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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 11:55 AM Jan 2016

I am proud to stand with Duck Dynasties endorcement of Ted Cruz

They deserve each other............LOL

Ted Cruz Lands Coveted Duck Dynasty Endorsement

Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson is a racist homophobe who has advocated marrying 15-year-old girls. He is also, per the title of the YouTube embedded above, a “Cruz Commander,” which means that Robertson has officially endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz for President.

For a brief period, Robertson was the national face of self-righteous hatred (now often referred to as “religious freedom”). In 2013, after his comments to Drew Magary in GQ about the deviance of gays and their anus-loving ways scandalized liberals, A&E suspended Robertson from Duck Dynasty, only to reinstate him nine days later. By then, bigots like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee had decried A&E’s decision to turn its back on someone who was merely, to hear them spin it, exercising his freedom of speech. Thus Duck Dynasty became the new Chick-Fil-A.

nd now, Phil Robertson is to Ted Cruz as Lena Dunham is to Hillary Clinton. In the last two years, Duck Dynasty’s ratings have plummeted, which makes Robertson’s endorsement especially pathetic, but on the plus side, his endorsement video gifted us with the iconic image of Cruz atop this post.

http://gawker.com/ted-cruz-lands-coveted-duck-dynasty-endorsement-1752803293

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I am proud to stand with Duck Dynasties endorcement of Ted Cruz (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jan 2016 OP
I love this yeoman6987 Jan 2016 #1
Hey we know how badly Ted wants the Jesus vote! Initech Jan 2016 #2
Jesus, like Ted SwankyXomb Jan 2016 #8
I always knew Phil was more of a Canadian Geese fan Johonny Jan 2016 #3
Well, he just cooked someone's goose pinboy3niner Jan 2016 #6
Duck paint? world wide wally Jan 2016 #7
Sadly but to Cruz aka GOP voters Robertson's blather sounds good Botany Jan 2016 #4
Read the replies at the link Ichingcarpenter Jan 2016 #5
LOL, somewhere Bobby Jindal is sobbing... FSogol Jan 2016 #9
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. I love this
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 12:13 PM
Jan 2016

The reason is that duck dynasty endorsements have not resulted in a win for the candidate at all....ever!

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
6. Well, he just cooked someone's goose
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 12:32 PM
Jan 2016

I think we'll be seeing a lot of images of Cruz in his duck paint.

Botany

(70,422 posts)
4. Sadly but to Cruz aka GOP voters Robertson's blather sounds good
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 12:30 PM
Jan 2016

Them Darkies were happy before civil rights laws.

“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person," Robertson is quoted in GQ. "Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field.... They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”

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