My theory on Ted Cruz.

[Conservian]

@R.P.McMurphy

I watched some of his blather today. He can’t be President. A congressman’s salary sounds good but it’s nothing spectacular and he knows there is a lot of money out there to be made by preaching to the choir.

My theory is that he is setting himself up to be the next Rush Limbaugh. Rush won’t last forever. He still has the hearing problem. From what I hear and read, everyone in Washington hates Cruz, Pub or Dem. Ted can come behind Rush and snag a lot of his listeners. He will be the fresher, crazier voice and be able to claim that he is much more educated and has inside government experience that Rush lacks.

I’m thinking that what he is doing is very calculated in that direction.

Now that’s what I call a “Rush” to judgment

[Ca3799]

@NotfooledbyW

There are three prime right wing hate talk radio show hosts on the main station in the DC area. They are Limbaugh, Hannity and Mark Levin. it was interesting last evening to hear Levin spewing his venom usually reserved for Obama, liberals, statists and Marxists now being spewed against the Republican more sane establishment politicians and Pundits.

Levin’s hate and anger was way beyond normal control because it looks like the surrender on the debt limit and shutting down the government by Republicans has clearly arrived. Susan Collins has replaced Cruz as the Republican to follow in the Senate. Paul Ryan leads in the House with no talk about defunding Obama Care.

Levin was lamenting the next Ronald Reagan, by the name Ted Cruz has been shafted by McCain, MCConnell, Boehner, Rove, Fox News hosts, Haley Barbour, Krauthammer etc etc. and how it’s time for his Tea Party masses to cut the Republican Party off at the knees.

Levin has had it.

I believe Levin will lead some kind of radio driven insurrection againt Republican establishment leaders with Cruz as his standard bearer.

Levin is awestruck by Cruz. Levin is on the air three hours a day literally losing his mind for being on the losing side with Cruz in the GOP civil war.

With any luck Cruz will not only succeed at taking the Tea Party and GOP down; he will take right wing hate talk radio down too.

I don’t mean right wing anti-government hate talk radio will go away. It will no longer have mainstream Republicans paying homage and seeking approval from these crazy, annoying and unreasonable radio hosts if the Tea Party secedes from the GOP union.

The GOP will go down but never be fully out once the Tea Party scourge is cast aside.

I think Levin crossed a line last night because of his infatuation with Cruz. In the coming weeks it will be interesting to listen to where Rush, Hannity and the ditto-heads go.

If Cruz intends to venture into hate talk radio - he’ll get there as that form of
entertainment is on the decline as far as big money goes.

It will represent a Cruz led non-governing bitchy grumpy anti-government mostly white male movement that is best at throwing stones. They will amuse themselves until their arms fall off I suppose.

The extremist right will be disarmed we can hope.

I am secretly hoping Levin strokes out on-air. Who can get that froth-spitting mad day after day and still have functioning arteries?

I also noticed he stopped playing almost exclusively patriotic bumper music a while back. I’m sure it polled badly because he has had more current stuff for a while now.

Or actually, that may be Michael Savage with the bumper music- I get those two mixed up all the time.

I do recall when those two were on the outs. Levine kept calling Michale Savage ‘Michale Weiner’, which I guess is his real name. Have they kissed and made up?

[BobLibDem]

My theory is that when Cruz gets home, he shuts the door and laughs hilariously, saying “I can’t fucking believe the rubes are buying this shit!” Like Sarah Palin, he’s a mere tuning fork set to resonate with the farthest of the right wing. He keeps searching for something he can say that will be too nuts even for the Teahadists, and keeps finding out that there is no rightward limit for the nonsense he spews. So he keeps it up, knowing that he can make himself rich from his inevitable presidential run and the book deal that follows.

[Werekoala]

@slowlearner

Make no mistake, Ted Cruz believes in what he’s doing, and he is a citizen by birth and eligible to serve as POTUS, and he is going to run. I would like to be the first to point out that brother Ted looks amazingly like a young Joe McCarthy. Now somebody 'splain to me how my fellow Texians elected a Canadian/Cuban doughy looking girly man to the senate?

Because despite liberal propaganda to the contrary, we care more about what a person thinks than what they look like or where they’re from.

[elucidator]

Who does? Texans? You may be relying on the widespread stereotype of Texans as calmly reasonable and rigidly analytical in their thinking. Kinda like Spock, if he were drunk and packing heat. As a recovering Texan, allow me to assure that this impression is, well, exaggerated. Not in perfect congruity with reality. A bit off the mark.

These are people who elected Ted Cruz, Louie “Goober” Gohmert, and Rick Perry. Now, while it is true that two of them have very good hair, one does not. As this is the only remotely rational reason to elect any these goon bait armadillo molesters to any office whatsoever, your premise fails.

[Werekoala]

You asked why he was elected based on his looks and heritage - I said it didn’t matter. I fail to see why you have trouble understanding my assertion, as it doesn’t conflict with your view on Texas’ voters intellectual acumen.

If I may be allowed to put words in your mouth, “Hurrr Durrr Texans shore be dumbfucks, yuk yuk!”

Whatever helps you sleep at night. Just know that people like Cruz will continue to get elected and will likely become more influential on the national scene as well. Some will like it, some will not. Imagine that, divergent opinions when it comes to politics.

Point stands, his looks and heritage have no impact on voters who agree with his views, despite the stated Liberal worldview that Republicans in general (and Teaparty folks in particular) only support albino Fascists. Not true - they’ll support any Fascist, no matter what he looks like, much like Democrats will support any Collectivist/Communist, no matter what he/she/it looks like.

[elucidator]

I didn’t say he was an albino, nor a Fascist. I do think that if anyone tells him the he reminds them of John Galt, he gets a chubbie…