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AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts) Mon Mar 25, 2013, 08:56 PM Mar 2013

Ted Cruz: Joe McCarthy comparisons mean ‘we’re doing something right’

By: David Edwards (RAW STORY)

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says that he must be “doing something right” when critics compare him to Sen. Joe McCarthy, a Republican politician who was officially censured in the 1950s for using false accusations of communism to smear opponents.

In a February report, The New York Times noted that Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) had compared Cruz’ tactics to McCarthyism after he made the baseless suggestion that then-Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel was being paid by North Korea.

“It was really reminiscent of a different time and place, when you said, ‘I have here in my pocket a speech you made on such and such a date,’ and, of course, nothing was in the pocket,” Boxer said. “It was reminiscent of some bad times.”

But in an interview published on Sunday, Cruz told The Dallas Morning News that he took the comparison to McCarthy as a badge of honor.

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Stupid on steroids.

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Ted Cruz: Joe McCarthy comparisons mean ‘we’re doing something right’ (Original Post) AgingAmerican Mar 2013 OP

I'm speechless northoftheborder Mar 2013 #1

talk about trying to re-brand McCarthyism and/or stupidity nt steve2470 Mar 2013 #2

Oh, Teddy the Terrible, I am embarrased for you, if you think lying is doing something right then Thinkingabout Mar 2013 #3

Dumbass. Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2013 #4

Nazis would love Teddy. moondust Mar 2013 #5

It's the ideology AgingAmerican Mar 2013 #8

he's not stupid. .... harvard law school. he's a cunning frightening opportunist. spanone Mar 2013 #6

Openly lies and deceives. Reminds me of the Serpent; the Serpent who lied to Eve about what DhhD Mar 2013 #7

no surprise, GOP right wing scumbags always have a thing for McCarthy quinnox Mar 2013 #9

northoftheborder

(7,572 posts)

1. I'm speechless

Reply to AgingAmerican (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 08:58 PM

Mar 2013

steve2470

(37,457 posts)

2. talk about trying to re-brand McCarthyism and/or stupidity nt

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Mon Mar 25, 2013, 09:00 PM

Mar 2013

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

3. Oh, Teddy the Terrible, I am embarrased for you, if you think lying is doing something right then

Reply to AgingAmerican (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 09:06 PM

Mar 2013

You are dumber than I thought. We know you will never be president but perhaps the good people of Texas will make you a one term Senator. You are an embarrassment to the great state of Texas. For all others there are good smart people in Texas, don't judge by the last few turning up on the national scene. Maybe if the Senate starts censor in short time he just may get it.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,835 posts)

4. Dumbass.

Reply to AgingAmerican (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 09:08 PM

Mar 2013

moondust

(19,981 posts)

5. Nazis would love Teddy.

Reply to AgingAmerican (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 09:14 PM

Mar 2013

They, too, were big on smearing people they didn't like and wanted to denigrate.

I can't believe this Cruz guy ever finished college, much less Harvard.

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)

8. It's the ideology

Reply to moondust (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 10:56 PM

Mar 2013

It makes them stupid. Seriously. They graduate college then spend the next 20 years living in the right wing information bubble, which makes them idiots. Look at Scalia, he has been in the tea party information bubble for four or so years and he has gone full stupid too.

Ideology = information bubble = stupid