"Why do people take such an instant dislike to Ted Cruz?

[kairos12]

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]

1. Because we are good...

...judges of character?

[yeoman6987]

27. I love trump at the end saying

Because he stole votes from Carson. Brilliant. I hate Cruz....do we need another Nixon even with a 1 percent chance? No!!!!

[Richard D]

2. Cause he's a dick.

[pangaia]

3. He doesn't have any lips.

[left on green only]

4. "The Joker" Comes To Real Life

Can you believe that somewhere there is a person who will have to admit to bringing him into this world?

[Herman4747]

5. He Reminds Me of Mr. Haney from Green Acres

[hifiguy]

11. And he's as honest as Haney,

though he's a lot crazier - Cruz is as crazy as a bedbug.

[kairos12]

13. I would rather vote for Arnold.

[keithbvadu2]

53. The pig or the Austrian?

Some Congressfolk wanted foreign-born Arnold S to be able to run for Prez.

[hifiguy]

60. Over the Tailgunner ? Either.

[kairos12]

61. I was voting for the pig.

[navarth]

40. Mr. Haney is fucking FDR compared to this Cruz wanker. nt

[rug]

6. Pheromes.

[elias49]

50. Hey. No joke. Very possible.

Maybe you were being sarcastic, but it's real.

[nichomachus]

7. The Germans have a word for it -- backpfeifengesicht

It means "A face just begging to be punched."

[Lucky Luciano]

48. LOL!! My aunt posted a picture of Cruz on Facebook entitled "eeww!!"

My response was that he just needed to be slapped.

Backpfeifengesicht.

[Worried senior]

73. I have a list of

mostly Republican faces that I want to punch.

[AgadorSparticus]

8. Because he LOOKS as swarmy as his ideas and beliefs. He truly is REPULSIVE

[enid602]

79. no friends

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]

80. That too. I saw that. You KNOW it's bad when his college roommate goes out of his way to diss him

[enid602]

82. yes

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]

9. He looks like a Picasso done on a greasy pizza box

[navarth]

41. LOL

Well played sir

[hifiguy]

10. That nauseating smirk is enough to make you

hate him on sight. Poster boy for backpfeifengesicht.

[lunatica]

86. It's the smirking lips combined with the fake doleful innocent eyes batting at you while he stabs

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]

12. Alternative answer: It's in our genes to recognize immediately a flaming asshole.

[hifiguy]

15. Everyone who's ever known him hates him.

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]

14. For me it's the religiosity. His and his old man's.

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]

16. Religulous insanity does have a weirdly self-renewing quality.

So does bone-deep stupidity. That is disturbing in the extreme.

[saltpoint]

18. Yes. Ted is hard to listen to. He's said

to be very intelligent, although his religious cluelessness tends to bring that natural IQ down considerably.

[Jim Beard]

56. I agree about his father. A true nutcase.

[saltpoint]

58. Rafael is one of those people who know

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]

59. Trump is loathsome, assuming that he is

not engaged in a mighty troll-job, but he would never torch the planet to bring baby jeebus back. Cruz would.

[saltpoint]

70. I have the same fear on Cruz. Trump,

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]

17. He makes my skin crawl.

There's just no overcoming that.

[LiberalElite]

19. Of all the numerous morons on the GOP clown bus -

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]

21. If it is one day revealed that Cruz is a pedophile, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.

I say that in all seriousness. He gives me the creeps.

[hifiguy]

23. That or that he is one of

the Lizard People.

[Solly Mack]

24. I can see that. Skin sloughing on live TV to reveal the monster beneath.

[AnnieBW]

37. That's insulting

To the Lizard People!

[The Blue Flower]

46. Fiorina looks like Medusa in Disney's The Rescuers

I'm looking for artwork, but she looks exactly like the baddy in this animated film.

[suffragette]

75. He's got that Falwell/Bakker/Swaggart televangelist vibe

Creepy, dishonest and scary.

[Solly Mack]

88. And icky. Don't forget icky.

[suffragette]

89. Sleazy and icky.

[2naSalit]

20. He's just got bad juju.....nt

[Rex]

22. Because he is a horrible pretender.

Even his kids can't stand him.

[Major Nikon]

26. Body language

[yeoman6987]

28. Apparently his wife I've very depressed. Not sure what the deal is

But I best Cruz is the cause.

[Major Nikon]

31. I can imagine having to be around him for any length of time must take a toll

[yeoman6987]

42. Definitely

[rusty quoin]

45. OMG that is funny as shit. I won't post what I was about to. I can't beat that one.

[Rex]

51. LOL!

[Maynar]

52. Perfect.

[kairos12]

68. Maximum DUzy!!!! Spewed my water funny.

[lumberjack_jeff]

71. Spot on as usual. n/t

[Contrary1]

81. I think Cruz and Heidi are from the same mold...

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]

84. I'm not sure I blame her

Even as slimy as Ted Cruz is I can imagine those who fawn over him are considerably worse.

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Because there's something inherently creepy...

about a man who looks like a partially melted waxwork of Bill Murray?

[Kali]

30. !

[hifiguy]

34. DUzy!

[lunatica]

87. You made me snort laugh!

I never snort laugh!

[Aerows]

29. It's because of

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]

32. Would you buy a used car from this man? No. nt

[PADemD]

33. His face does not reflect the Golden Mean.

The Human Face and the Golden Ratio

http://www.goldennumber.net/face/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

77. His face does reflect *mean*, though.

[ananda]

35. My question is ...

whybdo so many people like him?

[AnnieBW]

36. Because he's a douchebag

Not to mention a Talibornagain.

[yuiyoshida]

38. HE REMINDS THEM OF SOME BODY!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

62. Lol

I

[lpbk2713]

39. He looks like he's been eating lemons and dill pickles every day of his life.

I'm not judging him on his appearance but his outward look really does match his personality.

[bkkyosemite]

44. He gives me a creepy feeling

[tavernier]

47. Forget the fact that no one likes him...

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]

72. Like .01%er Romney in jeans.

[bearssoapbox]

49. First thing I thought when I saw him was "smarmy".

[KentuckyWoman]

54. That's one of the better likenesses I've seen of him

which isn't saying much.

[KentuckyWoman]

55. i'm not ever one to judge by the cover

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]

74. In the same boat

KentuckyWoman but I can't help but despise this one.

[Binkie The Clown]

57. What's not to hate? It's a no-brainer. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. Because he's smarmy, and it saves time.

[B Calm]

64. Because Trump said Cruiz is a nasty man.

[Warren DeMontague]

65. His head looks like its some sort of semi-viscous paste being squeezed out of the neck of his shirt

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]

66. Christo-Fascists have a way of making one's skin crawl.

Well, that and he says shit like this:

[kairos12]

67. The guy is flat out vile and evil.

[orpupilofnature57]

76. Persona ? Then he talks ? Dr Evil ?

[Half-Century Man]

78. Inbred survival mechanism?

The same reason people don't automatically drop scorpions in their underwear.

[Zambero]

83. The uncanny resemblance to John Wayne Gacy in clown makeup?

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]

90. he's like rumsfeld

oily and slick.