# Is Cancun a fun place to vacation this time of year...? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 18, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240 "2021-02-18T17:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/61 "2021-02-20T00:34:44Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > So a GW Bush marvels at an ordinary supermarket scanner, Minor correction: GHW Bush. One must keep the various elitist Bushes straight. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/62 "2021-02-20T00:39:40Z")
Nope. This a death blow to his reelection and Presidential bids. His enemies, Beto and AOC, were working to help Texans in a crisis and Cruz took a vacation. Then he blames his kids. Cruz narrowly beat Beto in the last election. This is all he needs in the next go round. Or anyone, really. In a crisis, Cruz _abandons_ his constituents. As a columnist wrote, and I cannot find now, the fact that he couldn’t think of any way to help the people of his State is even worse that his vacation in the middle of a crisis where people were suffering and dying. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/63 "2021-02-20T00:51:45Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > One must keep the various elitist Bushes straight. I think one’s dead. ( Not that you’d notice ) ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/64 "2021-02-20T00:59:14Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Cruz narrowly beat Beto in the last election. This is all he needs in the next go round. Or anyone, really. In a crisis, Cruz _abandons_ his constituents. BUT, Cruz does not abandon his gun rights or your fetuses. That’s all that will matter. Cruz doesn’t stand for reelection until 2024. This won’t have any effect on that whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/65 "2021-02-20T01:07:48Z")
I agree. Republican voters have the long-term memory of goldfish. It won’t be an issue in 4 years. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/66 "2021-02-20T01:19:54Z")
> [@Drum\_God](#): > > BUT, Cruz does not abandon his gun rights or your fetuses. That’s all that will matter. Cruz doesn’t stand for reelection until 2024. Republicans who oppose abortion and lie about business AND did not abandon their people in a crisis are a dime a dozen in Texas. He will not survive a primary. [![](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-835a165d8d6479a3b2905090bf20b43f) ](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-835a165d8d6479a3b2905090bf20b43f) > **[Veterans Against Trump-ism... - Veterans Against Trump-ism](https://www.facebook.com/OfficialVeteransAgainstTrump/photos/a.515798188771863/1356182648066742/?type=3&is_lookaside=1)** > > Veterans Against Trump-ism, South Hill, Washington. 43,179 likes · 17,471 talking about this · 2 were here. We are a group that honors and appreciates the sacrifices of American veterans. Trump is a... ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/67 "2021-02-20T01:20:08Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Republican voters have the long-term memory of goldfish. It won’t be an issue in 4 years. An insult to goldfish everywhere unless you’re specifying the cracker(s). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/68 "2021-02-20T01:21:51Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Republican voters have the long-term memory of goldfish. It won’t be an issue in 4 years His Republican opponents will not let it be forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/69 "2021-02-20T01:49:42Z")
It may be an issue in 2. Texas has a lot of purple suburbs. Lotta them have been dark and cold for days. This really drives home that it DOES matter who is in power and that there are personal consequences to electing self-interested idiots. Cruz isn’t running, but he’s the face of the party in TX. It will be brought up in midterms. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/70 "2021-02-20T02:28:19Z")
When the going gets tough, Cruz goes to Cancun! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/71 "2021-02-20T03:46:31Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > As a columnist wrote, and I cannot find now, the fact that he couldn’t think of any way to help the people of his State is even worse that his vacation in the middle of a crisis where people were suffering and dying. Maybe this is the article? > **[Ted Cruz Is No Hypocrite. He’s Worse.](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/ted-cruz-no-hypocrite/618060/)** > > The senator’s error is not that he was deliberately shirking his duty, but that he couldn’t think of any way he could help. > [@David A. Graham - Atlantic staff writer](#): > > It is tempting to turn the “hypocrite” label on Cruz, but his sin is worse. Every politician is a hypocrite at some point. Cruz’s error is not that he was shirking a duty he knew he should have been performing. It’s that he couldn’t think of any way he could use his power as a U.S. senator to help Texans in need. That’s a failure of imagination and of political ideology. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/72 "2021-02-20T13:46:50Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > > [@Kimstu](#): > > > > So a GW Bush marvels at an ordinary supermarket scanner, > > Minor correction: GHW Bush. > > One must keep the various elitist Bushes straight. [Mostly an urban legend](https://apnews.com/article/61f29d10e27140b0b108d8e12b64b839). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/73 "2021-02-20T14:03:06Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > > > As a columnist wrote, and I cannot find now, the fact that he couldn’t think of any way to help the people of his State is even worse that his vacation in the middle of a crisis where people were suffering and dying. > > Maybe this is the article? - > > [Ted Cruz Is No Hypocrite. He’s Worse. - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/ted-cruz-no-hypocrite/618060/) > > > [@David A. Graham - Atlantic staff writer](#): > > > > It is tempting to turn the “hypocrite” label on Cruz, but his sin is worse. Every politician is a hypocrite at some point. Cruz’s error is not that he was shirking a duty he knew he should have been performing. **It’s that he couldn’t think of any way he could use his power as a U.S. senator to help Texans in need.** That’s a failure of imagination and of political ideology. He could think of a way, all right. Asking a Democratic President for help. Unthinkable for a Republican Senator. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/74 "2021-02-20T14:45:57Z")
1. The governor did ask for help 2. That’s not what a senator could or should have been doing. There is no hierarchy from senator to president. There is from governor to president. 3. We needed him locally. Gathering information and communicating it. Helping constituents with complicated, extraordinary problems local systems couldn’t handle. Helping coordinate relief efforts. In this case, what someone like a senator has is a network, and that can be a powerful thing. Fuck, he could have at least helped support local Republicans, whose constituents will be calling their state and US Reps for help and who will remember who helped them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/75 "2021-02-20T14:48:46Z")
Carnival is offering a deluxe trip where you leave senior citizens behind to freeze. They call it the Ted Cruise. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/76 "2021-02-20T15:02:21Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > His Republican opponents will not let it be forgotten. I would honestly be shocked if this harmed him in any way in a Republican primary. Four years from now it will not be “forgotten,” but the outrage will have receded. And Republican incumbents tend to only be vulnerable in a primary to an attack from the right – who’s going to get to the right of Ted Cruz? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/77 "2021-02-20T15:02:33Z")
Will his next public appearance turn into a Boos Cruz? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/78 "2021-02-20T15:03:53Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Carnival is offering a deluxe trip where you leave senior citizens behind to freeze. They call it the Ted Cruise. - Better than listening to Ted Talk. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/79 "2021-02-20T19:31:19Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > I would honestly be shocked if this harmed him in any way in a Republican primary. Four years from now it will not be “forgotten,” but the outrage will have receded. Pretty much. Four years is an eternity in politics. If he had done this right before a primary vote, or heaven help him a general election, it likely would move the needle a bit. But four years out? It will probably mean nothing except to the people who already despise him. No, he’s going to have to fuck up in some major way right before his next election and then someone will dredge this incident up to add to the pile. But it won’t be what takes him down, it will just be spice for the stew. The Comey memo might have cost Clinton the election - two months earlier and it would have been a nothing burger. If Trump had been caught on tape talking about ‘grabbing women by the pussy’ the week before the 2016 vote he probably would have lost. Instead the visceral outrage faded and he became our worst president. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/80 "2021-02-20T19:42:32Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > I would honestly be shocked if this harmed him in any way in a Republican primary. Four years from now it will not be “forgotten,” but the outrage will have receded. And Republican incumbents tend to only be vulnerable in a primary to an attack from the right – who’s going to get to the right of Ted Cruz? Come on, people! On Election Day, Cruz defeated O’Rourke[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas#cite_note-7) by a margin of 50.9 to 48.3 percent; the race was the closest U.S. Senate race in Texas since [1978](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas).[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas#cite_note-8) He nearly lost to Beto **before** aligning himself with election results deniers and riot apologists. **Before** abandoning his people in time of great need, and throwing his own daughters under a bus. > Franken wrote in the book. “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.” Ted wasn’t popular amongst republicans **before** this. He is the very definition of _vulnerable_ now. I imagine Republicans looking for advancement are lining up to take a shot at that seat. He has no ideas, and he has no guts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240.md?page=5)