One of the best things in American politics today is Sarah Palin’s love affair with Ted Cruz. She wrapped up the CPAC conference with another one of her idiotic stem-winders, and what she said could easily give Senator John McCain an aneurysm. Watch:
Palin heaped praise on tea party hero Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), who has in recent months clashed repeatedly with Republican leadership on Capitol Hill and forced several establishment Republicans who are considered vulnerable in this year’s midterm elections to join with Democrats to get the annual lifting of the nation’s borrowing limit passed.
“Thank you, Texas!” Palin declared. “‘Cause liberty needs a Congress on Cruz-control.”
Senator Cruz, of course, had made an appearance before the CPAC loons on Thursday in which he mocked McCain, as well as Mitt Romney and Bob Dole. McCain was particularly incensed that Cruz would attack Bob Dole, who is in frail health.
“I spoke to Ted Cruz. He and I have a cordial relationship about this,” McCain said on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on Friday. “He can say what he wants to about me, and he can say anything he wants to, I think, about Mitt [Romney], Mitt’s capable of taking it. But when he throws Bob Dole in there, I wonder if he thinks that Bob Dole stood for principle on that hilltop in Italy when he was so gravely wounded and left part of his body there fighting for our country?”
There is nothing “cordial” about McCain’s relationship with Ted Cruz, or pretty much anybody else who doesn’t wield a microphone or a camera. There’s a reason that Chris Cillizza’s article on this incident is headlined: John McCain vs. Ted Cruz, Round 203. They’ve been fighting over everything since McCain termed Cruz a “wacko bird” early last year. But Sarah Palin loves Cruz and thinks the Senate should be on “Cruz-control.”
With our politics so broken, we really need to stop and cherish the few precious good moments. Like this:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) struck back at former Vice President Dick Cheney for calling his choice of 2008 running mate Sarah Palin a “mistake,” and brought up their famous disagreement over torture during the Bush administration.
“I’m always glad to get comments four years later. Look, I respect the vice president,” McCain said on “Fox & Friends” Monday. “He and I had strong disagreements as to whether we should torture people or not. I don’t think we should have.”
How would that exchange stack up in a game of Who’s the Asshole?
McCain has been squirming to defend his choice of Palin since at least the Death Panel fiasco back in 2009. But he knows he screwed up. Sarah Palin won’t let him forget.
