Minor correction: GHW Bush.
One must keep the various elitist Bushes straight.
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.
I think one’s dead.
( Not that you’d notice )
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.
I agree. Republican voters have the long-term memory of goldfish. It won’t be an issue in 4 years.
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.
An insult to goldfish everywhere unless you’re specifying the cracker(s).
His Republican opponents will not let it be forgotten.
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.
When the going gets tough, Cruz goes to Cancun!
Maybe this is the article?
He could think of a way, all right. Asking a Democratic President for help. Unthinkable for a Republican Senator.
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The governor did ask for help
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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.
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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.
Carnival is offering a deluxe trip where you leave senior citizens behind to freeze. They call it the Ted Cruise.
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?
Will his next public appearance turn into a Boos Cruz?
Better than listening to Ted Talk.
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.
Come on, people!
On Election Day, Cruz defeated O’Rourke[7] by a margin of 50.9 to 48.3 percent; the race was the closest U.S. Senate race in Texas since 1978.[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.