Ted Cruz made a name for himself...

[jmowreader]

I got an AP wire service photo...the caption they attached to it, which probably won't be in any paper, reads "Ted Cruz made a name for himself by leading the tea party charge toward shutdown."

Unfortunately for him, the name is "mud."

[dorkzilla]

1. a--hole, more like...n/t

[Loudly]

2. Should I want him as the Republican Presidential nominee?

If his name is mudd and his reputation doomed except among an extreme corps of party activists, should he be our dream come true of an opposing party's candidate for the Presidency?

It would certainly allow the United States to define itself clearly and unequivocally.

And it would expose birthers further, if that were possible.

[jmowreader]

10. No. You should not.

We can't rely on an electorate that's sick to death of Republicans to keep Ted Cruz out of the Oval Office; the country is way too polarized and there are too many voter-suppression schemes in effect. If that man is on the general election ticket, there is about a 60-40 chance he could win the presidency...and that's forty percent too high for me.

[Loudly]

12. I think you just called Democrats on their Br'er Rabbit treatment of the man.

We privately don't want to face him when he seems to have mojo with discontented voters.

Discontented voters are too easy to suck into a general election waged on nihilistic terms.

But who knows. There might actually be a majority of discontented voters who are ready to vote on existential terms.

[rurallib]

3. "shit-fer-brains"

[Ellipsis]

4. He made the cover of Bloomberg as... The Mad Hatter. GRAPHIC WARNING

[libdem4life]

6. It's almost, but not quite, embarrasing. The pinky is an interesting touch.

[libdem4life]

5. Head honcho of the Tantrum Caucus in the raucous People's House. Not ready for prime time

any time soon.

[tjwash]

7. The shutdown should have been named "the Cruz to nowhere"

[MindMover]

8. very good .

[Agony]

9. King Cruz

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/10/16/143336/01/Front_Page/Cruz_Father_Suggests_Ted_Cruz_quot_Anointed_quot_to_Bring_The_Spoils_Of_War_To_The_Priests_

"In a sermon last year at an Irving, Texas, megachurch that helped elect Ted Cruz to the United States Senate, Cruz' father Rafael Cruz indicated that his son was among the evangelical Christians who are anointed as "kings" to take control of all sectors of society, an agenda commonly referred to as the "Seven Mountains" mandate, and "bring the spoils of war to the priests", thus helping to bring about a prophesied "great transfer of wealth", from the "wicked" to righteous gentile believers."

Delusional idiots... in a dangerous sort of way.

The depth and breadth of ignorance exhibited by these people is astounding!

[SamYeager]

11. The name is "Mudd"

"You name will be Mudd" goes back to teh aftermath of the Civil War and Doctor Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mudd

[gopiscrap]

13. the name he made for himself is: shit!