# 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:** 5
**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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/81 "2021-02-20T19:53:08Z")
The Texas Republicans I know aren’t criticizing Cruz at all for his trip to Mexico. If anything, they admire it. The prevailing logic is: 1. If I could go to Cancun right now, I would. 2. A US Senator has no role in handling this crisis anyway. It’s not like he’s going to be climbing utility poles. I’m amazed at how the strongest argument Cruz supporters have is “Our guy is pretty much useless in a crisis.” That’s a ringing endorsement. However, the fact that no one likes him is seen as a positive, not a drawback. Cruz owns the libtards and that is really all that matters. Well, that and guns and abortions. Cruz isn’t going to have a serious primary contender. He’s a loyal Trumpist, he hates the Federal government (in spite of being an integral part of it), he’s pro-gun, he’s anti-abortion in all cases, and the libs hate him. He ticks all the boxes that matter. The fact that he is a raging asshole is irrelevant. ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/82 "2021-02-20T20:03:16Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Ted wasn’t popular amongst republicans **before** this. Cruz isn’t popular among (some) Republican _officeholders_. He’s much more popular among Texas Republican voters. According to [a Morning Consult poll](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Sen-Ted-Cruz-s-approval-in-Texas-GOP-dips-15890894.php), his approval rating among Texas Republicans fell after the assault on the Capitol – from 81% to 76%. That’s still higher than Texas’ other Republican Senator, John Cornyn, who was just reelected by ten points. I’m sure his approval rating will dip again due to this, but I just can’t see this being fatal for him. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/83 "2021-02-20T21:33:53Z")
Wondering if this will make the SNL cold open tonight and who would play Ted Cruz, and would any comedian be able to take enough showers afterwards? ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/84 "2021-02-20T23:05:31Z")
Jeez, even Chris Christie is piling on! > "I will tell you that it’s hard to have sympathy for Ted Cruz, because Ted was right on board making fun of me back in 2017 when I had that incident on the beach.” > **[Chris Christie Has No Sympathy For Ted Cruz: 'Ted Has Just Not Been A Very...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-christie-no-sympathy-for-ted-cruz_n_60313ee6c5b673b19b68b17a?ri18n=true)** > > The former New Jersey governor hasn't forgotten how Cruz made fun of him for that infamous beach incident in 2017. ---
**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, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/85 "2021-02-20T23:13:09Z")
… it does not feel good to be on the same side as Chris Christie against Cruz. It makes me wonder he he has calculated that this will all blow over and that Texans don’t or won’t give a shit about their dead and dying… that no one will do anything about Cancun Cruz in the short run and that in 4 years no one will remember this article. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/86 "2021-02-20T23:22:14Z")
Republicans don’t give a shit about hundreds of thousands of COVID deaths, why would they give a shit about a couple dozen more from the cold? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/87 "2021-02-21T00:15:14Z")
It’s easy for them to pretend that COVID doesn’t exist. Cold, not so much. > **[32 Pictures That Show Just How Freezing Cold It Is In Texas Right Now](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/pictures-of-texas-cold)** > > This is happening in TEXAS. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/88 "2021-02-21T00:22:57Z")
Republicans are pretty fucking stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jungian_camisole1/32/3646_2.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/89 "2021-02-21T00:38:18Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > What new nickname is Cruz going to come out of this situation with? “Cancun Cruz” has a certain ring to it. Princess Cruz. ---
**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 21, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/90 "2021-02-21T01:32:41Z")
The Ooze Cruz ---
**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 21, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/91 "2021-02-21T06:25:01Z")
> [@Drum\_God](#): > > A US Senator has no role in handling this crisis anyway. It’s not like he’s going to be climbing utility poles. No, to handle that kind of crisis in Texas, it takes a U. S. Representative from New York! AOC raises $3M+ for Texas, then goes there to volunteer at a food bank in Houston. But you’ll never see this story on Fox News. Oh, wait a minute . . . > **[AOC raises $3.2 million for Texas amid weather crisis](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-houston-relief-aid-texans-weather-crisis)** > > Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled to Houston with a Texas-sized gift of support for the families suffering from the recent freeze, power outages and water emergency.  ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/92 "2021-02-21T06:37:42Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > The sad truth is that Cruz is unlikely to suffer any real repercussions over this. He has the advantage of time — his Senate re-election and inevitable Presidential bid are both four years away, which is an eternity in politics. You’re missing the bigger picture around this which is that politics has become 99% nationalized which means that Ted Cruz’s fate ultimately depends on the overall electorate and we’ve seen Texas trending more purple for a decade now. Cruz’s trip on top of other Republican leadership mismanagement is another straw that is inching closer to tipping the state blue. His antics may not have convinced the bulk of Republicans but they don’t need to, convincing just 2.5% of Republicans to switch to the Democrats is all that’s needed to flip the state. Plus, you’re assuming that he’s not going to have another scandal in the next 4 years but that seems unlikely for someone with such poor seeming political instincts as Ted Cruz. Scandals multiply on each other because they just serve to reinforce the narrative. Maybe he’ll have another scandal 3 months from the 2024 election that, if he hadn’t had this scandal, he could have weathered but now he can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/93 "2021-02-21T13:34:38Z")
The Texas wing of my family is just enraged, not by Cruz’s actions but by the “predictable piling on of the media to distract attention” from the failing Democrats, the Green New Deal. One of my brothers moved to Texas almost 30 years ago (job related). At the time he was banging the drum about global warming when few people had even heard about it, he took an unpopular stance in favor of gays in the military and used to work in homeless outreach. Now he’s active in a campaign to criminalize homelessness, rants about various “globalist conspiracies”, flirts with Holocaust denial and claims that this cold spell debunks Global Warming once and for all. Walking proof that demography is not political destiny. His kids are pretty liberal, but once they’ve made their first million or two, I fear it’s not going to last. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/94 "2021-02-21T19:35:53Z")
Fun video from The Lincoln Project: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MOnGNSDlZJU/maxresdefault.jpg "Book your Mexican Getaway Now!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnGNSDlZJU) ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/95 "2021-02-22T12:42:56Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > antics may not have convinced the bulk of Republicans but they don’t need to, convincing just 2.5% of Republicans to switch to the Democrats is all that’s needed to flip the state. Or a similar number of non-voters that politics actually has an impact on their lives and it matters who is in power. Again, the repercussions will come up in the midterms. Every Democrat will be running on the “remember, Republicans can’t keep the lights on, and they don’t care”, and Ted on the way to Cancun will be everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/96 "2021-02-22T14:37:41Z")
“Donald Trump may have been a fascist, but at least he made the mail run late.” ---
**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 22, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/97 "2021-02-22T16:39:56Z")
( … the males couldn’t even run down a ramp…) ---
**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 22, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/98 "2021-02-22T23:01:01Z")
> **[Imgflip](https://imgflip.com/i/4z2cq2)** ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/99 "2021-02-22T23:09:04Z")
And now it appears he took his college room mate along as well . > **[Ted Cruz's Cancún trip included his college roommate](https://www.axios.com/2021/02/22/ted-cruz-cancun-college-roommate-birthday)** > > The story behind Cruz's Mexican getaway is even more complicated than his initial explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/100 "2021-02-22T23:38:25Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > And now it appears he took his college room mate along as well Only because his daughters begged him. Once again, he was just being a good dad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240.md?page=6)