Ted Cruz is a real comedian.
“If you sit back and you list who are the brightest stars in the Republican Party, who are the most effective advocates for free-market principles, you come up with names like Marco Rubio, like Mike Lee, like Rand Paul, like Pat Toomey, like Scott Walker,” Cruz said as a man in the audience at the New York State Republican Party dinner yelled his name.
“You have to go back to World War II to see such a transformation of the people leading the fight, leading the argument for conservative principles, being an entirely new generation of leaders stepping forward.” Cruz continued, describing the men who grew up while Reagan served in office. “In this new generation of leaders, you see the echoes of that same communication, that same love story of freedom, echoing we are right and all of us together are working to communicate that message.”
The idea that these clowns are “bright stars” is laughable. They’re wacko birds. Pretty much everything that they think they know about Ronald Reagan is false. About the only thing they should be giving Reagan credit for is starting the process of the conservative takeover of the Republican Party. Reagan made Ted Cruz possible, but he had very little in common with him.
For starters, Reagan had a personaility. When he stole little kids’ lunch money, he had a smile on his face. He wasn’t rude about it.
Mike Lee and Rand Paul are just aggressively stupid, and Ted Cruz specializes in weaponizing other people’s stupid. The future of the GOP isn’t bright; it’s dismal. It’s dismal because the party has been Palinized. And Cruz’s “bright stars” are the proof of that.