Ted Cruz Is a Lying Fuck Bastard - Part 3

Blog Bidness
As I referenced in yesterday's post, I currently have pneumonia which is either what I had all along or what I had has now become. Whatever the case, it's really messing with my head and making it hard to be creative. So I'm STILL working on the Super Bowl post.  

To fill the space, I'm moving this week's edition of TED CRUZ IS A LYING FUCK BASTARD from Friday to now. 

Enjoy!

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Hello, dear reader. I am Dave-El and I humbly welcome you to my blog, I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses You. 

Today is another entry in a series of posts that will examine the statements of one of the candidates for US President, taking a measured and scholarly examination of this particular individual's expressions in speeches, debates and comments to the media and looking deep into the meanings of words and the very concepts of truth itself. I call this series of posts...

If I may, let us go forth. 

Let's start off with one of Ted's older lies where he 
misrepresented an academic study when he claimed that the “overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats.” (Click highlighted link for more on this story.)  

The claim is based on research that found a majority of ex-felons in three states registered as Democrats. But that was a study of all ex-felons, not just violent criminals, as Cruz framed it. 

Also, a follow-up study of three additional states by the same authors found the majority of ex-felons in those states were neither Republican nor Democrat.

Another study estimated ex-felons are more likely to vote Democratic than Republican, but the authors caution that that doesn’t mean criminality is associated with partisanship. Rather, it is a reflection that those in the criminal justice system are more likely to be black, Latino or poor whites.

Here's a distortion of the truth by Sen. Cruz of a more recent vintage while attacking Sen. Marco Rubio’s stance on immigration on January 31st, 2016.  

"On the question of amnesty, it is a fact that right now, Marco Rubio advocates amnesty for 12 million people here illegally. He advocates legalization and citizenship for everyone here illegally. He even advocates amnesty for criminals who are here illegally. it is also a fact that Marco has said when he went on Spanish television with Jorge Ramos that he would not revoke President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty on the first day in office. He said you can’t do that overnight. That’s going to take time. If I’m elected president, I will rescind every single one of President Obama’s illegal executive orders on day one."

• Cruz claims Rubio “advocates amnesty for criminals who are here illegally.” But Rubio supports deporting felons, and he has supported legislation that would bar legal status for those with three or more misdemeanors and those with a single serious misdemeanor, such as a domestic violence or drunk driving offense.
• Cruz claims Rubio said “that he would not revoke President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty on the first day in office.” Rubio said he wouldn’t immediately revoke Obama’s 2012 order protecting so-called “Dreamers” — young people brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents. But Rubio has said he would revoke Obama’s 2014 executive action that protects as many as 5 million adults from deportation.

And notice in the Cruz quote above his use of his favorite thing to add info front of a lie: it is a fact. 

For more on the details of this dust-up between Cruz and Rubio (and there are a lot of more details), click here for info.

Finally (Ted is a bad and busy little boy, ain't he?), Ted Cruz announced on Sunday the endorsements of six New Hampshire state representatives who had previously supported Rand Paul. At least one representative was surprised to see his name. (Click the highlighted text for more on this story.)  

The representative, J.R. Hoell, had met with Mr. Cruz, senator from Texas, on Friday, he said. “I made it clear I could not support him,” Mr. Hoell said in a phone interview on Sunday evening, citing Mr. Cruz’s foreign policy positions.

Yet there's his name as a full fledged supporter of Sen. Cruz.

Oh, Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted. 

Tsk. Tsk.  

It's stuff like this that leads us to say...

TED CRUZ IS A LYING FUCK BASTARD. 

Thank you ever so much for your presence today. Remember to be good to one another and I'll return with another post tomorrow.  

Sorry, one more thing under the heading of...

TED CRUZ IS A LYING FUCK BASTARD. 

Get a load of this mailing from the office of Sen. Ted Cruz.

Yes, there is a check enclosed. And that's where the truth ends. To read more about THAT, click here.