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Lets have a TEDtalk; about Ted Cruz, that is.

Imagine you were told your wife was ugly. What would your reaction be towards the person who said it? Imagine you’re told. That your father was possibly involved in the murder of JFK. How would you react to the person who said this?

Initially Ted Cruz had the reaction you would expect. He was angry. He said the former game show host was not fit to be president and was a hypocrite, and called him all kind of horrible, but well deserved, nasty names.

But then the former game show host won the presidency, and all of a sudden Ted forgot all about the insults, and overnight became one of the most fervent disciples of the new president.

Why did he do that? Fear! Cowardly fear of becoming irrelevant in the senate because he didn’t support the MAGA guy. Ted showed he was suffering from the same disease that affects Lindsey Graham, called DSS, or dissolving spine syndrome. All of a sudden he became one of the biggest supporters of the game show host. He bent over and let the president do what he wanted to do.

We all remember what happened when a large part of the state of Texas lost electricity. We saw Ted running through the airport on the way to the gates to catch a plane to Mexico. The reason he had to run was that his spine was about to give up completely.

At a time when his constituents needed him most he did not have the will (or the spine) to stay and do what he was elected to do and help these people. Instead, he decided to flee and have a nice long weekend with the family on a sunny beach, while the people of his district were fighting to get food, heat and water.

SHAME on you Ted. You are a nasty, cowardly and spineless excuse for a human being. Don’t just take our word for this. Below are a few quotes from people on both sides of the political spectrum about how they view you. We looked long and hard to find complementary quotes but not surprisingly were unable to do so.

1. “If you killed him on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,” (Lindsey Graham)

2. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.” (John Boehner)

3. “I hate Ted and I think I’ll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination.” (Peter King)

4. “I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone. I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.” (Craig Mazin, former roommate at Princeton University;now a Hollywood screenwriter)

5. “He’s a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him.”
(The former gameshow host)

6. “Just look at Ted’s face: it’s got career scum politician, aka liar, written all over it.” (Ann Coulter)

7. “You know, it’s always the wacko birds that get the media megaphone,” (John McCain)

8. “Ted is an army of one, alienating anybody who is in his path. He advocates losing strategies purely to further his own career at the expense of the party.” (John Feehery, former Republican congressional aide)

9. Ted Cruz, go fuck yourself. (John Boehner in his audio book “On The House”)

10. “I mean, think about what a yutz this guy is! I don’t care what your political view is: If a guy said that my wife was ugly and my father killed Kennedy, there is no way in the world you could have me come out and say, ‘I’ll defend you in front of the supreme court.” (George Clooney)