# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/101 "2021-02-22T23:43:21Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Only because his daughters begged him. Once again, he was just being a good dad. I think that’s also why he led the insurrection in the Senate. His daughters begged him to overthrow the election and, gosh darn it, a good dad can’t say no to an impassioned plea by his daughters. ---
**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 22, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/102 "2021-02-22T23:50:20Z")
Ted Cruz called Mr. Trump a “pathological liar” who was “utterly amoral,” a “serial philanderer” and a “narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen.” But only because his daughters begged him. One again, he was just being a good dad. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/103 "2021-02-22T23:54:43Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > And now it appears he took his college room mate along as well . Yeah. . .his “roommate”. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/104 "2021-02-23T01:45:07Z")
And someone hired a mariachi band to play outside of Ted’s house. > **[Mariachi Band Plays Outside Ted Cruz’s House After His Cancun Trip](https://www.scarymommy.com/ted-cruz-mariachi-band)** > > After leaving his home state during an emergency situation, some friendly Texans decided to send a mariachi band to Cruz's house upon his return. So, Ted’s original intent was to fly with his _ **10** _ and _ **12** _ year old daughters to Cancun and _drop them off_? Was he going to help them check into the hotel or just stick them in a cab at the airport and hope for the best? It’s just such a lame story - if his wife was with them there was no need to _drop them off_ and if he really was the only available adult…Ted, a week in Cancun isn’t soccer practice — they’re _ **children** _, not teenagers. They might need a parent…Jeez… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/105 "2021-02-23T02:45:46Z")
It’s not like we don’t carry _thousands_ of 10 & 12-year olds around the world without accompanying parents every single day of the year. This is a made-up cover story so lame a 2yo can poke holes in the reasoning. Oddly, Fox thinks it’s an airtight alibi. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/106 "2021-02-23T02:59:33Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > And someone hired a mariachi band to play outside of Ted’s house. Well, now I am jealous. No one ever hires a band to play in front of my house! ::pouts:: I’m still waiting for that corner taco truck I was promised too… 😉 ---
**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 23, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/107 "2021-02-23T03:19:00Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Well, now I am jealous. No one ever hires a band to play in front of my house! ::pouts:: > > I’m still waiting for that corner taco truck I was promised too… > > 😉 Somewhere, in a bar in old Mexico, Quentin Tarantino tells a joke about Ted Cruz to a bartender… ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/108 "2021-02-23T12:48:08Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > And someone hired a mariachi band to play outside of Ted’s house. Priceless! > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > So, Ted’s original intent was to fly with his _ **10** _ and _ **12** _ year old daughters to Cancun and _drop them off_ ? I believe Ted is one of those Republicans who sees no problem with _unaccompanied minors_ being ~~taken from~~ dropped off by their parents at the border. 🤨 ---
**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 23, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/109 "2021-02-23T16:33:28Z")
Now Cruz is blaming the media (of course) for the bad publicity of his trip, because the media is "suffering from Trump withdrawal.” With a bit of whataboutism regarding Governor Cuomo thrown in. > “You dropped off your daughters in Mexico, you came home in a day, probably less than a day,” Hannity declared. “And here you have a scandal with Governor Cuomo barely mentioned on these so-called other news networks.” > **[Ted Cruz: The Media Is Obsessing Over My Cancun Trip Because of ‘Trump...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-says-the-media-is-obsessing-over-his-cancun-trip-because-of-trump-withdrawal)** > > “They don’t know what to do, so they obsessed over my taking my girls to the beach,” Cruz told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night. ---
**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 23, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/110 "2021-02-23T17:15:48Z")
If I am not mistaken, there has been a news story about Cuomo nearly every day, ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/111 "2021-02-23T19:54:52Z")
Yes. But on MSM those stories have been about the bad crap Cuomo did. On RW fantasy media they’ve been about how the MSM has been ignoring Cuomo’s crap. So of course Cruz would say something like that. It plays to his base. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/112 "2021-02-23T20:30:03Z")
Question: who had more fun in the long run? 1. Ted Cruz in Mexico? 2. Ken Paxton in Utah? [Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Utah during devastating winter storm | The Texas Tribune](https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/22/ken-paxton-utah/) 3. Or the millions of people stuck in Texas with no heat, electricity, food, or water? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/113 "2021-02-23T21:35:21Z")
Cruz’s wife is pretty cheesed off at whoever in her chat group leaked the conversation to the press. Naturally, they are blaming the Democrats who live on their block. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cruz-says-wife-is-pretty-pissed-her-cancun-group-texts-got-leaked](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cruz-says-wife-is-pretty-pissed-her-cancun-group-texts-got-leaked) > [@](#): > > “We’ve got a number of Republicans who are neighbors but we’ve also got a number of Democrats with folks on our street who put up Beto signs, which I thought was a little rude,” Cruz said, referring to his 2018 Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke. Let’s see, what was Cruz’s dog’s name again? Oh yeah, _Snowflake_. Seems oddly appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/114 "2021-02-23T21:53:50Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Cruz’s wife is pretty cheesed off at whoever in her chat group leaked the conversation to the press. Naturally, they are blaming the Democrats who live on their block. [![](https://i.imgur.com/n4wqQfO.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/n4wqQfO.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/115 "2021-02-24T17:06:56Z")
And that isn’t even the snowflakiest thing in that article. That award goes to Cruz for calling out neighbors that put up Beto yard signs as “rude”. ---
**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 24, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/116 "2021-02-24T18:51:01Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > That award goes to Cruz for calling out neighbors that put up Beto yard signs as “rude”. How dare they indicate they’re voting for someone else! ---
**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 24, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/117 "2021-02-24T19:13:25Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > That award goes to Cruz for calling out neighbors that put up Beto yard signs as “rude”. > There were even some “folks on our street who put up Beto signs, which I thought was a little rude,” Cruz said, referring to his 2018 reelection race against former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke. > > “You know, I didn’t, like, hold a victory party on their front yards when we won,” he said. What. an. asshole. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/118 "2021-02-24T19:31:41Z")
Anyone know if Cruz has put up his own sign at his house when he was running? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/119 "2021-02-24T20:08:46Z")
Or did any of the other neighbors in on the street put up Cruz signs? How rude! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240/120 "2021-02-24T20:13:38Z")
When the neighbors put the Beto signs up, Cruz should have had the decency to move to another street. How rude! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cancun-a-fun-place-to-vacation-this-time-of-year/933240.md?page=7)