Ted Cruz is fond of talking tough, but as my Dad once told me, “A man who talks about how tough he is usually winds up being a coward.” And I’m betting that if Senator Cruz happened to be in a bar when a fight started, he’d try to hide out in the bathroom.
This week, A pro-Cruz super PAC, going by the name of “Courageous Conservatives,” has released an ad hailing Cruz as a hero who ignored the killing of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School to stand up for gun rights while the majority of Americans were calling for increased gun control.
One line of the ad brags:
“After Sandy Hook, Ted Cruz stopped Obama’s push for new gun control laws.”
So apparently Senator Cruz thinks the wholesale slaughter of 20 innocent children is much less important than assuring that any damn nutjob be allowed to acquire any damn weapon of mass death at any damn time he so wishes.
And since that “courageous” action as a puppet of the NRA, Cruz has repeatedly advocated that any psychopath with a desire to kill your children or mine be allowed to buy a gun and go repeat the horror of Sandy Hook.
But he wasn’t counting on Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut calling him and his scuzzy super PAC out on the ad. In a statement, Senator Murphy wrote:
“If Ted Cruz wants to brandish his pro-gun credentials to Republican primary voters, that’s his right. But it’s sick that he thinks he’ll win votes by specifically pointing out that in the wake of 20 dead first-graders, he was the face of the fight to ensure no action was taken to stop more deranged killers from walking into elementary schools with military-style assault weapons loaded with 30-round clips of ammunition.”
And Murphy was far from finished, adding:
“The new Ted Cruz ad makes me want to throw up, and I’m pretty sure that’s a feeling shared by many who lived through the horror of Sandy Hook. Showing off how callous he was in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting may win him some right-wing votes that get swept up from Donald Trump or Ben Carson, but it disqualifies him in a general election. Middle-of-the-road, common sense voters support measures like expanded background checks. But more importantly, they won’t be impressed by a campaign whose opening pitch to voters is portraying the candidate as the one senator who took on the parents of Sandy Hook in the wake of the most horrific mass shooting in our lifetime.”
Just as we have always suspected, Ted Cruz is an opportunist who will say or do anything–including a victory dance on the graves of innocent children–in order to further his political ambitions. He is disgusting and deserves all the opprobrium that can possibly be heaped upon him.
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