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I just sent this message to Ted Cruz. Maybe I shouldn't have. I have had a couple of beers. Oh well it is how I feel.
Unlike you, I was born and raised in Texas. I will never lie about your Dad or denigrate your wife's looks like our current President did. You have no backbone! I am not liberal, but I believe in Democracy. You do not. You believe in power and are embracing elements of humanity that my father was drafted to fight against. My aim is not to get a response from you. I have zero respect for you. I just want you to know, as a white, Christian, rancher who owns guns, I do not agree with you trying to overturn the will of legitimate elections of multiple states. You disgust me. That is my main message. You are un-Democratic and un-American. That is my opinion. Now go suck up to the guy that denigrated your father and wife.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,037 posts)Stallion
(6,473 posts)cheers
treestar
(82,383 posts)He deserves every word!
wendyb-NC
(3,250 posts)and very well stated. He needs to ponder those words, because they are the truth.
Trailrider1951
(3,409 posts)anytime you want to verbally abuse that rancid piece of dung, you have all my blessing! And you do it so well, too! I'll even send you a stamped envelope so you can do it in writing!
RainCaster
(10,690 posts)Really, you should post that in your local paper. I bet you will get lots of "hell yeahs" for that.
calimary
(80,699 posts)At this point, Im just past all that. Fed up. And angry as shit.
SledDriver
(2,049 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)But you said what needed to be said!
Thank you!
Karadeniz
(22,279 posts)Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)effective, staccato bullets of heartfelt truth. Everyone in Texas should copy and send it to Ted the weasel.
Freedomofspeech
(4,218 posts)iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)liberalla
(9,165 posts)niyad
(112,435 posts)Red Mountain
(1,705 posts)to print it, wrap it around a brick, and deliver it personally.
Into his yard.
Through his window would be a bit much.
Red Mountain
(1,705 posts).....and I think it's completely fair....he is pushing this country to become what his family fled in Cuba.
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)ad121rome
(151 posts)If anything you were too nice. Great points, well expressed with a great closing statement.
panfluteman
(2,054 posts)You've come a long way, baby! And really - sucking up to a guy who slandered both your father and your wife!!! Trump and/or Putin must really have some powerful dirt / kompromat on Ted Cruz. I don't even think that Senator Lyndsey Graham has come as far in his about face on Trump as Ted Cruz has - not by a country mile.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)efhmc
(14,709 posts)family are Dems. One of my daughters actually went to SBHS with Cruz. He was older than her but was known to brag that he and his crew would take over the world. Creepy then and even creepier now.
texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)The only stretch in my email to his office was that I was "not liberal". That might be true in terms of DU, but in terms of Texas that may not be true.
efhmc
(14,709 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,383 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)mainer
(12,013 posts)Heidi Cruz is a attractive woman and the family breadwinner. She should leave ol useless Ted and find someone wholl stand by her.
efhmc
(14,709 posts)church thinks of them as offshoots of men no matter how capable and successful they are. The man is the head of the house and of them always.
Escurumbele
(3,340 posts)Thank you for doing it.
JGug1
(320 posts)You Da BOMB, DUDE. You are fabulous, wonderful, thoughtful and good. Great job.
Maybe you shouldn't have sent it? No, you should have sent it sooner.
texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately, in Texas white landowners who are perceived as potential Republican swing votes can catch the attention of asshole repukes. Everything (with possibly the exception of the "I'm not Liberal" comment) was dead on true. It is true I might not be a "liberal" on DU. However, this is not the case in terms of Texas standards.
Larissa
(786 posts)You took the words right out of my mouth! I salute you!!
myohmy2
(3,118 posts)...
George II
(67,782 posts)texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)BlueTexasMan
(165 posts)Have guns for different jobs, hammers for the same, hound dogs grace my porch, my first name is two names. Live out in the woods, with the squirrels and deer, Biden sign in front, no proud boy do I fear. Time to take a stock of who represents our state, see them for what they are with their money and their hate. Let's run'em outa town and vote some other slate, then care for all our neighbors in this great lone star state!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Applause from Western NY state!
BlueTexasMan
(165 posts)I guess I got a little carried away, waxing poetic and all. It's just I felt like I had to say something to this rancher's comments about Cruise. What hacks me off about Swarmy-Ted is that he uses his preacher style voice to manipulate the brainwashed christians that are trained to respond to that style of intonation. I recognize that voice because when I grew up, we went to church three times a week. There's good in the church, but honestly the congregation is used to being told what to do and not to think. Fake pastor Cruise is more than happy to tell them what to do. If there's a devil, Cruise is definitely a disciple.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)KT2000
(20,544 posts)Succinctly written and you got all the points in there! Well done!
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)And that, Mr. Fiddler, is how we do things in Texas!
Screw Ted! You did great!
Upthevibe
(7,884 posts)That's simply perfect. This stands out to me: "You believe in power and are embracing elements of humanity that my father was drafted to fight against."
Thank you....
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Upthevibe This message was self-deleted by its author.
denvine
(798 posts)Good for you for sending it to him. It's exactly what he needs to hear if he had a heart, or a soul, or patriotism or a spine, integrity or scruples which unfortunately he has none of that. He still needs to hear it, especially from a true Texan. Thank you! I loathe that man!
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)In "un-Democratic". That makes it look like a reference to the party. A Republican can be democratic, meaning supporting democracy (even though it's very rare at this time.
Other than that, I think it's perfect.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)On the off chance that he is seriously miffed by this, it would require at least some the characteristics of a vertebrate for him to actually do something.
electric_blue68
(14,621 posts)Dukkha
(7,341 posts)Cruz is a slimy little worm in every sense of the term.
jaxexpat
(6,703 posts)When I lived there it was customary, if not actually required, to keep a can of beer between one's legs when driving. That was before cup holders sprung up in every possible car interior space (which was probably a Texas-targeted sales gimmick). Automobile journeys were not measured in miles or duration but in beers consumed. I drove through Houston a couple years ago. The place has really grown. What was an easy 2 beer breeze is now a 4 beer drive, or more. In rush hour traffic it could go to a six pack. It used to be a guaranteed 12 pack drive to the Alamo from downtown Galveston. These days it's practically a case just to get past Rosenburg. It's like, as gas mileage improves with the modern auto engines, the beer MPG just keeps going down with the traffic. And with all the drunks on the roads, it's DANGEROUS.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,048 posts)Now go have another beer and write to John Cornyn...he's pretty much an asshole, too.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)DFW
(54,055 posts)Echoing perfectly what millions of Texans feel.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)czarjak
(11,194 posts)texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)CRK7376
(2,190 posts)No apology needed. You stated it perfectly.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)sarchasm
(1,009 posts)...for putting into words what I'm sure we all here on DU feel.
PJMcK
(21,921 posts)Your expressions of disgust are excellent.
A minor point: You're not liberal? (wink)