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Ted Cruz just makes my skin crawl (Original Post) edhopper Dec 2015 OP
more like a bowel movement madokie Dec 2015 #1
Cruz has always struck me as the ultimate ass-kissing suck-up. bullwinkle428 Dec 2015 #2
I think the whole lot of them KT2000 Dec 2015 #3
He never fails to remind me madamesilverspurs Dec 2015 #4
He's a lizard not a human being al bupp Dec 2015 #5
Wow! You see it, too! I have seen him from the first as appearing to have cold, clammy skin, Judi Lynn Dec 2015 #11
Reminds me of.. BlueJazz Dec 2015 #6
Am I missing something... RichGirl Dec 2015 #7
After all the noise they have made, and continue to make about Obama's citizenship. Damn! n/t Judi Lynn Dec 2015 #12
Fabulous GOP hypocrisy is why. One parent is US citizen by birth (his mother). And, he's white. Hekate Dec 2015 #16
He is a Dominionist. Blus4u Dec 2015 #8
Yes but... RichGirl Dec 2015 #10
TY for bringing this up for those who do not know about Dominionism Hekate Dec 2015 #17
he certainly isn't normal, by any standards we understand. human?? highly debatable. niyad Dec 2015 #9
He is greasy reptilian. Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #13
You're not alone. Blue_In_AK Dec 2015 #14
I have the same reaction. Imo slime don't lie. nolabear Dec 2015 #15
Same here. MuseRider Dec 2015 #18
I think he is really mean. oldandhappy Dec 2015 #19
He makes my kin scrawl. Kablooie Dec 2015 #20
1:02 Hal Bent Dec 2015 #21

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
2. Cruz has always struck me as the ultimate ass-kissing suck-up.
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 10:36 PM
Dec 2015

I've known a few of those over the course of all my years in the corporate world, and I think that these types are some of the lowest form of sub-human scum inhabiting the planet.

KT2000

(20,583 posts)
3. I think the whole lot of them
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 10:40 PM
Dec 2015

should undergo psychiatric evaluation. Who are these people? There is something not right about their whole agenda.

madamesilverspurs

(15,805 posts)
4. He never fails to remind me
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 10:48 PM
Dec 2015

of a former employer who, having dined in restaurants, deemed himself suited to own one. He had never held a job in food service, yet never withheld loud criticism of employees who were actually doing their jobs correctly. He was known for public tantrums in which he would berate his workers, followed by bellowed insinuations about them as they walked out the door. He loved to whine about how his "over-paid" minimum wage employees were unappreciative of his largesse, then he'd change the pay schedule so they wouldn't get their December checks until after Christmas. He really enjoyed telling people that he was "a self-made man", even though it was common knowledge that he had nothing until he married. On his best day he was a slimy template for insincerity in all things.

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
11. Wow! You see it, too! I have seen him from the first as appearing to have cold, clammy skin,
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 11:16 PM
Dec 2015

and maybe a very strange odor.

Yahoo! So glad to see someone sees him as being literally as repulsive as I do.

Thanks for mentioning it.

RichGirl

(4,119 posts)
7. Am I missing something...
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 11:03 PM
Dec 2015

....how is it that he can run for president if he was born in Canada?

I find him so repellent that I never listen to anything about him....so what's the deal???

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
16. Fabulous GOP hypocrisy is why. One parent is US citizen by birth (his mother). And, he's white.
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 11:37 PM
Dec 2015

The fact that Barack Obama's mother is a US citizen by birth is actually irrelevant to the legality of his presidency, because President Obama was himself born in the USA and not in another country. He's black, but that can't possibly have anything to do with GOP attitudes toward him.

But did I mention Cruz is white? So white he practically glows like something bred in a cave? So being born in another country is entirely irrelevant to the GOP -- just like John McCain being born in Panama.

Blus4u

(608 posts)
8. He is a Dominionist.
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 11:09 PM
Dec 2015

These people are really scary.

If you have not researched Dominionism, I would encourage you to.
These people are gaining way too much power in this country.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/30/left-accept-ted-cruz-dominionist-messiah.html

Peace

RichGirl

(4,119 posts)
10. Yes but...
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 11:15 PM
Dec 2015

Liberals never thought Obama was the Messiah! We aren't insane that way! We saw a highly intelligent person qualified to be president.

I swear there is rampant mental illness among the right wing. In fact they make those who have been diagnosed as mentally ill seem normal.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
17. TY for bringing this up for those who do not know about Dominionism
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 11:43 PM
Dec 2015

It's extremely important for understanding a powerful segment of the GOP base, including the home-school movement, the religious colleges their kids go to, and how the graduates of those colleges are funneled into staffer positions in the US Congress, where they learn the ropes...

See Right Wing Watch for more
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/dominionism

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
18. Same here.
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 12:25 AM
Dec 2015

I can't look at him. Something inside me wraps up and coils in revulsion. It is a total gut reaction with a shiver or two thrown in. That is all without knowing what he stands for. Knowing what he stands for....my governor is a dominionist, I know what that means to me. He is so far from anyone capable of being a leader that I just can't even imagine.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
20. He makes my kin scrawl.
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 04:37 AM
Dec 2015

My brother is writing a book about him.


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