal dollars for your oil subsidies, infrastructure, environmental clean up, etc, etc.
Benen - thank you for bringing this up!
"Intellectual heft" = same old Tea Party crazy nonsense - but can correctly spell most words.
Why do Tea Party Republicans hate the United Nations? Tea Party Republicans say they believe in the Constitution - well the Affordable Health Care Act was deemed Constitutional is a law of the land.
So you honor the Constitution only when you agree with it? You obey the law of the land as long as you agree to it? What else does this person want to bring back from pre 1861 - Slavery? Women not having a voice? To the Tea Party the Civil War is GONE WITH THE WIND.
"So you honor the Constitution only when you agree with it?"
Just like they do the Bible...........
Because, as Maj. Frank Burns said, it's full of foreigners.
Steve-
Crus?
So Cruz was just blowing the "Agenda 21" dog whistle. Very popular among the Righties this year
Well, if you put him on the national stage alongside Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Michelle Bachmann, and many of the other Tea Party crazies, he looks good by comparison.
But then, so would my cats. And they show much better judgment and common sense than this clown.
According to my cats, yours should be offended by the comparison. Or so I interpret it; pardon me while I go to clean up.
Great moments in time, somewhere from a southern state resides video of a broke municipality chewing up an asphalt road, removing it and rendering it back to the gravel norm of the depression era, Brooks and Dunn "Red Dirt Road" formulaic pop song comes to mind.
Teahaddists, may have a few more swells to ride, but in Texas, as Ms. M pointed out, purple will prevail over the next few cycles.
The Federal government doesn't take "get off my lawn!" tactics too lightly. Thanks for being right out there, Ted... it makes it so much easier.
I don't have any problem believing that Cruz's professor was impressed with him. Very smart people seem to be just as capable of rationalizing ideas that suit their temperaments and prejudices as much anyone. Perhaps, more so in that they frequently have a great deal of confidence in themselves and ideas.
I love it when they talk. It is like saturday morning cartoons beep beep.
He is an idiot or dishonest or both.
Someone thinks different than a liberal, must be stupid. Like watching my kids fight with each other