Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi, was once so depressed that a police officer wrote: "I believed that she was a danger to herself."
The incident happened in 2005 shortly after Heidi quit her high-powered job at the White House and moved to Austin, Texas, to be with her husband, who was state solicitor general.
Police responded to a 911 call about a woman in a pink shirt sitting next to an expressway and found Mrs. Cruz sitting on the ground ten feet from speeding traffic with her head in her hands.
I believe this was probably the day that she realized, "Oh God, I'm married to Ted Cruz!"
However the good news is that Heidi Cruz, or the "Stepford Wife" as I like to call her, is all better now:
She rebounded from her depression and now says:
“I want to use it to strengthen people around me and to recognize that we all have rough patches.”
Well of course she is doing better now, that anti-depressant medication is the shit.
Now I think we finally have the answer as to how ANYBODY could be married to such a disgusting POS. Clearly she is well medicated.
A really tacky interpretation of the Yahoo post. I'm disappointed.
ReplyDeleteOf course you are...
DeleteOf course. You are solely here to criticize everything.
DeleteNo meghan, I'm not here to criticize everything. The post was smarmy, in my opinion. A level below the usually witty posts. Curious response from you, though.
Delete11:35
DeleteHeidi Cruz reaps what she has sown. She signed up for this.
No shit, Sherlock?
Delete¡Vete a la mierda! Eres un idiota, Gryphen.
Delete¡Chíngate tu madre! @1:13
DeleteWell why wouldn't she get depressed? Look at him. LOOK AT HIM!!!
ReplyDeleteThey both have a weird thing going on under their nose. Are they somehow related? See how her nose comes down and the upper lip is thin?
DeleteThat's the first thing that struck me---dear universe, she looks almost exactly like him!
DeleteJust change the hairstyle and color (for both of them) and the resemblance is unmistakeable.
As is the naked ambition.
Narcissism on both their parts?
They do look alike! They both look like Danny DeVito as the Penguin in Batman Returns.
Delete1:31, you’re right they do look a like. Also notice how her smile resembles his.
DeleteYup. I just came here to say that she looked like she could be his sister. YUCK.
DeleteOnce again Gryphen showing his true class.
ReplyDeleteA fellow human, depressed and possibly suicidal, and you have jokes.
Clinical depression, mental disorders, can completely destroy an individual, if it doesn't kill them, and affects so many lives around them. I don't care who it is, it is no joking matter. And if this lady recovered and wants to help others, bully to her.
I bet you fell the same way about Bristol Palin being "PRO-LIFE"! Bully, indeed!
DeleteI don't think she's "recovered", she's stomping the campaign trail for him.
DeleteWhat other is she trying to help by campaigning for her disgusting husband?
DeleteMost mental illness is nothing you recover from, it's something you treat for a lifetime.
DeleteSo I think she is fair game, how can she attend to the First Lady activities and functions if she's sitting on the south lawn wondering if she should go play in the traffic or not.
Depression is not necessarily a lifelong disease. There is something called situational depression that can occur to anyone in a situation such as divorce or after being fired from a job. In her situation at the time of moving to another geographical area of the country after leaving a job she no doubt loved could very well cause a depression in someone. We may like to joke about it being because she just married Cruz, but that too could have contributed to her depression being that she is now in a permanent situation with a new partner she is not used to living with. How many people have had doubts after they just got married? I think most of us have been in that situation. I know I was, and in my case the problem was justified and it never went away for 9 years until I got a divorce.
DeleteAny ways, don’t just assume that she has a mental problem with depression until you hear it from her, or her doctor.
I say that, but if I was married to someone everyone seems to hate and is an asshole, I would have been institutionalized and would have welcomed it.
Excellent points, m baker.
DeleteI agree, there are different degrees of depression, and not all depressed people are diagnosed with clinical depression. I'd rather have them err on the side of safety anytime someone voices concern they may be a danger to themselves. I wonder if she passed a background check to own a gun?
Deleteyeah - an Eagleton attack. Making fun of a candidate's wife's struggle with mental illness is low.
ReplyDeleteI think you should boycott IM! That will teach us! Please, please.
Delete11:57
DeleteLOL
To recap; Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D/Missouri ran as VP candidate with George McGovern against Nixon in 1972. As you suggest, his life became hell when the media attacked him for his treatment for depression.
DeleteAs is mentioned below, Kitty Dukakis was the wife of the Democratic candidate running against G.H.W. Bush in 1988. Betty Ford was also treated badly by the media.
However, NOTHING concerning candidates or their wives/husbands is out of line on this blog. There is a difference between reporting facts and going full-bore on candidates as was done to Eagleton.
Wild Tortoise
Eagleton, Dukakis and Ford were all crucified by REPUBLICANS. This was a practice the Rs began and practiced to perfection. Since Sen. Anchor Baby seems to welcome being despised by everyone, including members of his party, I don't see this as out of line. It proves my belief he's a sociopath. And just how much did Mrs. Cruz (formerly of Goldman Sachs) have to do with those large loans the Senator failed - oops! - to declare?
DeletePoor Cruz, the hits keep coming since his non-disclosure of campaign loans. What next -- he really isn't eligible to be president?
ReplyDeletefirst Sarah
then Bristol
next Gov. of Iowa
plus this story about his wife is getting traction
Yeah, Bristol Palin has so much political influence.
DeleteLook who she's married to, it's no wonder she was depressed.
ReplyDeleteNow she acts like the perfect Stepford wife.
I'd hate to wake up and look at him in the morning. I wouldn't be able to stand it.
Same thing happened to my neighbor and she was married to a macho, xenophobic, narcissistic, and sexist idiot! The poor woman recovered (somewhat) after she divorced him. Seeing how Cruz is with his little girls and wife makes me think of my neighbors...sad!
ReplyDeleteYes, she has good reason to be depressed married to that POS. But, I agree that families should be off limits and it seems unkind for an opposing campaign to dig this up. And of course, Cruz will spin this as the liberals are the REAL ones with the war against women.......
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like get, start your own blog. Or leave.
Delete11:53 After the Palin KKKlan, nothing and no body is "off limits". The internet itself proves that..
DeleteExpose the RUSEs!
Are you sure it was the opposing campaign that dug it up? Everybody hates Ted.
DeletePoliticians are such a bunch of back stabbing, double talking, shit slingers.
Hey, 11:53 AM! Have you not figured out yet that wives and kids ARE, in fact, fair game? Social media has emphasized it being done even more.
DeleteIt will no longer EVER be off base! Americans seem to love reading all the crud that continually comes out - especially when it concerns those issues connected to politicians and entertainers.
Trump is emphasizing it even more today in his world of nastiness and evil.
Cruz is doing that dance already.
DeleteI'd be careful about posting about Heidi Cruz. She's not running for any office and this feels a lot like trying to smear Hillary by bringing up her own spouse's shortcomings.
ReplyDeleteHeidi Cruz signed up for this shit
DeleteNot only did she sign up for this, she signed her innocent daughters up for it too.
DeleteHeidi Cruz was instrumental in securing the Goldman Sachs campaign loan.
DeleteMeghan Phillips,
DeleteJust. Go. Away.
Please
She is actively campaigning so she did sign up for this.
DeleteWhy, troll? Only people who agree with you are allowed a voice? Piss off.
DeleteAgreed 12:59.
DeleteMeghan Phillips annoying repeat poster.
Hey, 12:59 and 1:11, if you don’t like it don’t come here. You’re nothing but a troll, and no one likes a troll. More than likely your from the Pee pond which unlike here she screens her comments that are negative, even if it’s true. C4P can’t handle anything that is true and negative about Palin. They simply live their lives in a bubble and their ignorant and delusional comments prove it.
Deletem baker do you are getting dangerously close to annoying also.
DeleteYou're not the moderator here! Piss off!
DeleteShut up meg.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovjr-QNOQT8
Megan I'm sure these "people" are in fact one poster whose really earning their troll-bux today. I like your comments, you are smart and funny. How dare anyone tell Megan to "go away". Go suck a toads ass, troll.
DeleteWhat's up fakey?
DeleteLeave MALOE alone, 6:50. Oh, and by the way, bite me if you don't like Megan's and MALOE's comments.
DeleteI am a Texan and hate Cruz with a passion but this is a tacky, cheapshot kind of a post, especially from someone so boastful about their job with people who've been challenged by mental illness.
ReplyDeleteGryphen knows how to push all the right buttons. Heckuva helluva job, if you ask me.
Delete11:53 am Gryphen did not invent the post, the Main Stream Media did.
DeleteHey 11:53, I live in Texas and despise Cruz with the fire of 1,000 nuclear bombs and think this post is fine. Considering this event, how often has Sen. Anchor Baby tried to improve mental health care treatment or delivery in his career? Last I saw, Sen. Baby was still trying to repeal the ACA.
Delete"I believe this was probably the day that she realized, "Oh God, I'm married to Ted Cruz!""
ReplyDeletepost of the week
I only see Gryphen telling us about the life of the wife of Cruz. We've all wondered how she's maintained staying and being married to the jerk! Cannot imagine!
ReplyDeleteI'll add that I'm sure the drugs have helped her through it!
I seem to remember when Tipper Gore was fair game. Why do the rules always change when the Republicans are under the microscope? So, we won't be attacking spouses for their confessed depression, starting....now!
ReplyDeleteHey Gryphen, I'd be more interested in hearing how Cruz reconciles his health care policy with his wife's serious illness. Before Obamacare, Texas was hell for parents of mentally ill children,who were often forced to give up their parental rights in order for their child to qualify for state care. I was lucky and could liquidate my retirement. Cruz wants to take us back there, despite knowing how devastating these illnesses are.
ReplyDeleteLet's be better than the Repugs and focus on the issues.
12:05 LET'S???
DeleteHow in the hell did the Ted Cruz Damage Controlls find us?
ReplyDeleteLook I typically have tons of empathy for those with a true mental illness, but if you get depressed because you married a slimy POS I tend to have less.
And let's not forget that this woman allowed Ted Cruz to procreate. If that is not a crime against nature then I don't know what is.
No Ted Cruz is easily the most disgusting, vile candidate in this race, and I really cannot think of ANYTHING I could say about him, or those who support him, that would be over the line.
Many of $arah's fans still support Cruz. You know how to get their goat Gryphen. Thanks.
DeleteSorry to hear that. You claim to know about mental illness but what you describe is situational depression (depressed because of who she is married to). The article describes chronic depression. This can be treated like any chemical imbalance with modern drugs. The fact that antidepressants worked is almost diagnostic.
DeleteNo one is trying for damage control that I see. No one is denying that she has depression. All people are saying is that linking it to her husband is petty and low. Criticism of your post isn't trolling, it's a reminder that everyone can sometimes cross a line and a lot of people who read here think that this post does.
Gryphen, are you Heidi's physician?
DeleteAlso, what is "true mental illness"?. I'm not familiar with the term.
Thirdly, you assert she is better due to antidepressant use, yet claim she's depressed because of who she's married to. Which is it?
Lastly, why is someone who disagrees with your almighty opinion labeled a troll?
Thanks for a great post, 12:20. You're far more thoughtful and knowledgeable than Blog Boy.
DeletePerfect words 12:20.
DeleteIntelligent breakdown and human compassion for the clinically depressed wins.
Gryphen @ 12:05..EXACTLY RIGHT..PERIOD!
DeleteHeidi Cruz is a part of the scandal at Goldman Sachs. Why do you think that they were given campaign loans that they conveniently forgot to report to the FEC? Maybe Cruz' strictness and fake religious views depressed Heidi Cruz.
DeleteTed Cruz is a:
DeleteP-ompous
R-epugnant
I-rresponsible
C-ynical
K-ink
Thank you, Gryphen! ITA Let the bricks drop on Ted Cruz: wife abuser, child abuser, fraud, Goldman-Sachs lackey, possibly not in possession of the proper paperwork that would make him an American citizen, and supporting son of a crazy a$$ Dominionist preacher.
DeleteOh yeah, that belief in "the end times" is just what we do not need to move our country forward.
Your are right on this one.
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DeleteAgain, Gryph, from where did you get your medical degree?
Over the line, big time.
The poor woman has to go through life with a name like Heide, then she marries and has kids with someone who reads Dr Seuss for a living, hell I'd be depressed too!!!
DeleteCruz declined to contribute to SarahPAC.
ReplyDeleteCruz, no $$$$, no endorsement. Got it?
That is sad. Is this how Trump and Palin are going to get rid of Ted Cruz? I never liked him but I don't care for Trump or Palin either.
ReplyDeleteI've often wondered what it's like to be married to a reviled, repulsive man disliked by everyone in Washington. Their life must be lonely. Poor Heidi.
ReplyDeleteWhat's with the high gloss, bright lights lips of these celebrities? Palin's got her pepto bismal gloss, now this one?
ReplyDeleteThis has Karl Rove's finger prints all over it.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that Mrs Cruz suffers from depression. Does Ted really care about her and wonder how the unrelenting stress of being First Lady may affect her? Think of the hateful personal attacks Michelle Obama has had to face. I'd think one would have to be very mentally strong to survive with your psyche intact.
ReplyDeleteGood point 12:13. It makes you wonder if Cruz’s ego and narcissism is so high he doesn’t think about how his decisions might affect his family. I hope her depression is only situational and not chronic. If her depression is chronic, then he is thoughtless about others, especially to those in his own family. It wouldn’t surprise me from everything we have heard about him from his dorm roommate to those who know him in the Senate. And yes, it does seem as if everybody who knows him hates him.
DeleteVery shortly after he won his seat in the Senate he started his Presidential campaign by traveling the country making speeches. He couldn’t even wait until he made a name for himself in the Senate, and even then he shut down the government as a political trick to get notice. In doing so he angered his own party and Boehner later called him a “jackass”.
So you're saying she was almost a dead dog in the middle of the road?
ReplyDeletedead bitch
Delete1:08 Your comment is over the line. This gratuitous pettiness pisses me off, Gryphen.
DeleteWell, poor woman. i don't like to make fun of anyone that is so mentally ill, however, she must know what she is married to, and stays with him. Whether her illness preceded her marriage or was caused by it, she has my sympathy.
ReplyDeleteClearly she is well medicated.
ReplyDeleteAren't most of the GOP? Except Sarah Palin, of course. You will never find her sitting on a road. Private jets, baby!
But wait, in the ads for her "Amazing America" series, she was doing exactly that--sitting by a highway. Granted, she was apparently happily hitchhiking, which really is an even worse message.
DeleteBut wait, in the ads for her "Amazing America" series, she was doing exactly that--sitting by a highway. Granted, she was apparently happily hitchhiking, which really is an even worse message.
DeleteI can be both sympathetic to her in terms of dealing with depression and disgusted by the fact that she stands with and by Ted Cruz.
ReplyDeleteSame here
DeleteIt's unfortunate but hardly surprising that someone who married Ted Cruz and allowed him to procreate has emotional problems.
ReplyDeleteOT-THIS IS A MUST, and The SOONER the BETTER> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/19/ammon-bundy-and-his-gang-must-go-to-jail.html
ReplyDeletePalin to endorse Trump, per the NYT:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/us/politics/donald-trump-sarah-palin.html?_r=0
I suppose you trolls were just as outraged by the treatment of Kitty Dukakis by the press and the GOP?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was.
DeleteI was as outraged. I also (a Dem) thought Dukakis should not be running for President given his wife's (known) issues.
DeleteAnon at 2:13 pm, do you feel the same way about Ted Cruz? I think he should withdraw from the race because of the stress on his family but I doubt that he cares two hoots about that.
DeleteBeaglemom
If they can go after Kitty Dukakis, there is no reason why Cruz' wife should get a pass.
DeleteIt is official. Palin will endorse Trump. Hot from the New York Times.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/us/politics/donald-trump-sarah-palin.html
Heidi won't like this one bit.
Making fun of mental illness is never funny. Love ya, Gryph, but that's a low blow.
ReplyDelete+1, Walter
DeleteAgree with you, Walter. There are likely many reasons to dislike or make fun of someone who'd marry Ted Cruz, but a mental health crisis is a shitty reason. Anyone who attacks Cruz based on this will look like an asshole. Ted Cruz is a piece of shit all on his own, no need to focus on his wife's depression.
DeleteShe's the one who sat right there by Mr. Cruz, In a campaign ad, when they put that little daughter up to theatrically bashing the ex-secretary of state. So, what's up? She's disturbed enough to use her little girl like that? Putting hate and mockery into the voice of a child?
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz is a royal piece of shit. It's really hard to find sympathy for the person who married him. I hope she's conquered her depression for her own and her children's sake. As long as she stands by Ted Cruz, that's where my sympathy ends.
ReplyDeleteAll joking aside clinical depression is not funny. And she was sitting on the side of the road...big deal. It's just hard to feel any sympathy for someone so closely associated with Cruz, his dad, and his ilk considering the hateful things they say.
ReplyDeletehttp://gawker.com/track-palin-was-charged-with-assault-last-night-1753857153?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
ReplyDeleteIt appears Track is in trouble with the law again.
Gryphen ... NEW POST
ReplyDeleteTRACK ARRESTED
http://gawker.com/track-palin-was-charged-with-assault-last-night-1753857153
Bill Clinton has been fair game to the GOPEE so she's fair game. Sorry, the first spouse has many duties to attend to in the WH and they need to be mentally stable to do so.
ReplyDelete...at taxpayer expense for really great healthcare. When depression hits anyine else- Cruz doesn't support them having decent mental healthcare coverage.
ReplyDeleteThe Cruz family now has a plan they got through the ACA, last I heard. Which I believe may have better mental health benefits than whatever she had in the mid-2000s.
DeleteThey both have the same shit-eating smile.
ReplyDeleteJeebus Effing Keyrist, Gryphen, what are you taking today? First the Marine thing, now using his wife's depression to slam Cruz? As for anti-depressants, if you've never needed them, don't mock them. I owe my life to them, and so do a kazillion other people. sheesh
ReplyDeleteShe should have left him years ago; now she's in it..fair game. I don't feel sorry for her. She had a choice.
ReplyDeleteHang it there, Gryphen! You did no wrong by me. Ted Cruz is a POS. His family values are Fair Game.
ReplyDeleteOh for god's sake! Thus woman worked for Goldman Sachs in a high level position, and before that for Bush. She IS fair game for whatever the press does to her because she has aligned herself with a sociopath who would withdraw any shred of support from any other human, including the mentally ill. I KNOW depression, and I would never expect to be excused for putting fame and power and money above my humanity. She is hideous.
ReplyDeleteGOP family values. Where was Cruz while this was happening? Things like this don't just switch on and off, Ted put himself and his career before his wife's health, and Gryphen's the bad guy for pointing it out? Pffft.
ReplyDeleteI don't like Cruz at all, but his wife should be off limits.
ReplyDeleteThis woman is wife a freshman senator.
DeleteMichelle Obama is the FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES with two lovely, smart, well behaved children.
And she has been smeared and mocked and attacked from the moment she came on the national scene. And so have the girls. There is such an utter disrespect for her, it's appalling. So no, no wives of men who might eventually have their hands on the levers of power and whose spouse would traditionally become the first lady, who suffers from a mental illness, is not OFF LIMITS. No way, know how. In fact, she should be scrutinized even more so.
And I say this having lived with unipolar depression my entire adult life. I KNOW what it is and we don't want a first lady who suffers from it.
I suffer from it too. I have no problem with a public figurehead in the same situation. It might wake the world up about an illness which destroys millions of lives. I, for one, would be happy to have such a visible advocate for better treatment for this Hell on Earth.
DeleteGood lord, the vapors! You smug, self righteous asshats need to shut the fuck up. This woman is fair game, absolutely. She is a potential first lady with mental illness. The pressure of that role is huge and non stop and her unfitness to fulfill the role should be brought up and made available to voters. Why the hell not. Ted doesn't hesitate to use his KIDS to spew his vile and disgusting positions, so he made her and them fair game. Get over it and take your judgements and criticisms over the C4P. Gryphen knows EXACTLY what he is talking about and he knows exactly how to gauge his commentary and in this case he is RIGHT ON.
ReplyDeleteBecause we are supposed to be better. Mary Todd Lincoln was batshit crazy and somehow the nation survived.
DeleteI despise Ted Cruz and I am not a troll.
ReplyDeleteBut, personally, I can't make fun of someone's depression.
Just my 2 cents. Flame away if so inspired. Love, V
Sounds like the Cruz family put this info out before the opposition did it.
ReplyDelete"She rebounded from her depression" sounds like they are the ones making it sound like depression is no big deal.
I'm betting the reason was a massive fight with Raphael about religion, and how GOD DEMANDS TOTAL SUMISSION OF WIVES TO THEIR HUSBAND,
ReplyDeleteie. Ephesians 5:22
Imagine being trapped in a marriage where any decisions you want to make for your life,career, child care, education, or even what you wear have to be "approved" by your husband.
These hard core extremist Christians have a sad legacy of wife abuse, child abuse, and run their homes like a 12th century pope.
Unreal
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