IS SENATOR TED CRUZ LYING?

This morning on Steve Kornacki’s show on MSNBC, the host and guests speculated about whether or not Ted Cruz is thinking of running for president in 2016. He is an outspoken first term Senator from Texas. Almost everything he says and does indicates he is far, far to the political right; just being Tea Party is not enough for him. He is to the right of that party, which puts him on the fringe of political lunacy. The Democratic operatives are flippantly saying “bring him on” because they know the vast majority of the American people would reject his politics.  Of course, they are correct in their assessment but they should be careful. Ted Cruz is more than likely a cunning operative.

He is carefully laying the groundwork to bring himself to the political front and center. He knows the media will flock to his door when he, as a “red meat” United States Senator, says outlandish things even if the things he says turns off main stream America. He is grabbing headlines for a purpose. The fact that the media is bantering about his name as a candidate for the presidency proves not only his strategy but also his purpose. I would advise that we should wait until he starts to lie about how much of a compassionate conservative he is before we start to worry. When the chameleon changes colors, it indicates that first, he is serious about being a candidate and ready to cash in on his lies about being radical and second, when he switches his positions, it means he is trying to make himself sound electable. It would suggest he thinks he has a chance his party would nominate him. He knows his lies about how his extreme right wing views make him unelectable but he also knows that Republican operatives have long memories but most voters have short memories. I look at a whole series of Republican governors who lied them selves into office then turn on the people of their states: Scott Walker in Wisconsin, McCrory in North Carolina, Kasich in Ohio, Snyder in Michigan. For just two of many examples, they said on the campaign trial they were going to do something to improve education; in their mind defunding public schools and giving taxpayers money to private schools improved education.  They said they were going to balance the budget but didn’t tell the people they were going destroy public service unions and fire teachers and first responders to save money. The importance of the examples is to call the readers attention to their campaign technique—lie to be elected then they did their dirt.

I base much of this speculation concerning Ted Cruz on what Romney did only he did it like an amateur. He switched from “making money at any cost” to being a moderate and compromising Republican to become Gov. of liberal Massachusetts then back to being a radical conservative in the Republican  primaries to get the presidential nomination, and then back to being moderate to be electable. He changed positions so often that he was like a kaleidoscopic chameleon. His lying was so often and poorly timed; therefore, blatantly obvious. Cruz is not that dumb.

Ted Cruz as president would be a disaster for America. I believe he is truly a radical right wing Republican.  I know Reagan and Bush were able to lie themselves into the White house. Like the governors, they lied to make themselves electable. The American people suffered because of these two guys and all those governors. We ended up with trickle down economic, a shrinking middle class, the equivalent of a plutocracy, and an economic disaster. Are we as a people dumb enough to do it again, only this time with a readical Irish-English-Cuban Canadian Texan named Ted Cruz?

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