Ted Cruz doesn’t have a prayer: Why the Texas senator will never sniff the White House

[DonViejo]

Cruz embodies everything that is wrong with modern politics. Even the American public can see through the charade

MATTHEW ROZSA, THE DAILY DOT

Despite what he wants you to think, Ted Cruz is not the great anti-politician of our time. In fact, he may be our most potent symbol of everything that is wrong with modern politics.

This would be hard to believe if you’ve been listening to him, of course. He desperately wants to be thought of as the one principled man in Washington—at least if your values hew closely to those of the Tea Party—but that posturing has alienated much of the party establishment. Ted Cruz attributes that development to them being “squishes,” while the rest of the world suspects it’s because Cruz is the kind of guy who goes around calling his co-workers names like “squishes.”

Of course, being a showboat is forgivable in American politics; if it wasn’t, Bill Clinton wouldn’t still be as popular as he is today. The bigger problem with Cruz is that the thematic basis for his showboating—that he won’t sell out like the rest of the Washington phonies—is a whole lot of bunk, like the rest of his campaign. After all, Googling ”Ted Cruz lies” pulls back an astonishing 7,890,000 results, and on Twitter, the two phrases are basically synonymous.

We can start with the lies, which have been lovingly chronicled by pundits like George Zornick of the Nation. “Politicians lie. It’s almost non-controversial,” Zornick notes, before adding that “elected officials are advocates who want to show themselves and their causes in the best possible light. Nobody tells the whole truth.” The Cruz-ian fibs that he lists include such claims as the federal government threatening to shut down churches and hospitals which don’t alter their religious beliefs, ISIS crucifying Christians in Iraq, and crime rates rising in areas with stricter gun control laws.

more
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/28/ted_cruz_doesnt_have_a_prayer_why_the_texas_senator_will_never_sniff_the_white_house_partner/

[leftofcool]

1. Salon can't put out an article that doesn't mention either Bill or Hillary

in a negative way. I would have agreed to everything written about Cruz but I stopped after Clinton and showboating.

[brush]

2. This egomaniac just likes the spotlight

He's like Cain and Huckabee in a way. You get celebrity treatment and opportunities from running for president — book deals, radio and/or TV shows, pundit slots on FOX, lucrative speaking fees — whether he wins is not really that important to him.

It's all about the running and bathing in attention.