Cruz Endorsing Trump Proves He Is Amoral Scum
Remember the old complaints about politicians? That they were empty vacuous amoral scumbags
that would sell their mothers into slavery just to stay in office. Did you ever wonder why that characterization
never went away?
Well, part of the reason is that we, the voting public, are complete and
utter willful idiots who buy into their lies and false promises. But another reason is that they prop
themselves up on platitudes they don’t earn and quickly abandon when the
cameras are off them and their taxpayer-funded pensions are secured for another
term.
The classic con is that of the “principled politician”. The one that sucks up to the bible-thumpers
and holy rollers and tells them that he’s somehow different from the “corrupt
establishment”. He says that he’s really
one of “them”. He’s pious and moral and
has standards that he’s quick to display.
He’s got that perfect family, brought up the “right” way, and wouldn’t
the world just be a better place if everyone had to follow their lead?
Of course the latest wrinkle to that is that they’re also supposedly
“strict supporters and interpreters of the U.S. Constitution”. They like throwing that claim in as if they
could suddenly channel Thomas Jefferson and John Adams from the great
beyond. It gives them that illusion of
legitimacy. Funny how Jefferson and
Adams had no love for organized religion imposing itself in government like
these people want to have happen. I
guess that makes them only partial-mediums, huh? Only the part that benefits them.
Anyway, the key word in “principled politician” is the word
“principle”. As in they have
standards. They have something that goes
beyond the whimsical demands of the “establishment”. And supposedly those standards come before
anything else. The whole world could
demand one thing, but if it is against what the person believes in, that person
would refuse to do it, no matter the consequence.
Bible-thumpers and holy rollers love hearing that kind of thing. Hell, they have a certain book that they love
to tout full of stories with that precise message in them. Stories about how people like them are always
persecuted for what they believe in, but still hold themselves true to those
beliefs and are eventually rewarded for doing so.
That brings us to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the one-time “serious
contender” for the White House.
Cruz was a “serious contender” because he had the support of those
bible-thumpers and holy rollers. His
father played up the evangelical crowd and had them singing his arias like a tabernacle
choir. They thought they have a solid
plan to sneak in, get the support of those “heartland” states, stay pious and
above fray of the other wannabes, and end up with the GOP nomination while the
other wannabees pick themselves apart with petty squabbling.
And Cruz made sure that everyone knew he was a “principled politician”,
that he would put principle above party.
He ran a good old-fashioned filibuster of Congress in his effort to kill
the Affordable Care Act. He wasn’t above
criticizing members of his own party when they behaved like career
politicians. He wanted everyone to know that
he was somehow different from the typical GOP party-player. And for a while, it worked. Of course it also helped that he cheated
a little here and there to get the upper hand in a few of those early
states. That’s why he earned the hashtag
#Cheat2Win. But, hey, that’s what Jesus
would do, right?
Then Senator #Cheat2Win came up against “The Ego”, Donald Trump, otherwise
known as #WhinyLittleBitch.
Trump played the game like a proverbial GOP elephant in a china
shop. Or, in Trump’s case, a drunken and
belligerent GOP elephant. Carrying
around like a schoolyard bully, gloating when he got his way, and crying foul
whenever things weren’t going his way.
And unfortunately for Cruz, Trump outplayed him in the primaries and
caucuses. While Cruz could only pretend
to be an “outsider”, Trump was a real political outsider. Cruz could only pretend to be a political
lone wolf. Trump was the real lone wolf. I say “was”, of course, because Trump is now
the nominee, so he is officially on the inside, and the “lone wolf” just became
the leader of the GOP pack.
So when the 2016 GOP National Convention came around, the world wondered
whether Cruz would follow his earlier campaign promise to support the eventual
winner. This promise was mostly made on
the premise that anyone but Trump would be the nominee. But obviously just the opposite happened, and
now everyone wondered if Cruz would support Trump like he promised to do.
Cruz refused to endorse Trump at the convention. He simply told Americans to “vote your
conscience”. He didn’t condemn Trump,
but he didn’t overwhelmingly support Trump either. Cruz
would later say that he could not in any conscience support a man who
attacked his wife and accused his father of helping to assassinate President
Kennedy. And Trump, in his usual
narcissistic way, said that he wouldn’t accept any kind of endorsement from
Cruz anyway.
So, that’s that, right? Cruz calls
Trump a scumbag, Trump calls Cruz a sore loser, the GOP writes Cruz off, and
Bob’s your uncle.
But then this past week, #Cheat2Win Ted Cruz stepped up and actually
endorsed #WhinyLittleBitch Donald Trump.
Ted Cruz, the supposed man of principle, who called Donald Trump a
“serial philanderer”, a “sniveling coward”, and a “pathological liar”... just
did what he said he would never do.
Oh Ted, poor Ted...
Now I know the script-writers and apologists are busy trying to craft
some story about how Ted “caved to pressure” from the GOP bosses and those
unaccountable power-brokering donors that demanded
party unity at all costs. (He says that didn’t happen.) I’m sure the timing of it was far from
coincidental, given that this happened in the same week that word got out that former
President George H.W. Bush would be voting for Secretary Hillary Clinton. That probably played a role, but I don’t
think it was necessarily the reason why #Cheat2Win Ted would come out for the
#WhinyLittleBitch after all that he previously said about the “sniveling
coward”.
You see, #Cheat2Win Ted could have just joined some of his other failed
wannabes in obscurity and relative silence.
You don’t hear too much from former Governor Jeb “Low Energy” Bush, do
you? Just sit down, shut up, and keep
your focus on your own job and your own constituents. After all, he has two more years before he needs
to worry about re-election and voters are proven idiots with short memories.
But, no, that wouldn’t be Cruz, would it?
Let’s get brutally honest here... what we are seeing here is the real Ted
Cruz. Not a “principled politician”;
just another amoral scumbag trying to stay relevant and hoping for a spot in a
predicted Trump presidency. A man who just
demonstrated that party politics are more important than principles. A weasel-faced self-righteous hypocrite whose
standards are based in sand instead of stone.
You know, I previously had some modicum of respect for the Senator from
Texas for standing up against the GOP and holding true to what he said about
Trump. It was the same modicum of
respect that I initially had for him when he actually staged a physical
filibuster on the floor of the U.S. Senate instead of invoking a phony “proxy
filibuster” that Senators usually wage.
Of course it turned out that his filibuster was pretty much for
show. He waged it for a few hours, got
his media clips for the campaign trail, and then pulled the old Nixon trick of
“declare victory and leave”. He gained
nothing except attention. But now I see
that this is just standard operating procedure for him.
I suppose that we should not be surprised to see a so-called “principled
politician” be exposed as an amoral hypocrite.
The problem with these kinds of pretenders is not that they get caught,
but that the masses do absolutely nothing about it when they are exposed for
who and what they are. Ted Cruz will
back-spin and double-talk his way into justifying both stances, his special
interest sponsors will back him up on it, and his gullible constituents will
vote him back into office so he can keep playing these games. Because, after all, Texas “needs” to have a “principled
man of God” representing them against the “amoral corrupt criminals of the
Washington elite” ...
... even if the man they chose happens to be no different than the rest
of the lot.
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