Ted Cruz Chastises Beto O’Rourke For F-Bombs, But Only Makes Him Seem Cooler

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Starbuck1975

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Guess people should vote for Cruz then:
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The voters of TX get to choose between a sniveling lying cowardly hypocrite and and a guy who tried to flee the scene of a DUI, got reprimanded for insider trading, whose father instructed his cop buddy to destroy incriminating evidence against him and has a family business accused of IRS fraud.

The best people
 

VRAMdemon

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I guess ol Ted is feeling the heat that he's just not "cool" enough. The Cruz campaign released a poster of a smoking, heavily tatted and roided up Ted. Lol..When did Ted Cruz join MS13.

https://wokesloth.com/ted-cruz-tattoos-poster/jessi/

Ted Cruz came from Laredo T E X
Hitchhiked his way across the U S AX
Plucked his eyebrows along the way
Shaved his legs and then he was a she

She said Hey, Babe
Take a walk on the wild side
Hey, Babe
Take a walk on the wild side
 
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Zorba

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My best friend lost his father to a DUI driver, so I am not so forgiving. Glad he “owned it”.

Seems like he has a fair amount to own, as does his family. He sounds like the lost Kennedy.
He had a DUI, so let's re-elected they guy that wants to take healthcare, including addiction coverage, away from millions of people. Let's re-elected the guy that would pull Medicad and food stamps from the poor and SS and Medicare from the old.

I don't even drink and I think the punishment for DUI is far too lax, but let's keep this in prospective, Ted Cruz wants to fuck over tens of millions of people in ways that would significantly increase early death including through DUI.
 

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I would vote for Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren or Seth Moulton or Robert Mueller or the late John McCain.

I am not going to vote for the son of a corrupt county judge whose privilege allowed him to escape accountability for a DUI among other things.

The only reason this guy is in the spotlight is because people are comparing him to Robert Kennedy and because he is a viable threat to Ted Cruz.

Seems like Democrat voters are willing to overlook their principles just to win an election. Where have we seen this before? Hmmmmm

Don't worry, I am sure that when any of those top individuals that you selected actually do run for POTUS or some office that you are eligible to vote for, you will find any number of convenient excuses to explain away how they are just as bad as their objectively awful opponents.

Did the guy kill anyone when driving drunk? No? So who was hurt in that awful mistake he made at a younger age? Has he grown from it?
 
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He needs to do this again to be cool, reminds me of Dukakis in the tank


We all know Ted did not buy that bacon
He looks stupid in the completely buttoned shirt at the gun range
The pained look he has eating that tiny bit of bacon from the gun
Can we make fun of him for calling the gun a machine gun? We usually make fun of reporters for doing that.
 
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Did the guy kill anyone when driving drunk? No? So who was hurt in that awful mistake he made at a younger age? Has he grown from it?

I was going to say something similar. I’m not from TX so I traditionally don’t like to comment but since the Pochahauntis stuff became the norm, I figured it was okay for me to comment.
I know nothing of the opponent other than he’s not Ted. Did the DUI stuff end in an accident? Was anyone hurt? Has he sincerely apologized? Has he changed his behavior?
 

Starbuck1975

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He had a DUI, so let's re-elected they guy that wants to take healthcare, including addiction coverage, away from millions of people. Let's re-elected the guy that would pull Medicad and food stamps from the poor and SS and Medicare from the old.

I don't even drink and I think the punishment for DUI is far too lax, but let's keep this in prospective, Ted Cruz wants to fuck over tens of millions of people in ways that would significantly increase early death including through DUI.
The perspective I see is rationalizing someone with behavioral patterns that some of you would be condemning if he had an R next to his name.
 

Bitek

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The voters of TX get to choose between a sniveling lying cowardly hypocrite and and a guy who tried to flee the scene of a DUI, got reprimanded for insider trading, whose father instructed his cop buddy to destroy incriminating evidence against him and has a family business accused of IRS fraud.

The best people

Has he cheated on his wife with a porn star, cheated business partners, dodged the draft and colluded with a hostile foreign power to commit treason?

Otherwise your summary reads like W's qualification to be Texas Gov and POTUS, but W also dodged the draft.

In the end, it a binary choice between Slitherin Cruz and Beto, and only one will be a vote in the Senate against Trump.
 

Starbuck1975

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Don't worry, I am sure that when any of those top individuals that you selected actually do run for POTUS or some office that you are eligible to vote for, you will find any number of convenient excuses to explain away how they are just as bad as their objectively awful opponents.

Did the guy kill anyone when driving drunk? No? So who was hurt in that awful mistake he made at a younger age? Has he grown from it?
I tried voting for one of those top individuals but it wasn’t his turn.

Doesn’t matter that he didn’t kill someone. This guy is “W” Bush and Ted Kennedy level, but I guess that counts as qualified in the age of Trump.
 

Starbuck1975

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Has he cheated on his wife with a porn star, cheated business partners, dodged the draft and colluded with a hostile foreign power to commit treason?
But Trump

Otherwise your summary reads like W's qualification to be Texas Gov and POTUS, but W also dodged the draft.
Beto seems to be on the “W” Bush/Ted Kennedy end of the spectrum in terms of privilege and politically connected “get out of jail free” cards.

In the end, it a binary choice between Slitherin Cruz and Beto, and only one will be a vote in the Senate against Trump.
So the ends justify the means? I believe that’s how we ended up with Trump in the first place.
 
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The perspective I see is rationalizing someone with behavioral patterns that some of you would be condemning if he had an R next to his name.

Maybe but maybe not. Ted Kennedy was a man with problems. He definitely had remorse, he definitely changed as he aged and became a different person. Redemption is possible especially if you support the less fortunate. The last part is where many Republicans fail, yes they had problems, yes the are believably truely sorry but it falls apart at the support for the less fortunate portion.
 

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Zorba

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The perspective I see is rationalizing someone with behavioral patterns that some of you would be condemning if he had an R next to his name.
I vote based on policy. Cruz policies would lead to the early deaths of millions. To me that is far worse morally than someone that had a DUI decades ago.

I think it is funny how many you "Bernie" fans only apply morality standards to Democrats. The options are Cruz and Beto. Beto made some bad choices and probably pulled some strings decades ago. Cruz wants to actively make life WORSE for tens of millions of people, leading to more early deaths and more DUIs and more ODs.

The moral choice is obvious, even if neither are Christ himself. There is no third choice.
 

Starbuck1975

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Maybe but maybe not. Ted Kennedy was a man with problems. He definitely had remorse, he definitely changed as he aged and became a different person. Redemption is possible especially if you support the less fortunate. The last part is where many Republicans fail, yes they had problems, yes the are believably truely sorry but it falls apart at the support for the less fortunate portion.
Not sure I agree with regards to Kennedy. Forgiveness is easy to attain when privilege alleviates you from the burden of accountability and remorse seems to be a function of political necessity. Trump is what remains when you remove the facade.
 

Starbuck1975

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I vote based on policy. Cruz policies would lead to the early deaths of millions. To me that is far worse morally than someone that had a DUI decades ago.
Seems like an apples to oranges comparison

I think it is funny how many you "Bernie" fans only apply morality standards to Democrats.
Because most “Bernie” fans have rejected the GOP so we are left to evaluate the only other show in town.

The options are Cruz and Beto.
South Park did an episode about this

Beto made some bad choices and probably pulled some strings decades ago. Cruz wants to actively make life WORSE for tens of millions of people, leading to more early deaths and more DUIs and more ODs.
I could reframe this as a guy who exploited privilege to escape accountability versus the pseudo libertarian.

The moral choice is obvious, even if neither are Christ himself. There is no third choice.
Well there is a third choice and that is voter apathy.
 

Zorba

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So the ends justify the means? I believe that’s how we ended up with Trump in the first place.
We ended up with Trump because dumb fucks decided Hillary was too corrupt, without real evidence, and instead voted for the most corrupt and amoral president this country has ever had.

We have a binary election system, it sucks but it is what it is. Only Republicans make it sound like you should vote for the bigger evil, because it'd be wrong to vote for the lesser evil.
 
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Zorba

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Well there is a third choice and that is voter apathy.
Which gets you Cruz, so you are back to the original two choices. This isn't hard. It is a person that wants to actively make life worse for about a third of the country, or a guy that made some poor personal choices decades ago.
 

Bitek

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But Trump

Beto seems to be on the “W” Bush/Ted Kennedy end of the spectrum in terms of privilege and politically connected “get out of jail free” cards.

So the ends justify the means? I believe that’s how we ended up with Trump in the first place.

Are you voting for policies or personalities?

If the policies are right, is there something personally disqualifying about the man (above that of his opponent) that would make you vote for wrong-headed policies?

It's policies that actually impact the mass of people. That's what matters.
 

Amused

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I tried voting for one of those top individuals but it wasn’t his turn.

Doesn’t matter that he didn’t kill someone. This guy is “W” Bush and Ted Kennedy level, but I guess that counts as qualified in the age of Trump.

He didn't walk because he was rich. Nor did he avoid justice. As a first time offender he was offered an avoidance program in exchange for having the charges dropped. Basically DWI school. His life since has been a testament to the change he has made. It's been nearly 20 years now and his life in those 20 years has been exemplary.

As a teen, I made a similar mistake, driving an unregistered car without a license or insurance. I entered a similar program, and offered to join the US Army in exchange for the dismissal of charges.

Young people make stupid mistakes.

Old people like you make even stupider mistakes like thinking a young person should pay the rest of their lives for a stupid mistake that hurt no one.

I'm very much in favor of taking responsibility for one's mistakes. But after that a person must be allowed to prove they have changed. Beto has done a tremendous job doing just that.

You're way off base here. I suspect it's related more to political bias than actual outrage over his youthful transgressions.
 
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Not sure I agree with regards to Kennedy. Forgiveness is easy to attain when privilege alleviates you from the burden of accountability and remorse seems to be a function of political necessity. Trump is what remains when you remove the facade.

You kind of have to be from MA to understand that last part. Ted appropriately met up with people who had problems on his boat (small boat), he’d have people less fortunate over for the holidays. He didn’t bring the press for a photo op, he just did it because it was right. We didn’t really know about that habit until after Ted died.
*This doesn’t mean the old WBCN comedy clip of Ted giving a tour of the Kennedy mansion isn’t funny.

Regarding Bush, he was a problemed young man too. Not as problemed as Ted but regardless he became a different man. I do believe Bush wanted to help the little guy, he just did it in an ineffective way.
I’ve never given crap to Bush about his drinking. I never will.
 
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