Live Video: Ted Cruz Rants at #CPAC2016

The theocratic Texan speaks to the usual audience of right wingers

PoliticsMarch 2016 • Views: 41,289

Here’s another chance to grok the essential creepiness of Ted Cruz, the theocratic Senator from Texas who’s trying to overtake Donald Trump in the extremist sweepstakes known as the Republican presidential campaign.

As all the GOP candidates advocate carrying guns everywhere, here’s the sign people see as they enter CPAC. pic.twitter.com/ASGP3lAltQ

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2016

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68 comments

goddamnedfrank Mar 4, 2016 • 1:36:17pm

Attention Hague International War Crimes Prosecutors: I’d like to report a hippie playing his ukulele at the IN-n-OUT Burger.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 4, 2016

Lidane Mar 4, 2016 • 1:40:46pm

Anti-gay Alabama Justices surrender to marriage equality in the most childish way possible https://t.co/s4uyzVWQ4O pic.twitter.com/r8q6tVFmJk

— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 4, 2016

b.d. Mar 4, 2016 • 1:42:28pm

Spend a late Friday afternoon stuck at CPAC listening to a Ted Cruz?

F that noise.

Charles Johnson Mar 4, 2016 • 1:42:42pm

Ted Cruz says the Supreme Court is going to “erase the 2nd Amendment from the Bill of Rights.” Unless he’s elected, of course.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2016

Testy Toad T Mar 4, 2016 • 1:42:55pm

re: #2 Lidane

Those kids look galactically bored.

lockjawcanbefun Mar 4, 2016 • 1:44:07pm

Principled Constitutionalist - Someone who agrees with me

plansbandc Mar 4, 2016 • 1:44:25pm

That voice is the stuff of fevered nightmares.

mmmirele Mar 4, 2016 • 1:44:54pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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He’s quite the pander bear, isn’t he? Thankfully my evil, too big to fail employer frowns on effluvia like live CPAC in the office.

piratedan Mar 4, 2016 • 1:45:04pm

Boy… if any gathering was asking for a meteor strike, this one is it……

Skip Intro Mar 4, 2016 • 1:45:49pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Elect Cruz and he’ll make sure they erase every amendment except the 2nd.

lockjawcanbefun Mar 4, 2016 • 1:45:49pm

Imagine this speech done in Sarah Palin’s voice.

Decatur Deb Mar 4, 2016 • 1:45:54pm

Can’t see it. Are they passing snakes around yet?

Skip Intro Mar 4, 2016 • 1:46:23pm

Does he still have his booger problem?

De Kolta Chair Mar 4, 2016 • 1:47:42pm

Cruz’s immigration riff not going over gangbusters here. Lotta Libertarians here.

— Drew McCoy (@DrewMTips) March 4, 2016

Skip Intro Mar 4, 2016 • 1:49:46pm

Cruz would increase his electability by wearing a Grandpa Munster costume while campaigning.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Mar 4, 2016 • 1:50:22pm

re: #14 De Kolta Chair

Cruz’s immigration riff not going over gangbusters here. Lotta Libertarians here.
— Drew McCoy

Obviously these ornery youngster Libertarian people need to be conservatively re-educated from all the heathen liberal liberty stuff they’ve picked up from TV and Ayn Rand.

Charles Johnson Mar 4, 2016 • 1:50:30pm

Ted Cruz screaming at #CPAC2016: “We should use overwhelming force, KILL THE ENEMY, THEN GET THE HECK OUT!” https://t.co/vLQsc4mxOR

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2016

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Mar 4, 2016 • 1:51:27pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Who or where are we invading now?

EPR-radar Mar 4, 2016 • 1:51:29pm

I’m getting into the swing of things this GOP primary season. When I first saw the OP, I read it as

“the excrement ~~extremist~~ sweepstakes known as the Republican presidential campaign”

lockjawcanbefun Mar 4, 2016 • 1:52:11pm

re: #18 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Abyssinia

Testy Toad T Mar 4, 2016 • 1:52:32pm

re: #18 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Who or where are we invading now?

Uzbeckibeckibeckistan.

De Kolta Chair Mar 4, 2016 • 1:53:07pm

Yuuugely classy!

“@AngieSteinberg: GET THAT POS WSJ LIAR FANTASY PUNDIT @marykissel OFF THE AIR. Blah blah. A real dummy! @Morning_Joe @realDonaldTrump

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2016

Decatur Deb Mar 4, 2016 • 1:53:20pm

re: #20 lockjawcanbefun

Abyssinia

So it’s alphabetical order, then?

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Mar 4, 2016 • 1:53:32pm

re: #22 De Kolta Chair

Yuuugely classy!

Very leadership much presidential.

Barefoot Grin Mar 4, 2016 • 1:54:09pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

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Strategic, pinpoint carpet bombing again?

Ziggy_TARDIS Mar 4, 2016 • 1:54:29pm

Hey, is CL here?

I need to try to talk to her in regards to Muslim to Muslim stuff. A person at the matrimonial group at the mosque I go to the most made me uncomfortable, and I want to know if I am interpreting it wrong.

Decatur Deb Mar 4, 2016 • 1:54:44pm

re: #25 Barefoot Grin

Strategic, pinpoint carpet bombing again?

Weddings only.

The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork Mar 4, 2016 • 1:56:15pm

See, Cruz is actually the better demonstration of how fucked up the GOP is.

His policies are fucking nuts, and his deceptions are blatant…but his ideas are are coherent part of the garment of insane shit that governs “the base.”

He isn’t winning with the base because he’s a sucking void of charisma. He’s hated by the patent-medicine wing of the party because he’s actually willing to fuck the economy.

…and that’s it.

All of his other contemptuous, deceptive shit that holds civil liberties in contempt and literally says “I don’t give a shit about the Bill of Rights, let alone Supreme Court precedent” is just fine.

Barefoot Grin Mar 4, 2016 • 1:57:57pm

re: #22 De Kolta Chair

Yuuugely classy!

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I read this Mary Kissel’s TL for a few clicks and I almost feel sympathy for Trump. “Cruz beats Hillary in the polls” WTF?

Skip Intro Mar 4, 2016 • 1:59:06pm

re: #22 De Kolta Chair

The funny thing is @marykissel is just another huge wingnut; she’s just not Drumpf’s wingnut.

Nyet Mar 4, 2016 • 1:59:52pm

From that Alabama SC decision, Moore’s opinion:

Liberty in the American system of government is not the right to define one’s own reality in defiance of the Creator.

Skip Intro Mar 4, 2016 • 2:00:58pm

re: #31 Nyet

From that Alabama SC decision, Moore’s opinion:

Ooooo-kay.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Mar 4, 2016 • 2:01:55pm

re: #31 Nyet

From that Alabama SC decision, Moore’s opinion:

Right, Liberty is whatever wingnuts say it is.

withak Mar 4, 2016 • 2:01:58pm

re: #31 Nyet

From that Alabama SC decision, Moore’s opinion:

And if Cruz somehow got elected, we may very well see something like Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore.

Sorry, I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Nyet Mar 4, 2016 • 2:02:05pm

re: #32 Skip Intro

Give them power and they will be worse than the Iranian mullahs.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Mar 4, 2016 • 2:02:10pm

re: #31 Nyet

From that Alabama SC decision, Moore’s opinion:

Thought conservatives loved Liberty.

piratedan Mar 4, 2016 • 2:02:36pm

re: #31 Nyet

then it sounds like the Alabama Bar Association has some disbarment procedures to initiate.

Nyet Mar 4, 2016 • 2:02:44pm

re: #36 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

You are free to do as we say.

The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork Mar 4, 2016 • 2:02:53pm

re: #33 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Drop the sarcasm tag: your assessment is entirely accurate.

lockjawcanbefun Mar 4, 2016 • 2:03:22pm

“This audience would riot if they saw K.C. and the Sunshine Band!” - MST3K - Angel’s Revenge

EPR-radar Mar 4, 2016 • 2:03:29pm

re: #31 Nyet

From that Alabama SC decision, Moore’s opinion:

Moore is a theocratic pinhead. I hope law schools start using that opinion as a case study on just how stupid judges look when they indulge themselves in over a hundred pages of whining dicta for a losing cause.

Barefoot Grin Mar 4, 2016 • 2:03:32pm

“It’s ‘Adam and Eve’ not ‘Adam and Steve’”!

Gay commentator: “of course not; it’s ‘Adam and Stephen’.”

De Kolta Chair Mar 4, 2016 • 2:03:45pm

Can’t make this stuff up—- pic.twitter.com/QrRznewYZH

— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) March 4, 2016

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 4, 2016 • 2:04:50pm

re: #43 De Kolta Chair

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Hey, that’s a good place to look for them, in a bird.

Barefoot Grin Mar 4, 2016 • 2:04:57pm

re: #43 De Kolta Chair

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Thanks! I had a clump of mucus in my lungs that I was finally able to dislodge from laughing….

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 4, 2016 • 2:05:19pm

re: #42 Barefoot Grin

“It’s ‘Adam and Eve’ not ‘Adam and Steve’”!

Gay commentator: “of course not; it’s ‘Adam and Stephen’.”

Baldwin?

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 4, 2016 • 2:05:39pm

re: #45 Barefoot Grin

Thanks! I had a clump of mucus in my lungs that I was finally able to dislodge from laughing….

Now clean it off the screen.

Ziggy_TARDIS Mar 4, 2016 • 2:05:57pm

re: #43 De Kolta Chair

You forgot a few letters.

Here they are

“N”and “U”

Skip Intro Mar 4, 2016 • 2:06:54pm

re: #33 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Right, Liberty is whatever wingnuts say it is.

/

This country has been in a steep moral decline ever since the Salem witch trials ended.

Barefoot Grin Mar 4, 2016 • 2:07:23pm

re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White

Now clean it off the screen.

I should have an old sock around here somewhere….

Decatur Deb Mar 4, 2016 • 2:08:46pm

re: #37 piratedan

then it sounds like the Alabama Bar Association has some disbarment procedures to initiate.

He was already removed from his position once, over his 10 Commandments monument. The good folks of my state voted him back in.

Nyet Mar 4, 2016 • 2:08:54pm

The Obergefell opinion, being manifestly absurd and unjust and contrary to reason and divine law, is not entitled to precedential value.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Mar 4, 2016 • 2:09:08pm

Twitter wingnuts complaining about Cruz campaigning in Florida against third-place front runner Rubio….

Nyet Mar 4, 2016 • 2:11:34pm

Obergefell itself is the corrupt descendant of the Court’s lawless sexual-freedom opinions that hearken back to Griswold — a “derelict in the stream of the law”

Skip Intro Mar 4, 2016 • 2:12:32pm

Two dorks on stage at CPAC

Ziggy_TARDIS Mar 4, 2016 • 2:13:32pm

re: #54 Nyet

Who the hell is saying this?

Nyet Mar 4, 2016 • 2:15:42pm

Justice Bolin:

The ethical considerations here involve judicial prudence and discretion, not technicalities. My statement in Hinton in no way provides Chief Justice Moore with justification to participate or vote in this case. Whether any participation or vote by him violates the Canons of Judicial Ethics is an issue I do not address.

Fourth Football of the Apocalypse Mar 4, 2016 • 2:15:48pm

re: #54 Nyet

LAWLESS SEXUAL-FREEDOM OPINIONS!!!!!!!!111

Nyet Mar 4, 2016 • 2:15:50pm

re: #56 Ziggy_TARDIS

Roy Moore.

Ziggy_TARDIS Mar 4, 2016 • 2:16:18pm

re: #59 Nyet

Lunatic needs to be thrown off the bench.

Barefoot Grin Mar 4, 2016 • 2:16:45pm

re: #54 Nyet

Griswold? Was that in the first National Lampoon’s Vacation? because I hardly thought gawking at Christie Brinkley was somehow egregious.

Decatur Deb Mar 4, 2016 • 2:18:05pm

re: #60 Ziggy_TARDIS

Lunatic needs to be thrown off the bench.

He was. He bounced back.

Decatur Deb Mar 4, 2016 • 2:19:34pm

re: #59 Nyet

Roy Moore.

Per yesterday: It looks like the Egyptian flight student’s return is something like a plea bargain.

Egyptian student who threatened Trump agrees to leave U.S.

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