Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) plans to take one lucky supporter with him on an upcoming "shooting excursion" as part of a recently launched fundraiser and sweepstakes for his presidential campaign. But there's a catch: the winner may have to endure a background check first.
The caveat is an interesting one given that Cruz helped lead the effort to defeat a 2013 bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales nationwide. The bill, which was championed by President Obama in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, ultimately went down after an intense lobbying effort from pro-gun groups.
In an interview with TPM on Friday afternoon, Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler defended the contest's background check requirement and said it was "not inconsistent" with the senator's track record.
Tyler said Cruz had not taken issue with current system of background checks, but specifically opposed the 2013 bill, which would have imposed them on sales between private individuals.
Still, the background check for the contest may come as a surprise to some of Cruz's supporters.
Hey look Ted Cruz is perfectly okay with the mentally ill or people with criminal backgrounds getting guns and going on a shooting spree, just so long as none of them get close enough to put a bullet in his pudgy ass.
So help me, I would pay a hundred bucks to witness balls-of-steel here trip and fall face first into a steaming pile of fly-covered dog shit.
ReplyDeleteIf you promised to post it on YouTube I'd send you $150!
DeleteI'll be surprised if anyone takes Cruz up on the offer especially after the Dick Cheney hunting surprise years ago.
ReplyDeleteI was going to suggest that us IMers pool our money and try to get Cheney the privilege!
DeleteThere used to be stories that when W traveled abroad, he brought has own toilet with him.
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God that guy is creepy !! Moves like a zombie and has those dead eyes.......
ReplyDeleteHe looks like a rejected mannequin from Mme Tussaud's gallery. The wax is sliding off his face.
DeleteBeaglemom
I always think of those wax museums of horror and his puss reminds me of an effeminate serial killer.
DeleteHe reminds me of Joe McCarthy.
DeleteI agree, Sammy. I was young at the time but I remember the McCarthy witch hunt. Despicable. I think Cruz would do the same if given the chance.
DeleteROFL. Another entrant into the ever expanding "Do as I say, not as a I do" Hypocritical Republican competition.
ReplyDeleteO/T But Telling:
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What a chicken shit....as well as a wise man. Remember... NRA didn't allow weapons at their convention if I remember right.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE irony.
VernD
I can't stand this man. I can almost hear $arah typing up her all caps response to anybody who criticizes Cruz for this
ReplyDelete"A BACKGROUND CHECK FOR GOING SHOOTING WITH MY BELOVED TED CRUZ IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR PURCHASING A GUN THAT CAN BE USED TO SHOOT UP A SCHOOL!
PROTECTING TED CRUZ IS OBVIOUSLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROTECTING CHILDREN.
IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT CHILDREN YOU ARE SPITTING ON THE GRAVE OF OUR DEAD SOLDIERS!!
BTW: ARE YOU EVER GOING TO RETURN MY CALLS, TED? PLEASE"
ssshhh, he has to make 'those' calls to $arah after his wifey is sound asleep.
DeleteNot sure why ANY woman would have accepted a marriage proposal from a Freddy Krueger lookalike but I do understand why Mrs C was found sitting in a daze on the ground near a busy highway.a few years back. The poor dear having to look at that face and listening to that constant madman rant would drive anyone to exhibit bizarre behavior.
I'd settle for pudgy face a la Dick Cheney's friend.
ReplyDeleteRafael Cruz Canadian is a dick, you know, like Ted noogent.
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz - The Original Hypocrite's Hypocrite!
ReplyDeletePOS.
ReplyDeleteWhy shouldn't there be background checks for private sales? Seems to me, those are the very sales there should be background checks for.
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz puts the capitol H in Hypocrite. Then again, most of the Republicans do.