"Cruz is basically offering moral support to the angriest and most paranoid individuals who find a home in the Republican Party."

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COMMENTS: 
*  No one seems to be paying Cruz much attention now, so he's looking for ways to get attention. Poor guy. He's starting to ramble.
*  And this is not a stupid backwater hick. This is an educated man whose words are not spontaneous but instead are intended to be incendiary, not just for headlines, but to appeal to the lowest forms of life in today's GOP. He's stays just shy of urging armed rebellion. He's a verbal terrorist and a traitor claiming to be a patriot. Just an all around horrid human being.
*  See, Cruz is proof that there is a radical difference between being smart and being "book smart". Cruz is the latter. Regarding the former, he is a "vigorous" moron.
*  Toad Crude never surprises. These latest remarks of his are so offensive that they mean nothing, so incoherent that they only reveal his own disordered mind. He has always been irrelevant to the presidential race, and thus will never be a candidate to take seriously. He remains exactly what he has always been, unchanged from the day he was created by Dr. Frankenstein.
*  Cruz fancies himself a HERO, the rescuer, the savior of the USA. He has to level these accusations so he can envision himself riding in and saving the day. In short, he is deluded.
*  The big tent of the GOP is smelling foul with too much in it. The religious right should start their own "Party of God" and the uncompromising "Tea Party" should get out of the tent as well, leaving the good ole fiscal conservative Republicans. Only then will we have two reasonable primary campaigns and, hopefully, two reasonable presidential candidates. It's unfair to the GOP ad the US to have so many morons campaigning.
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Ted Cruz hits low point in Republican rhetoric
By Michael A. Cohen, October 15, 2015

It seems that barely a day goes by when a Republican presidential candidate doesn’t say something either awful or offensive.

Whether it’s Mike Huckabee tweeting out that he trusts “Bernie Sanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my Labrador,” or Rand Paul saying that LGBT workers shouldn’t lose any sleep over being fired because of their sexual orientation since “if you are gay, there are plenty of places that will hire you,” it’s been a healthy and fierce competition to see who can take the fastest route to the political bottom.

But it is Ted Cruz who has truly hit a new low.

In commenting on Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate he derided it as “more socialism, more pacifism, more weakness, and less Constitution” and “a recipe to destroy a country.” He complained that “we’re seeing our freedoms taken away every day, and last night was an audition for who would wear the jackboot most vigorously” and “for who would embrace government power” for stripping away “your and my individual liberties.”

Let’s put aside the fact that wearing a jackboot most vigorously makes no sense; and that it’s pretty strange to call Democrats weak pacifists and then complain that they are jackbooted tyrants.

The real problem here is that Cruz’s language is verging on incitement. In a polarized political environment, in which Republicans increasingly view Democrats as illegitimate, to suggest that a Democratic win would lead to individual liberties being taken away and the country being destroyed is the height of irresponsibility.

Cruz is basically offering moral support to the angriest and most paranoid individuals who find a home in the Republican Party. Rather than toning down the country’s growing polarization, he’s throwing gasoline on the fire. And considering that the GOP has basically become the party of unfettered access to guns, Cruz’s rhetoric takes on an even more troubling hue.

Cruz isn’t running for Congress or Senate, he wants to be the president of all Americans. To suggest that one of the country’s two political parties represents a clear and present, jackbooted, danger to the rights of individual Americans should frankly be his ticket out of national politics.

Instead, considering the extremism of the modern Republican Party, he will probably get a boost from it.
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