Pic Of The Moment: Ted Cruz "Honored" To Have Real Life Exorcist On His Colorado Leadership Team

[EarlG]

Ted Cruz Is 'Honored' To Have The Support Of Colorado's Demon-Hunting, Anti-Gay Exorcist State Legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt

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[Martin Eden]

1. Cruz is more dangerous than Trump

Trump believes only in himself, and money. Ted Cruz is a far right ideologue and a Dominionist who wants an America ruled by theocratic elites.

Also, Trump is more beatable in the general election. He's managed to make Cruz look like a sane alternative.

[Saviolo]

9. Maybe

Trump negotiated an amazing deal with Cruz to make him look like the saner alternative so if Cruz gets the nomination, Trump gets something big. Cushy trade deal, or preferred trading status.

Just kidding, really. It might looks more likely if Cruz were leading, unless this "implosion" of the Trump campaign is him being finally too extreme to be electable next to "respectable" (hurk) Cruz.

Ugh. There just aren't any good choices on the GOP side.

[bjobotts]

22. This is a seriously deluded snake who belongs in an asyklum

[elljay]

37. I agree

Trump is, well, Trump but he is not remotely an ideologue. I trhink Trump would have gladly run as a progressive Dem if he thought he would get better results. We would stand a chance of Trump doing a few good things if there were enough public pressure. Cruz, on the other hand, is a religious fanatic on a mission from God. A Cruz presidency would make us long for the good ol' Bush years.

[Hortensis]

43. Agree. I loved reading this, tho.

Cruz may be brilliant, but actions like this should make him extremely beatable even though I hate having him this close to the presidency.

But how about Paul Ryan? Extremely extreme, and charming, and he'd also make us long for the good ol' Bush years.

[elljay]

44. It is like playing Russian Roulette

with all the chambers loaded! Each of the Republican putative candidates is horrible. Ryan is owned by the Koch brothers, so would be an extreme libertarian with religious overtones, though maybe not as religiously motivated as Cruz. Ryan is an intellectual lightweight, but Bush got elected so.... Kasich is scary because he would beat Hillary if she were the candidate. He presents as a reasonable person despite being an extremist and will not have anywhere near the negatives of the other candidates. The Democratic Party is making a big mistake by focusing on Trump and Cruz; I'm not sure they're ready for the other possibilities.

[Hortensis]

45. Kasich has extremist and corruption baggage too.

In spite of his pretences to moderation, it'd get hauled out. Along with the Kochs, Kasich has been with ALEC since its formation. He was right up over his hairline in the Lehman Bros corruption and collapse.

He also has a way of letting..."old fashioned" attitudes slip in public that would be setting off minority alarms big time, including a new, good one just recently

I will tell you this. The issue of infant mortality is a tough one. We've taken that on, and one of the toughest areas to take on is in the minority community. And the community itself is going to have to have a better partnership with all of us to begin to solve that problem of infant mortality in the minority community, because we're making gains in the majority community.

None of the black people I've ever known needed white people to help stop them killing their babies, and Kasich isn't talking about the effects of poverty here. He's talking black and white. And there are actions while governor, such as a discriminatory "partial" food stamp waiver for instance (partial as in no food stamps for counties with black populations). Minorities would shun him, of course, but this'd cost him with moderate white conservatives and independents too.

I could spend a lot of time on this and need to stop. The more you look into Kasich's background, the more dirt there is. Election tampering/voter suppression. Shift yet more of the tax burden onto working classes.

He's been cagey, separated himself from the Kochs, postured moderate, accepted the Medicaid extension, but if he isn't not-so-secretly with that extremist right-wing crowd that is scheming to make most federal government actions and programs declared unconstitutional, I'll eat my ballot.

[elljay]

46. And I wasn't going to get drunk tonight

but when you put it that way, AAaaaargh!! They're all HORRIBLE!

[Hortensis]

47. 3:14 in the morning, too late if

tomorrow's to count for anything, but I'm so with you.

[MynameisBlarney]

49. I think one is just as dangerous as the other.

They're just different flavors of evil.

[Martin Eden]

51. Trump might be more tempted to push the nuclear button

The question is whether he will be restrained by the establishment. I heard there's already been some talk by military leaders that they wouldn't follow crazy/illegal orders.

But Donald Trump will never be president, which is a big reason why I think he's less dangerous. I'm pulling for him to beat Cruz for the nomination, or failing that, running as an independent would pretty much guarantee a Dem victory.

[MynameisBlarney]

52. I think we're gonna have a Dem victory

anyway.
No matter who is nominated on either side, I'm confident the WH will stay Blue.

Cruz has the charisma of a turd in a punch bowl. And trump has no fucking clue how anything works in the real world.
He's used to people telling him yes all the time.

[2naSalit]

2. What does thta tell us

when all of the repug candidates are actually extremely dangerous and they are actual candidates for president?


Glad me passport is still valid for a few more years.

[yurbud]

29. they ate too many lead paint chips as kids

[2naSalit]

30. Good one!

I wonder about that sometimes but most are privileged brats who never had chipping paint in their presence. Could it be genetics..?

[yurbud]

38. leaded crystal, as someone said in another thread.

[2naSalit]

40. Oh now there's a valid option.

Yikes.

[yurbud]

54. I've heard from several people they change out nannies or governesses frequently to keep kids from

getting too attached, and of course they don't see their parents much, so that's a recipe for creating a sociopath.

[MynameisBlarney]

50. Heh...

Or not enough.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Maybe Rep. Klingstoshit can do some work on Turd Cruz.

Seems like a good fit, those two.

[rurallib]

4. Cruz must see a lot of his dad in this guy

[Botany]

6. I wonder if he really believes that shit or is it just an act

The world might be better off if we had less religion.

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

[Botany]

12. Give me that old time religion

Now give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
And it's good enough for me

[3catwoman3]

27. Bad enough if he believes it.

Thoroughly despicable if he is just playing to the crowd.

[OldRedneck]

7. If Klingenschmitt is a REAL exorcist . . .

If Klingenschmitt is a REAL exorcist, he needs to get busy cleansing the GOP of its many demons -- starting with Ted Cruz.

[Initech]

8. Klingenschmitt looks like he could easily be the Doomsday Killer from Dexter.

After all they both had that creepy religious vibe to them...

[backscatter712]

41. The Zodiac Killer meets the Doomsday Killer! n/t

[LongTomH]

11. He's got to be kidding..........

Oh shit.....he isn't!!!!!

[louis-t]

13. These are very sick people.

Is there a prayer that asks God to "make them grow a brain"?

[Else You Are Mad]

14. Cruz is frightening.

Trump is an asshole, but Cruz is downright frightening. Cruz wants to start the end of the world so Jesus will return. Most of the 'religious right politicians' are religious just for show, this man really means it.

[DhhD]

26. Actually Cruz/Dominionist want to run the world until Jesus comes back. It is a time when

the poor and unbelievers will be made to bring their money to the Merchant Church at the top of the Seven Mountains. Cruz has said numerous times that he will shut down the IRS as well as other government offices. He did shut the government down for several days a couple of years ago.

[appalachiablue]

15. Oh no...what a scary, repulsive man Cruz is, and his father. Where's Cruz' Mother BTW?

[Fritz Walter]

16. I want to call him Ayatollah Klingenschmitt

But that's really unfair to real mullahs.

[Quasimodem]

33. I understand that Klingenschmitt's ...

... can be avoided by regular bathing.

[es35]

17. Let's all start using the phrase "God-myth" instead of the word "God" from now on

If all atheists started saying "God-myth" instead of "God" we might be able to finally change the obsession of our country with religion. This would force believers to have to prove what they are referring to day in and day out. They would have to present objective evidence for their god and for their claim that he gave them the right to rule over society or else continue to hear us say "God-myth" each and every time.

Let's see "One Nation Under God-Myth"
yeah, that sounds about right!!

[tom_kelly]

18. This guy looks and acts like he's in the closet himself

Why do people fall for this crappola?

[Thor_MN]

31. Ol' Gordo probably has some feelings "down there" that don't agree with his buybull

so he has to work especially hard to rid the world of those feelings..,

[KamaAina]

19. Why couldn't he snag Booby Jindal?

He is, after all, tanned, rested and ready, even if his official portrait left out the tanned part.

[radhika]

20. Poof! Cruz banished on live TV, by his team exorcist!

Let us pray.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

21. This guy looks to find and get rid of demons

I guess he hasn't looked at himself in the mirror recently, either that or he has no reflection.

[Bad Dog]

23. Why would he appoint this guy.

Who does he appeal to other than the completely whacked out? Where's the middle ground in all of this? I just don't get it.

[Chiyo-chichi]

24. Jessica Williams owned this clown on The Daily Show last week.

[world wide wally]

25. I guess the altitude just has a strange effect on the weak minded

[redruddyred]

28. according to nat'l enquirer, ted has turned at least five women lesbian

no wonder he needs a gay exorcist

[47of74]

32. Or as I call him, Gordon Klingonshit

He really is a vile piece of work that dishonored his uniform and all honorable chaplains past, present, and future.

[backscatter712]

42. I call him Flingenschitt...

That's pretty much what he does on his show.

[tclambert]

34. Maybe one day he'll pray hard enough that ALL the evil spirits leave America

and the Republicans will vanish.

[Drahthaardogs]

35. He is no exorcist sanctioned from Rome.

Just RW bullshit. Even his exorcist is a fraud.

[Still In Wisconsin]

36. Maybe the exorcist can help Ted finally find a BOGLE for the GLOTCH. n/t

[Blue Owl]

39. Voodoo Cruz

n/t

[marble falls]

48. If that exorcist was any good, why is Cruz still haunting us?????

[barbtries]

53. please don't let him be president.

i honestly believe he would be worse than trump