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In reply to the discussion: Ted Cruz’ Creepy, Mean-Spirited New Year’s Message For Fox Viewers [View all]csziggy
(34,189 posts)56. The formatting from the original article was lost when it was copied here
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Other candidates, including Democrat Martin OMalley, appeared in video messages that were generally upbeat. But Cruz, in a voice filled with hammy hope and optimism, talked only of all the things he looks forward to obliterating:
Cruz apparently thought the idea of 17 million people losing their health insurance was such happy news, he didnt feel the need to tell anyone what will replace it.
He didnt say a single thing about what hed create or how he'd fund such things as the military that's going to "utterly destroy" ISIS without an IRS. Not to mention roads, bridges, airport security and Social Security. I would not be surprised if Cruz intended to privatize all of them.
Read more at http://www.newshounds.us/ted_cruz_creepy_mean_spirited_new_year_s_message_for_fox_viewers_010116#VQTePUH6YsjSW1uZ.99
CRUZ: Happy New Year. 2016 is going to be an incredible year. 2016 is going to be the last year of the Obama presidency. 2016 is going to be the last year before Hillary retires permanently to Chappaqua. 2016 is going to be the last year that we have ObamaCare.
Cruz apparently thought the idea of 17 million people losing their health insurance was such happy news, he didnt feel the need to tell anyone what will replace it.
CRUZ: 2016 is going to be the last year until we abolish the IRS. And 2016 is going to be the last year until we utterly destroy ISIS and defeat radical Islamic terrorism.
Like 1980, 2016 is going to be a very, very good year.
He didnt say a single thing about what hed create or how he'd fund such things as the military that's going to "utterly destroy" ISIS without an IRS. Not to mention roads, bridges, airport security and Social Security. I would not be surprised if Cruz intended to privatize all of them.
Read more at http://www.newshounds.us/ted_cruz_creepy_mean_spirited_new_year_s_message_for_fox_viewers_010116#VQTePUH6YsjSW1uZ.99
Losing those blockquotes to set off the comments by Cruz from the comments by the author of the article mixes things up and makes it hard to makes sense of the various statements.
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Cruz figures that he's got to go to the right of trump now to the 'true believers'
big_dog
Jan 2016
#5
Hello...you aren't racist enough. He's still in office. Orly Taitz is still at it.
Gregorian
Jan 2016
#20
Does the dumbass realize that even if he does win, he's not in until 2017?
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#22
What a hateful, nasty jerk. No wonder his colleagues in the Senate hate him so much.
Still In Wisconsin
Jan 2016
#26
They probably think the Almighty will send dollars on a flaming pie from the sky to pay for things.
Vinca
Jan 2016
#41
Aren't the terms "creepy" and "mean-spirited" redundant when you are talking about Cruz?
6000eliot
Jan 2016
#59
Like the recent Rolling Stone article said, this election will define us as one thing or the other
trillion
Jan 2016
#67
I'm convinced the right find the meanst dumbest people in America, and pick them for their leader.
trillion
Jan 2016
#69
I can write an ending for Ted Cruz's lame, unfunny story he told at the end
RFKHumphreyObama
Jan 2016
#71