You may want to have a barf bag handy for this one.
But then, that’s pretty much true of anything involving Ted Cruz, who stood smiling on a debate stage while Donald Trump accused his father of complicity in JFK’s assassination, and fled to Mexico when the Texas power grid failed and some of his constituents froze to death.
So what’s Ted Cruz, or “Ted Crud” as some liberals refer to him, up to now? Oh, his usual nonsense tinged with his trademark hypocrisy and cowardice.
Cruz, unlike several other politicians better tuned in to public sensitivities than he is, went ahead with his appearance at an NRA convention in Houston a couple days after the Uvalde grade school massacre of 19 little kids.
Speaking at the convention, he said this about gun-control advocates:
“Many of these same people make their accusations from behind great bulwarks of safety, from gated communities equipped with private security or, at the very least, from safe and expensive neighborhoods protected by high home prices and low crime rates. Such people can afford an indulgent ideology that ignores reality.”
And what’s Ted Cruz’s reality? Yes, lots of people got around to asking about that. It’s something like this:
“Since October 2020, the Cruz campaign has paid Houston-area executive protection firm Atlas Glinn nearly half a million dollars to protect himself and his family—$499,661, almost all of it in monthly lump sums averaging around $30,000, according to federal disclosures. (The Atlas Glinn website features a photo of a security detail guarding Cruz in a parade car.) … Cruz has spent so much donor money ensuring his own safety that he has fully exhausted the $442,343 he’s received over the years from the gun lobby, and then some.”
(Sourced from here.) I’m not going to post the photo of Cruz’s security detail; I gave you the link to it. In it, he looks a whole lot like a president being guarded by a Secret Service detail. Need I say more? Other than Cruz will never be president?
That’s because everybody despises him, including most of his own constituents, and not without justification. So why does he keep getting re-elected? Because Texas being Texas, they’d rather re-elect him than elect a Democrat. Here is as clear an example as you’ll ever get of people voting for the party label instead of the character of the candidate. He chose a state for his political career wisely.
As for Ted Cruz’s house, he as at least two. One in Washington D.C., which is more accessible to protesters (see photo here), and his Houston compound, shown in the aerial photo at left.
I’m pretty sure you can’t walk up to it and ring the doorbell. He keeps a pretty high wall between himself and strangers.
I would, too, if I were him. Especially with all those guns floating around in the open parts of society, which he helped put in the hands of madmen, and he knows all too well that he helps keep them there.