Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will announce his presidential bid on Monday during an address at Liberty University in Virginia, NBC News confirms.
Cruz, a conservative Republican famed for his staunch opposition to the president's signature health care law and his executive actions on immigration, will become the first GOP hopeful to formally announce a White House run.
A person with knowledge of the announcement tells NBC that the senator will announce the bid during a convocation ceremony at Liberty, a Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia.
It looks like the GOP clown car just got it's head clown.
In preparation for this announcement Cruz has threatened to strip same sex couples of marriage rights, frightened small children, and of course demonstrated complete ignorance about Climate Change.
Sadly that might in fact endear him to the conservative knuckledraggers who vote in some of the primaries, but it will get him laughed off the stage as the field starts to narrow.
As I have said before I simply do not understand the attraction the Right Wing has for this guy.
They keep touting his intelligence but I personally have seen NOTHING that convinces me that he is smarter than a Rick Perry, or even a Sarah Palin. That's right, a Sarah Palin!
Oh well, I guess rather than trying to figure it out I will simply sit back with my popcorn and enjoy the train wreck.
That sniveling idiot will never be president.
ReplyDeleteI don't care what degrees he has.
Liberty University... "Freedom from Facts"
DeleteAs I said before, "You Cruz, You Lose!"
DeleteSuch a smarmy expression on that butt ugly face. It is amazing how some people's ugliness goes all the way to the bone.
ReplyDeleteTo my eye, he looks like he's about to cry -- and thinking, "Don't hit me!"
DeleteI was going to say 'There's a face for radio', but then I remember how annoyingly awful his speaking voice is too. Icky man.
DeleteM from MD
Its not intelligence. Its preaching. That is what the regressives like about Cruz. He emulates his daddy and reels the rubes in with his talk about hell, President Obama, and about a thousand fear mongering lies any crazy jack leg preacher could dole out at a tent revival.
ReplyDeleteWatching the crazy GOP clown bus may be even better than in 2012.
Cruz is a 7-mountain Dominionist, and any thinking person should be terrified of his cult.
DeleteTed Cruz is the child of an angry abusive, and ignorant man, and has drunk the kool-aid of theocracy.
DeleteCruz is a tool of the ultra right 7 mountains crowd, and has reportedly been "anointed" as a king in their world of delusion.
Barry Goldwater summed up the Ted Cruz's of this world with his scathing and pinpoint indictment of their conflation of religion, lawmaking, and politics;
Quote:
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”
I have seen the lunacy of man they call the will of God...
DeleteFuck Ted Cruz
ReplyDeleteFuck Sarah Palin
Wake up people!
http://firedoglake.com/2015/03/22/the-new-deplorable-american-order/#comments
Cruz - Born in Canada, to a USA mother, eligible to be President.
ReplyDeleteObama - Born in USA to a USA mother, obviously Kenyan.
The hypocrisy is amazing.
DeleteYeah, waiting for the birthers to crawl out of their holes for this one. Not.
DeleteStill remains to be seen if Rafael's mother still had her US citizenship and how long she was out of the country when he was born.
DeleteI want to see the proof and I am not kidding!!!!
Show me the Birth Certificate of Ted "Calgary" Cruz...
DeleteWell Cruz wont mind a DNA test will he?
DeleteWhenever I see his face I just want to punch him. He is ugly inside and out. That arrogant smirk shows what he is like with any kind of power.
ReplyDeleteI have read in several places (sorry I don't have a link) that he really is not that intelligent, he just has a photographic memory and uses it to simulate intelligence. Don't know if it is true or not.
Don't think I need to say, I cannot stand the man.
Like many (most?) Republican politicians today, he seems to be willfully ignorant (when facts contradict his fundamentalism) and/or pathologically ambitious (does and says anything to get elected). It is a shame that what I consider credible candidates like Jon Huntsman (remember him?) aren't conservative enough for the radicals running today's GOP.
Delete"Whenever I see his face I just want to punch him."
DeleteYea... Me Too!
If he went to school with me I would have been a bully...
I wasn't but only because Ted "Calgary" Cruz wasn't there...
Yes, I read an article in Time (I think it was) about Cruz, and his photographic memory. Couple that ability with his outsize ego, his penchant for arguing and his extreme Dominionist beliefs, and you've got a person about whom to be very, very afraid. With any luck, all of the 7 Mountains stuff will be unearthed by the media.
DeleteCanadians are known for being very polite, even painfully so. One trait is for Canadians to be known for saying sorry in so many situations where others might say, excuse me, pardon me, etc. Most times, to others, it seems superfluous but it has its place. This is one. Let me be the first Canadian to say, with all sincerity regarding Cruz, SORRY!
ReplyDeleteToo funny!
DeleteWe'll keep Justin Bieber if you take back Ted Cruz.
DeleteDeal???
I don't want to ungrateful but ... how would you ship Cruz? Sorry for feeling a need to ask. Oh, and sorry to just clarify but Bieber did recently say sorry for being a bit of a d**che you know so depending on the shipping plans for Cruz, you may have to sweeten the deal. Sorry.
Delete@Anonymous6:11 PM
DeleteI don't want to ungrateful but ... how would you ship Cruz?
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How else would you ship Prime Ham?
Honey glaze, studded with cloves (sweet enough?), all wrapped tightly in tinfoil, with a caution label because it is only half-baked!
Sweet enough. Deal.
DeleteCruz's ego is much too gigantic to fit into any size container. Sorry folks, you get to keep him. We still have hopes for an adult Bieber (!!!).
DeleteCruz's ego is much too large to fit into any size container. You'll just have to keep him. We're still hoping for an adult, responsible Bieber to emerge....
DeleteIsn't he dreamy?
ReplyDeleteIf you enjoy night terrors, I guess.
DeleteOh yeah you know he gets me wet........... When I vomit all over myself.
Delete"Isn't he dreamy?" is what it looks like Teddy is saying in that picture, while lustfully looking at Scotty Walker!
ReplyDeleteAww, wook at dat wittle face! Isn't he just adowable?
ReplyDeleteYes I too want to punch him. And push that face into a cake baked by SP, and then kick his arse while he's getting up.
There are few people that engender such a visceral reaction but he's definitely one of them.
Seriously, that face is the living definition of the word "Putz."
DeleteWhat I find most hilarious is that Liberty calls itself a "University".
ReplyDeleteGAG ME! Pandering with Jebus!
ReplyDeleteThis from Glenn Beck Facebook page:
Ted Cruz called me Friday night to chat for a few minutes. We spoke of the importance of Prayer.
We talked about being dedicated to pouring your heart out and then
listening to His response. He and his family spend two solid hours on
their knees seeking the face of The Lord.
We have done this too
as I am sure you have. If so, you know what a blessing and a miracle it
is when your little children join and can make it.
We all have
things we need others to pray for, but may I ask if you will pray for
Ted and his family for the next twenty four hours.
Please alert all of your friends.
We need Godly men leading our country and when they step to the plate, the very jaws of hell will gape open at their feet.
Please share this will all you know. We need The Lord now more than
ever. He is just waiting for His people to humble themselves and turn
back to Him.
Pray with a contrite spirit and humble heart for Senator Ted Cruz and that The Lord will heal our land.
Heal our land from what? No, really you doughy old lumber-quack, heal our land from what? Impoverished families on government assistance? AP history classes? Affordable insurance? Do tell, o contrite of heart. Tell us who the real villains are.
Deletehey Glenn, the only true man of God in the White House was Jimmy Carter, and we know how much you respect him and his good deeds then and since. You and Cruz can say you are on your knees two hours a day all you want..like nonexistent pictures of our 'Muslim" POTUS praying five times a day to Mecca...they are lies.
Delete"...the very jaws of hell will gape open..."
DeleteAn image of Bristol's open legs comes to mind.
As for Cruz being on his knees, well, that's a frequent Republican stance.
"We need Godly men leading..."
DeleteGodly women need not apply.
"He and his family spend two solid hours on
Deletetheir knees seeking the face of The Lord."
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Oh, please. Every time Cruz is in front of a mirror, he's sure he's looking at the face of the Lord.
He looks like he's gotta take a shit
ReplyDeleteHe looks like he is in the middle of it and realized he forgot to drop his pants.
DeleteThe creepiness factor with this fellow is off the charts.
ReplyDeleteI can't decide if he favors an older version of Eddie Munster or a younger version of Grampa Munster. Either way he is a thing!
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me that, with all the money to be had for the GOP this year, they can't come up with a physically attractive set of candidates.
ReplyDeleteI'm being totally superficial, of course, but the set of a man's jaw, the look in a woman's eye, the set of their shoulders -- all these things denote character. One doesn't need to be a Hollywood star, but one needs to show strength, intelligence, and enthusiasm.
The Republicans: Ted Cruz, who looks like someone just stole his popsicle; Scott Walker, who looks like the used car salesman who's about to corner you when you're looking at models on the floor; Ben Carson, who seems like something out of The Simpsons; Rand Paul, who can't erase his shear, no matter how hard he tries. Chris Christie, who's one double-stuffed crust away from a major heart attack; Jeb Bush, whose visage is just close enough to his brother's to be repellent.
Koch Brothers: you're failing if you can't buy better candidates than this.
Rand Paul's sneer, not shear.
DeleteWas that a Freudian reference to what you want to do to his poodle hair?
DeleteThat stuff can't be sheared. It has to be yanked off like a bandaid.
DeleteCruz's stolen popsicle look is very similar to the "my viagra isn't working" look.
DeleteBravo! Your descriptions of this pathetic bunch of losers are spot on!
DeleteOh yes. Lovely and Fluffy!!! Like satan in sheep clothing. don't buy it
ReplyDeleteteddy and sarah perhaps?
ReplyDelete2:52 PM That is funny.
DeleteMore like Teddy and Paul Ryan again..the budget slicers.
DeleteThis guy knows he can't win. He just wants to get his name out there to sell books and up his speaking fees. Does that sound like someone we know? Here's hoping that his exposure causes actual exposure that ruins him. Will the clown car candidates conspire to not go after each other in the primaries? Which of them can resist trying to step on the others to be the flavor of the month?
ReplyDeleteI'm not so sure he doesn't think he can win. He a smarmy bastard with a chip on his shoulder. I'm not saying he doesn't want publicity and money, only that he also thinks he's better and smarter than everyone else.
DeleteI agree Cruz is just trying to up his name recognition to improve his speaker/lobbyist outlook. I also think the shock of having Senator Tom Cotton seize the senate newbie rabid idiot position has rattled Cruz. Cruz is compelled by his personality defects to suck up media attention. Cruz hasn't been feeling the love lately.
DeleteThis idiot is a psychopath. There are plenty of others like him.
ReplyDeleteNot to be taken lightly. He will bring destruction at the expense of all of us , if he can.
I'm looking forward to the falling-out between this idiot and the Alaska idiot.
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz is seriously the smarmiest, ugliest man I've seen!
ReplyDeleteI am in full agreement/ Creepy times 10.
DeleteLet the games begin LMAO Liberace and Rosemary's love child is the first to toss (allegedly) his red clip on nose on the caboose.
ReplyDeleteLet us sharpen the knives, boys; fresh meat!
DeleteActually the pictures above looks like Cruz is giving Marcus Bachmann that adoring look...
DeleteThis is sure to be hysterical. The man is a cultural dork. He lives in an imaginary world.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately his imaginary world seems incredibly overfunded. Where does a dork like this get his cash?
DeleteCruz always makes me want to shower. swarmy is an understatement. Slimey!
ReplyDeleteYou'll notice he's not announcing his candidacy in his home state, Texas. That's because he's made a lot of enemies here, many who voted for him here regret it, and King Perry probably stomped his foot and wagged his little finger at him and told him no.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few people in the media whose faces just make my skin crawl. I can't even look at them. It has nothing to do with how attractive or unattractive they are, it's just something about their faces that I find repulsive. Ted Cruz is one of them.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's because I also find his personality and his values repulsive as well.
What about a birth certificate?
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows that he was born in Canada, but it's okay if you are a Republican
DeleteSetting aside for a moment that you can LOOK at Cruz and know that he's never going to be President, I continue to wonder:
ReplyDeleteIf President Obama's four years in the Senate was not suitable experience for the Presidency, why is Cruz and Paul's four years in the senate sufficient experience?
Isn't Teddy up for re-election in 2016? I know it is legal to run for both Sen and Prez in the same election in TX, but has he said that he will? Hope someone asks him tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read from people who have worked with him, Mr. Cruz is very smart, but is a cunning asshole who is trying to appeal to a bunch of idiots. He's a repellant character according to those who have worked with or near him.
ReplyDeleteI want him to run. I doubt he will pull any punches campaigning against other Republicans. I'm looking forward to a dirty-trick, enlightening Republican primary race.
ReplyDeleteEverything that the rightwingers held against Obama will be ignored with Cruz and Paul.
ReplyDeleteIsn't announcing that you are going to announce a run for president the same thing as announcing that you are going to run? Why bother with the news conference tomorrow if he's already killed the suspense.
ReplyDeleteAnd funny how being born in Hawaii to an American mother is suspicious is you are a Democrat, but being born in CANADA to an "American" mother is quite alright if you're a Republican.
And they don't even see the hypocrisy.
Once a candidate makes a formal announcement of candidacy, election laws kick in.
Deletehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/22/us-usa-election-cruz-announcement-idUSKBN0MI0G720150322
"But once he has declared his candidacy, his political operation will face more legal restrictions. He will have to file a fundraising report in mid-April, for example, while others will not have to disclose their finances until mid-July.
While non-declared candidates like former Florida governor Jeb Bush can solicit million-dollar checks for their political organizations, Cruz will not be able to ask supporters for more than $5,400, the maximum contribution allowed for candidates."
Yeah! Where are the statements from Orly Taitz and Donald Trump.? In this case, he'll just pass himself off as a world cruz.
DeleteNo one will ever elect a man that always looks like he's about to break down and cry.
ReplyDeleteWho votes for crying John Boehner? I want to send him to the time out corner.
DeleteGryphen, you go right ahead and mock Theodore "Pablo" Cruise if you want to, but I'm here to endorse his candidacy. Finally, America has the chance to elect a REAL Canadian to the presidency and it's about time! Things havent worked out so well having a Hawaian president, have they? At least where Ted comes from they speak English!!! (And French, also too.....) Listen, I'm not stupid. I know he has as much chance being elected president as Trump, Carson, Santorum, Jindal, McCotter, Christie, Pawlenty, Rubio, Bachmann, The Screechy Wretch(tm), Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Paul Ryan, Ryan Paul, Ron Ryan, Meg Ryan, Meg Griffin....
ReplyDeleteBELDAR !!
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Liberal, James Carville, said Cruz is the smartest republican in office today.
ReplyDeletedid Carville say whether he was smarter than a grape?
Delete"Smartest" is all relative.
"“I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years,” Carville said."
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We are talking a very low bar when we talk about "talented" or "fearless" republican. Also, neither "talented" nor "fearless" equate to "smartest."
Carville certainly wasn't praising Cruz's view, opinions, or stances.
I think what will do Cruz in will be his megalomania.
He is more intelligent than Sarah Palin because he actually graduated from college.
ReplyDeleteAnd he's just as big of a media whore as she is. He will do whatever it takes to get his name out there. The more it is spoken the more memorable his name will be for whatever reason and he doesn't care what that reason is. He is leading the republican infighting, he's a charlatan and proud of it. Sarah is a has-been and he's determined to outdo her. He's Sarah in a skirt...Sarah is aging badly..he wears suits and a tie so he smarter *snark*.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/23/donny-deutsch-ted-cruz-morning-joe-msnbc-mika-_n_6923150.html
ReplyDeleteDonny Deutsch: Ted Cruz Is Sarah Palin, He's 'Completely Unelectable'
Sure Cruz is against executive actions, until he's the President, then he'll be all for them and sign more than any previous president.
ReplyDeleteTeddy? Ain't gonna happen. We will NEVER have a President Cruz in this country. At least not a President Ted Cruz. In other words. YOU will never be President.