Calgarian? Calgorian? Calgon? Calgareseian? Kergalshian?
Or, what he’d prefer…The Calgarene?
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I like Calgon.
To me, the essence of Ted Cruz is manly patriarchalism. This suggests the absence of salts (tears:Boehner) and reduction of cations (positive charged ions:!Jeb!) that are SO important in todays hard water world (hard water:The Navy is so pussified).
very nice, DerFarm, profound.
How about “illegal” since he’s so fond of that word for those from east, west, and south of the border.
Ah Ted Cruz I would call him the great separator.Ted has the uncanny ability to separate himself from others ALL other that is. The only man to accomplish being despised and hating by not only those outside of his professed party, but his party members as well.
Clingon. He’s a Clingon, not to be confused with Klingon.
By Cruz’s own immigration rule for Barack Obama, Cruz is Cuban and a proselytizing Bible-spouting born-on-second-base sharp-talking racist just like dad, the oily business owner.
The movements of the family seem strangely calculated as pursuit of US citizenship in spite of US and Canadian laws putting obstacles in the way of Cuban immigration for those trapped in special-purpose visas.
Seems like a guy who greatly benefited from the US propensity to amnesty in immigration actions and now that he’s in, he wants to slam the door and be President at the same time.
Likely he can’t decide whether he’s a Flame, a Stampeder, or a Roughneck. Clearly he’s one of the Hitmen.
Wow, does that apply the schadenfreude cure! And I was trying to be restrained in my retributive birtherism.
He sure doesn’t seem to be acting like a guy that has nothing to hide. As the pampered only son of his parents (their daughters were left behind), he had his head stuffed with his “specialness” and has behaved accordingly. Although others raised this issue a couple of years ago, he successfully deflected those questions — as if when the weight of public opinion on the illegitimate questions about Obama shifted in Obama’s favor inoculated Cruz on legitimate questions about his claim to be a “natural born Citizen.” It seems as Trump is the only one that has been able to land a punch on the Cruz citizenship questions. That adds to Trump’s reputation for being tough.
And a good chunk of Democrats are acting like, well, Democrats in dismissing any legitimacy to the questions and Cruz’s citizenship and declaring that he is a “natural born Citizen” and no more stinking information is necessary. They seem to be better trained to reflect the reputation of Democrats as wimps than Republicans are at following their “daddy’s lead.”
Well, it’s not like Cruz is ever going to be president anyway. There’s no need to disqualify him based on some technicality when he’s already disqualified himself by being such a colossal dickhead.
So he was born in Canada to a Cuban father and an American mother who may or may not have become a Canadian citizen at some point. If this was someone I actually wanted to see in the White House, would I want them to be disqualified for that? No I would not.
It appears to me that it will remain hard to persuade Democrats of your views when you express such consistent disrespect for Democrats. Your deep disrespect appears pretty evenly distributed between Party leadership and those who vote for Party candidates. I respect a lot of your views; restating them in ways which are less alienating may be more effective. You’re not happy with the status quo in the Party; it may be worth taking another tack.
Re. filing a suit or rhetorically attacking Cruz’s legal legitimacy as a POTUS candidate, Ted is about as unelectable in the general as Trump, so why bother? Let’s face off with the jerk and the movement which spawned him and crush them at the ballot box.
Recall that Romney led President Obama in many polls throughout 2012. Even Santorum beat Obama in a poll as late as March. Campaigns matter. Do you believe the GOP candidates are establishing records which make it possible for them to run effective general election campaigns in 2016?
Ted CRUZ Is Nothing Less Than A Charlatan/Opportunist Riding Into The USA — (Under Intriguing Favorable Circumstances) – With A Strictly One-Dimensional Agenda That Is Bereft Of Any Real Connection To Our Nation’Rich Tapestry Of Human/Immigrant Experience. In Short, He Glosses 90% Of The “Human Drama” That Has Actually Taken Plaace In This Nation THat Has Made.I it What It Is Today. Our Nation’s History Is An Epic Struggle For “Inclusion” — Senor CRUZ — Instead — Stands For Nothing More Than EXCLUSION & PRECLUSION. He, Like Donald Trump, Are Self-Absorbed, Self CEntered, Faux-Religiously Infused-Narcissistic Sociopaths Working Out Their Own Demons In The Public Town Square. Now That Ted CRUZ Has “Escaped” From The Cane Fields To The “Boss-Man’s House (Plantation Owner) He Neatly Pivots To Being The Plantation House ;Boy”. CRUZ Never Immersed In “America”, But Only Its Guilded Trappings —- Vestiges Of INORDINATE & ONEROUS WEALTH!
wootman, tell us what you REALLY feel. Holding it in does you no good.
Calgaroon (or Calgarón with the requisite Cuban accent).
“Calgarian” is actually correct.
So is “asshole.”
Howie Klein is convinced Paul Ryan is now running. It seems to me there really is something similar in the way Ryan isn’t running to the way he wasn’t running for Speaker a little while back. Of course I guess at this point the Krazy KauKus has him down as just another RINO by whom they won’t get fooled again, so perhaps he has no more chance than Rubio or Christie, but still.
What juice would Ryan have if he’s thrown into the ring at this point? (Thrown because nobody will buy that he woke up one morning and suddenly realized that he should and wanted be a 2016 Presidential candidate.) The VP nominee on a losing Presidential ticket don’t set the world on fire; those that manage to get the nomination (unlike Muskie, Quayle, Lieberman, and Edwards) haven’t even been competitive in the general election since 1932 (and it wasn’t too soon or too late in FDR’s case unlike Mondale’s and Dole’s).
This sort of speculation is reminiscent of the GOP in 1968. Nixon made some nervous, so a parading cast of new candidates were throw in as the last one failed.
No juice in the sense of attracting those voters, surely. But lots with the country-club conservative donors, who don’t really like anybody, and their pet intellectuals. So more entertainment.
I hope so. I SINCERELY hope so.
Anything that gets in the way of his Senate campaign in Kentucky is something I’m all in favor of.
are you thinking of the other aynrandian?
The candidate you’re thinking of and the one I was thinking of are Pauls apart. 😉
very nice
I skimmed Howie’s article, but I didn’t see how it would actually work.
AFAIK, many deadlines for getting on the various primary ballots have passed. Is he thinking that Ryan will win by acclimation at a divided convention or something?
I dunno.
Predictions are hard, especially about the future. We may not know until mid-March how it’ll shake out. I strongly doubt, though that the candidates running would just roll over and let Ryan swoop in.
Cheers,
Scott.
Given that all the GOP POTUS candidates are running in hard opposition to the budget deal Speaker Ryan just supported, they will have an additional reason to block his brokered path to the nomination.