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re: Ted Cruz is just another Israel-firster Neo-Con.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:21 pm to Numberwang
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:21 pm to Numberwang
Cruz strikes me as the right-wing Obama. An obviously incredibly smart dude who aced Harvard Law* and got into politics within four years, and then immediately learned that when you get in front of a crowd, you need to gear down your brain a lot. Since it's an artifice, they tend to lay it on a little thick, and this gets especially obvious when the audience is actually somewhat educated or experienced in the arena where they're trying to condescend. (It's also why listening to them is like nails on a chalkboard to anyone above the 75th percentile.)
They're also both incredibly egotistical even on a curve for politicians, which is how he can see people booing his simple-arse pandering and translate that as anti-Semitism. Obviously nobody could just dislike him, he's Ted Cruz.
*Spare me any invocations of AA. You might get into Harvard on AA, but you don't get Law Review and magna cum laude, which both of them did, on AA.
They're also both incredibly egotistical even on a curve for politicians, which is how he can see people booing his simple-arse pandering and translate that as anti-Semitism. Obviously nobody could just dislike him, he's Ted Cruz.
*Spare me any invocations of AA. You might get into Harvard on AA, but you don't get Law Review and magna cum laude, which both of them did, on AA.
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 12:27 pm
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Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:32 pm to Numberwang
I'm always surprised at how many people think he's a genius. He may be book smart, but he's incredibly tone deaf if he has genuine aspirations of breaking into national politics.
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:36 pm to Iosh
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losh
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:40 pm to The Third Leg
You have to keep in mind that his preacher-daddy is an evangelical hack who always mixes politics with religion.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:42 pm to Big12fan
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You have to keep in mind that his preacher-daddy is an evangelical hack who always mixes politics with religion.
Yep, Cruz is a very tame version of his Dad.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:43 pm to Big12fan
quote:So you're saying he inherited... dreams from his father?
You have to keep in mind that his preacher-daddy is an evangelical hack who always mixes politics with religion.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:47 pm to Iosh
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Cruz strikes me as the right-wing Obama. An obviously incredibly smart dude who aced Harvard Law* and got into politics within four years, and then immediately learned that when you get in front of a crowd, you need to gear down your brain a lot. Since it's an artifice, they tend to lay it on a little thick, and this gets especially obvious when the audience is actually somewhat educated or experienced in the arena where they're trying to condescend. (It's also why listening to them is like nails on a chalkboard to anyone above the 75th percentile.)
They're also both incredibly egotistical even on a curve for politicians, which is how he can see people booing his simple-arse pandering and translate that as anti-Semitism. Obviously nobody could just dislike him, he's Ted Cruz.
I don't think Obama was anywhere near as polarizing as Cruz is after his first two years in the Senate, and he certainly wasn't throwing red meat to the base like Cruz regularly does these days.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:49 pm to Iosh
Cruz is only paralleled by Steve King. Both likely repressed homosexuals.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 12:56 pm to Iosh
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So you're saying he inherited... dreams from his father?
No, I'm saying an apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:03 pm to Iosh
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An obviously incredibly smart dude who aced Harvard Law*
When it comes to foreign policy he is a radical idiot who was brainwashed when he got made in Israel like most of them
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:07 pm to Numberwang
Cruz is the closest thing to the new coming of Ronald Reagan. He's extremely intelligent and a destructive debater (he doesn't need a teleprompter like Obama).
Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:19 pm to Zach
He wants to convert all of us to Christianity (or is that his father?) No thanks go the f away
Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:20 pm to Iosh
quote:
Cruz strikes me as the right-wing Obama. An obviously incredibly smart dude who aced Harvard Law* and got into politics within four years, and then immediately learned that when you get in front of a crowd, you need to gear down your brain a lot. Since it's an artifice, they tend to lay it on a little thick, and this gets especially obvious when the audience is actually somewhat educated or experienced in the arena where they're trying to condescend. (It's also why listening to them is like nails on a chalkboard to anyone above the 75th percentile.)
They're also both incredibly egotistical even on a curve for politicians, which is how he can see people booing his simple-arse pandering and translate that as anti-Semitism. Obviously nobody could just dislike him, he's Ted Cruz.
This is probably the best summation of Cruz that I have seen.
I liked him for a while when he was playing Rand's sidekick. Not so much anymore.
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:26 pm to JEAUXBLEAUX
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He wants to convert all of us to Christianity (or is that his father?) No thanks go the f away
So he supports Israel, to the complete disgust to Ziegtrackfan, but he wants to convert all Jews to Christianity?
Posted on 9/11/14 at 4:54 pm to Vols&Shaft83
So how does Cruz square this with his Jewish friends? Aren't they going to hell with all the other non-believers?
The way I interpret this is Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddist, and all of us heathens will be headed in the same direction - hell.
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John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
The way I interpret this is Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddist, and all of us heathens will be headed in the same direction - hell.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 5:00 pm to trackfan
quote:Correct,
JDP?
or any other major political factions in functional Muslim democracies.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 5:07 pm to NC_Tigah
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Correct,
or any other major political factions in functional Muslim democracies.
I guess I was too brief. What is JDP? Is that an Islamic political organization that you're a fan of? What was the point of your earlier post?
Posted on 9/11/14 at 5:14 pm to trackfan
quote:The largest political party in Turkey.
What is JDP? Is that an Islamic political organization that you're a fan of? What was the point of your earlier post?
Posted on 9/11/14 at 5:18 pm to NC_Tigah
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The largest political party in Turkey.
Erdogan's party, right? I would also put them on the opposite end of the spectrum from ISIS.
Posted on 9/11/14 at 5:43 pm to Numberwang
I've never understood why Israel firsters are so rampant in the gov't of a 1st world country like us. Japan is one as well and they don't bow to them or give away funding like its candy, maybe Japan being by and largely agnostic has something to do with it?
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