The Sad Tragedy That Is Ted Cruz Is a Lying Fuck Bastard

In an opinion piece written for CNN, James Moore posits the following observation about Ted Cruz:  

He might have been the best of us. He is the worst of us.

Methinks Mr. Moore is giving Ted a bit more credit that he's due.

I on the other hand simply consign Ted to the trash heap of history under the heading: 

I've long been fascinated and/or appalled (mostly appalled) by Ted Cruz and his propensity for smug self righteousness in the service of his own political ambitions. 

The sad thing is that I do agree with James Moore: Ted Cruz could've been so much better. 

Look at his college graduate record: 

• Graduate of Harvard Law School
• And a graduate of Princeton University

OK, someone doesn't do that unless they have some intelligence. 

And in his legal career, Ted Cruz authored 70 Supreme Court briefs and argued nine cases before the US Supreme Court.

This is not the record of a man lacking in intelligence. 

And yet... 

Over the last weeks, Ted Cruz has consistently put himself on the wrong side of history in defense of a man Cruz once described as a "pathological liar" and a "sniveling coward". 

Cruz took up the cause of Donald Trump's verifiably false narrative that the presidential election was rigged and Trump really won the election. 

Cruz volunteered to argue before the Supreme Court any challenges to the vote that came before the court.  

Cruz signed on to challenge the results of the Electoral College, a specious act that added fuel to the fire of the amassed angry Trump supporters that stormed the Capitol on January 6th.  

Cruz then refused to hold Trump to account for his role in that siege of the Capitol when Donald Trump was impeached for a second time, arguing that such impeachment was divisive and now was a time for healing, unity and peace. All this despite Ted Cruz's own role in creating division and a decided lack of healing, unity and peace.

Ted Cruz can't help being himself, an obsequious hypocrite. Or to put it another way: 

James Moore in his op-ed piece for CNN offers an explanation for Cruz's conduct regarding Trump's false election narrative. 

Donald Trump had riled up the 74 million people who voted for him to falsely believe their voices had been silenced by a stolen election. Ted Cruz saw a chance to communicate to those 74 million people that he is their guy to take back the White House in 2024. 

So Ted Cruz propagated the mass delusion of a stolen election which in turn lead to the attempted coup in Washington, DC. in order to advance his own political ambitions. 

Jame Moore's analysis is parallel to mine about the motives of Ted Cruz. Or to put it more succinctly, 

Ted Cruz is a lying fuck bastard. 

And the sad truth is he didn't have to be. Maybe as James Moore wrote, he could've been so much better if Cruz was capable of looking beyond his own personal ambitions. 

But he's not. So...

Ted Cruz is a lying fuck bastard.