Five Conspiracy Theories That Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz Actually Believes

[pampango]

George Soros leads a global conspiracy (Agenda 21) to abolish the game of golf. In a January 2012 article published on Cruz’s senate campaign website, the future senator argues that a twenty year-old non-binding United Nations resolution signed by 178 nations including the United States under President George H.W. Bush, is actually a nefarious plot to “abolish ‘unsustainable’ environments, including golf courses, grazing pastures, and paved roads.” Cruz attributes this plot to a common tea party boogieman — “[t]he originator of this grand scheme is George Soros, who candidly supports socialism and believes that global development must progress through eliminating national sovereignty and private property.”

Communists infiltrated Harvard Law School. According to Cruz, “There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.” Cruz’s claims came as a big surprise to Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, a Republican who served as President Reagan’s solicitor general, who says that “I would be surprised if there were any members of the faculty who ‘believed in the Communists overthrowing the U.S. government.’”

Islamic law threatens the United States. Cruz told a senate candidate’s forum last year that “Sharia law is an enormous problem” in the United States. In reality, there are barely any examples of Islamic or Sharia law even being mentioned in American legal proceedings, and when it is mentioned it is typically because a contract, will or other document drafted by a private citizen invokes Sharia law, not because the court wishes to replace American law with something else.

Obama wants the immigration bill to fail so he can campaign on it in 2016. In reality, a path to citizenship was a key prong of the immigration bill President Bush supported in 2007. It’s also a major prong of the Gang of Eight bill — a gang which includes Republican Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ). So if the path to citizenship is actually an Obama plot to give himself a campaign issue, Obama has some unexpected co-conspirators in this scheme.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/01/1946211/five-conspiracy-theories-2016-hopeful-ted-cruz-actually-believes/?mobile=nc

All of this may actually help Cruz in the republican primaries where wackos tend to rule. It will be interesting to watch him try to do a "Mitt" and backtrack from them if he wins the nomination.

[Marcuse]

1. Cynicism

I doubt Senator Cruz believes all of his own propaganda. I watched him tell tea partiers that the President's Gun Safety bill was a "done deal" but for his filibuster.

On the other hand, during debate he did smugly challenge Senator Feinstein to name the titles of books that could be banned consistent with the First Amendment. She could have replied that WMD has the same relationship to the Second Amendment that child pornography has to the First.

[hrmjustin]

2. Welcome to DU my friend!

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Run, Ted, run!

Cruz/Nugent '16! Even more entertaining than when granny got her hair caught in the wringer!

[perfrog]

4. Apology and Shame

To the world: I apologize for the misguided citizens in Texas ever voting Mr. Cruz into ANY political office. Obviously his fathers Christian beliefs were ignored(steal from the poor, aged, young, less fortunate, and handicapped by cancelling all benefitting programs, and giving the savings as tax breaks favoring the more fortunate) His beliefs in conspiracy theories is an embarrassment for Texas.

I will stand with Natalie Maines in shame in Texas, for allowing the escape of G.W., Rick Perry, and Mr. Cruz into the general public. Please forgive us.

[hrmjustin]

5. Welcome to DU my friend!

[dballance]

6. Thanks, but really not necessary.

I think most people on DU understand that not everyone in the red states votes for those tea bagging extremists. I have progressive friends in Dallas and Austin so I know not everyone in TX is a freak.