February 27, 2013 4:49 AM

Ted Cruz: "At long last, Sen. Cruz, have you no sense of decency?"

What is this, the inquisition? A guy can’t hurl a few Palin-esque “you’re a terrorist or terrorist lover” insults at another guy without people going all, “Hey didn’t you say there were Communists hiding out at Harvard?”…. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) spokesperson thinks it’s “curious” that the New Yorker would cover a speech he gave two years ago when he McCarthyed his way into the arms of the Koch brothers with suggestions that Harvard was a cover for a Marxist government take over plot. You see, Ted Cruz’s history has nothing to do with anything. Leave him alone!

Ted Cruz is, by most measurements, an impotent, ineffective, fear-mongering McCarthyite with little to offer except character assassination, and mean-spirited bats—t craziness. His unfounded, thinly-veiled questioning of Chuck Hagel’s loyalty and patriotism lays bare what an unrepentant bully Cruz is- and, like most bullies, he hates it when the tables are turned.

In 2010, Cruz gave a now well-chronicled speech in which he claimed there were more Communists among the Harvard Law School faculty than Republicans. The thoroughly forgettable speech would have remained exactly that except for Cruz’ channeling Joseph McCarthy during Hagel’s confirmation hearing, so he can’t claim to be surprised that his words are being used against him three years later. It’s one thing to believe that there are more Communists than Republicans at Harvard Law School. It’s quite another to toss that accusation into the ether and expect the words to magically disappear at the speech’s conclusion.

Cruz’ staff (And doesn’t THAT seem like a regrettable and thankless job?) is now in full damage control mode. Like any good demagogue, they recognize that the best defense is a good offense.

Cruz’s spokesman called it “curious” that The New Yorker would cover Cruz’s speech “three years” after he gave it. But Cruz’s hostile questioning of Obama’s nominee for Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, and insinuations about Hagel’s loyalties had provided a fresh context for looking more closely at the nature of the accusations he has leveled at political opponents. Observers like Senator Barbara Boxer wondered if they were seeing a revival of McCarthyism. Judging from Cruz’s speech—and, now, his defense of it—it’s a good question.

Cruz has been in Washington less than two months, and he’s well on his way to alienating most everyone inside the Beltway, Democrat or Republican. Comparing him to Joseph McCarthy is distressingly accurate; beyond seeing Reds around every corner, Cruz is convinced that the UN wants to ban golf courses. Even worse, he’s a gay-hating conspiracy theorist, he believes in “creeping Sharia, and he just LOVES him some death penalty.

How could someone so intelligent be so astonishingly stupid?? Ted Cruz doesn’t fit the stereotype of a stupid man. Not in the conventional sense, at least. He has a J.D. from Harvard Law School (as does President Obama), and he’s had a reputation in Texas as an “intellectual force.”. Ted Cruz may well be the face of Evil, but let’s not forget that the sheeple of Texas elected him.

Something about getting exactly the quality of leadership they deserve, eh??

BETTER DEAD THAN RED!!

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