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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Why do people take such an instant dislike to Ted Cruz?
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/neurologist-explains-why-its-hard-to-look-at-ted-cruzs-creepy-unsettling-face/"It just saves time."
So says a Bush alumnus.
3catwoman3
(23,943 posts)...judges of character?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Because he stole votes from Carson. Brilliant. I hate Cruz....do we need another Nixon even with a 1 percent chance? No!!!!
Richard D
(8,741 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)left on green only
(1,484 posts)Can you believe that somewhere there is a person who will have to admit to bringing him into this world?
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)though he's a lot crazier - Cruz is as crazy as a bedbug.
kairos12
(12,841 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Some Congressfolk wanted foreign-born Arnold S to be able to run for Prez.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)kairos12
(12,841 posts)navarth
(5,927 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)Maybe you were being sarcastic, but it's real.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)It means "A face just begging to be punched."
Lucky Luciano
(11,248 posts)My response was that he just needed to be slapped.
Backpfeifengesicht.
Worried senior
(1,328 posts)mostly Republican faces that I want to punch.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)enid602
(8,593 posts)And smarmy, too. I still remember the blog comments by his Ivy League roommates and college neighbors during the last shutdown. Cruz was the one with the dirty socks and bad breath. No friends.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)enid602
(8,593 posts)And yet, there's the other side of his personality. Despite his extremely banal, simplistic and indefensible right wing positions, those who know him best say he's brilliant. He clerked for Rhenquist. He might be the Anti-Christ that the Evangelicals fear!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)navarth
(5,927 posts)Well played sir
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)hate him on sight. Poster boy for backpfeifengesicht.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)you in the back.
He also looks soft, with his midriff wanting to pour over his belt. And his bald spot is only minisculely less ridiculous that Scott Walker's.
He's singularly unappealing physically, even to men, which really says something.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)His roommate at Princeton called him a "complete asshole" and said he gets tweets wondering why he didn't smother Cruz in his sleep.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)You have to wring it out like a grease-soaked kitchen rag. And there's always more, as if the rag is self-replenishing.
He's manipulative to a point beyond what traditional instruments can gauge. The Queen in the Snow White tale poisons an apple, intending to present it to Snow White, then disguises herself and does present it. I see Cruz as holding that example high in his system of personal values. It feels as if he is channeling that apple-poisoning Queen 24/7. Turns out the Queen has tried poisoning several times before, trying to rid herself of this beautiful rival.
Cruz's old man is a nutcase from the word go. More shrewd than smart, the old man has been preaching hellfire and brimstone forever. I don't like his declaration that God has chosen Ted as our next president. I think voters will make that call and I don't think Ted is going to be on the ballot.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)So does bone-deep stupidity. That is disturbing in the extreme.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)to be very intelligent, although his religious cluelessness tends to bring that natural IQ down considerably.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)some things but not enough of those things to represent the truth.
A lot of fundies go to "Bible study" groups organized through their churches. The lessons from Scripture are picked in advance and tend to reinforce the heavy rightwing bias of the church community as a whole. Rafael conducts himself the way pastors of such churches do -- he's at the top of the heap under which all this rightwing "Bible study" is going on. It's propaganda, of course, and not actual study, since actual study would involve critical thinking, and fundies flat-out don't do critical thinking.
It creates a dangerous imbalance. Ted Cruz seems to be a human version of that whole system. Trump is loud-mouthed and bigoted, but Cruz is quiet, bigoted, and darkly mercurial.
Frightening bunch, the Cruz clan.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)not engaged in a mighty troll-job, but he would never torch the planet to bring baby jeebus back. Cruz would.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)for all his bigotry and bluster, doesn't represent quite the level of chaos Cruz does.
I dislike and distrust the entire GOP field. But Cruz is in a class by himself.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)There's just no overcoming that.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)the sight of Cruz makes me yell "where's the eye bleach". Only him. None of the other idiots.
(Although Fiorina does remind me of the wicked stepmother in the Snow White cartoon.)
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)I say that in all seriousness. He gives me the creeps.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the Lizard People.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)AnnieBW
(10,409 posts)To the Lizard People!
The Blue Flower
(5,432 posts)I'm looking for artwork, but she looks exactly like the baddy in this animated film.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Creepy, dishonest and scary.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)2naSalit
(86,308 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Even his kids can't stand him.
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)But I best Cruz is the cause.
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)kairos12
(12,841 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)I read where one of his staffers said the wife took multiple daily showers while in Iowa, because of "the people" there. What a great first lady she would make.
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Even as slimy as Ted Cruz is I can imagine those who fawn over him are considerably worse.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)about a man who looks like a partially melted waxwork of Bill Murray?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I never snort laugh!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)the creepy asshole aura he emits.
He exudes smarmy dick behavior so strongly, if it was a smell you could detect the stench via the internet.
TeamPooka
(24,204 posts)PADemD
(4,482 posts)The Human Face and the Golden Ratio
http://www.goldennumber.net/face/
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)ananda
(28,831 posts)whybdo so many people like him?
AnnieBW
(10,409 posts)Not to mention a Talibornagain.
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)I
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lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)I'm not judging him on his appearance but his outward look really does match his personality.
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bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)tavernier
(12,368 posts)even in his own party. That could be a plus, judging from that particular party of the lowest of low lives. Forget that he is an opportunist and a liar, well proven. Forget that everything he stands for is total crap.
I find it reprehensible that he politics in jeans. One look at him in jeans and I'm forced to throw out every pair of jeans that I own.
It's horrible and disturbing. I love my jeans!
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)which isn't saying much.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)being on the physically fugly side myself and knowing I'm not entirely fugly on the inside then I can't judge someone else that way.
With Cruz I heard him talk one time a few years ago and ever since the sight of his face makes me want to punch him. It doesn't have anything to do with what he said in that talk. I think maybe his overall physical mannerism and the fact his inner ugly just sort of oozes out all the time.
Worried senior
(1,328 posts)KentuckyWoman but I can't help but despise this one.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)for starters.
Also you just know he's the kind of guy whose farts could peel paint. If he gets in the oval office the drapes will stink for at least the next 100 years.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Well, that and he says shit like this:
kairos12
(12,841 posts)Response to kairos12 (Original post)
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)The same reason people don't automatically drop scorpions in their underwear.
Zambero
(8,962 posts)Although Gacy's horrible crimes did not imperil the entirety of humanity, as would Cruz if he was ever in a position to hasten his "end times" fantasies.
shanti
(21,675 posts)oily and slick.