So Ted is in the news recently about wanting to defund the UN, complaining about upcoming Democratic obstruction (with no hint of irony), and promising to introduce an upcoming bill to fight LGBT rights. Upon seeing his profile with these stories, I realized something. For the longest time, anytime I saw Ted Cruz's squinty-eyed mug in my news feed, I used to feel righteous anger. Here was a conservative that was wrapped so tightly around his principles that he’d be willing to shut the whole country down for them. I didn't hate him—in fact, I wished progressives would be willing to fight so hard for their principles as well and not give a damn if they were liked.
I even felt sorry for him when his roommate in college routinely attacked him personally by documenting on Twitter how disgusting he was. I thought that was beyond the pale and doesn’t that guy understand Ted has a family now?
But when I inevitably see his mug now, I suddenly realized that I don’t have any of that anger anymore. What I feel is more like disgust.
I realized that I seem to care more about Ted’s family than Ted does.
There isn't a person alive who I have less respect for than Rafael Edward Cruz. His betrayal of own wife, Heidi, and his still-living father is deplorably horrendous. And now, both people have to watch as Ted licks the boots of the man he should be standing up to on their behalf. Instantly, I understand all of the visceral hatred and loathing from all of those people who had gotten to know Ted Cruz so well throughout his life—from his school years to his colleagues in Congress. (Even John Boehner referred to him as a "miserable son of a bitch.")
Ted isn’t principled at all. Quite the opposite. Soon after Trump attacked his family, Ted called Trump a pathological liar, utterly immoral, a woman-hater, and a betrayer of every single conservative principle. Yet after Trump thought it would be fun to string Ted along, (ala Romney-style), suddenly, Ted switched gears and said he would be “eager" to work in his new administration. Ted was willing to betray his own family, those closest to him, for a futile quest to get ahead.
And this is what Trump said about your damn father….
By the way, when Trump announced that he would “spill the beans” on Heidi Cruz, he was very likely talking about shaming her for suffering from severe depression. These are images I took from tweets being shared amongst Trump supporters:
Making fun of her face, and threatening to “spill the beans" on her fight with depression. (Yup, that’s our new president.) What is even more pathetic than Ted Cruz not defending his wife over this is the fact that he has proven what a simple tool he is.
Donald Trump is the ultimate user of people. You could have easily figured that out by seeing how he refuses to pay his contractors for work they've done. Yet even if you chose to ignore all of that, then you just needed to see how he treated those who sacrificed everything to join his court. For over a year, Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani have shamelessly carried his water: each of them took hits to their already sullied reputations by tying themselves into knots justifying his boorish behavior. Their reward? They are no longer useful, and they have been tossed in the garbage bin. Christie was quickly removed from his only job as transition head and now has nothing. Rudy was told bluntly after Trump won that he wouldn't be getting any position in the new administration at all.
Did Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz REALLY think Donald would make a place for them if they groveled enough?
You don’t need liberals to point this out. Bre Payton, from the rightwing "Federalist":
“What is useful is getting Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz to suck up to him and very publicly apologize and reverse their positions and embarrass themselves, which is exactly what they’re doing"
RedState and other conservative outlets stopped singing Ted Cruz’s praises. How much of a pariah do you have to be to make conservatives ashamed of you? Trump supporters never liked him and still don’t—and never thought much of his family whom they still don’t regard as “off-limits” even after Ted’s groveling.
I can’t imagine what this gross spectacle must be like for Heidi Cruz. This year she had to put up with unsubstantiated affair rumors, personal attacks about her appearance and mental health, and now she has to watch her pathetic excuse of a husband humiliate himself before the RNC’s newly declared "king" responsible for all of this. Worst of all is that none of this is private: everyone in the nation knows who Ted is and exactly what he did (and didn’t) do for her.
I pity her, but I honestly had to stop defending her on my social media from Trump’s knuckle-dragging goons. There is something seriously wrong with a liberal blogger defending her more than her husband. If she’s fine with all of this, then it’s not my place to step in.