Ted Cruz thinks cucumbers taste better pickled

novembre 30, 2015

Ted Cruz thinks cucumbers taste better pickled

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Last Friday, a domestic terrorist killed four people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As if the location wasn’t enough to establish a motive, the suspect, 57 year-old Robert Lewis Dear, reportedly yelled “no more baby parts” during a standoff with the police.

In other words, if there was ever a time for Republicans to speak up and apologize for lying and lying and lying about Planned Parenthood selling baby parts, that time is now.

The Republican field hasn’t gotten the memo, however. Thanksgiving weekend was marked by GOP candidates saying as little as possible about the attack. And what they did say ranged from misguided to appalling. Mike Huckabee called the shooting an act of domestic terrorism, but reminded listeners in the same breath that millions of babies die in the Planned Parenthood clinics like the one that was targeted. Carly Fiorina denounced violence…while equating Dear to a Black Lives Matter protestor.

Neither Huckabee nor Fiorina had anything on Ted Cruz, though, who won the weekend’s round of Who Can Say the Worst Thing About a Tragedy when he misdirected about the rhetoric surrounding the tragedy. From the Huffington Post:

Ted Cruz, via DonkeyHotey / Flickr

Speaking with reporters following the event, Cruz rejected suggestions that the shooter was part of the anti-abortion movement, taking issue with the “vicious rhetoric on the left blaming those who are pro-life.”

Robert Lewis Dear, 57, was taken into custody Friday night after allegedly opening fire inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing three and injuring nine others.

When a reporter reminded the Texas senator that the suspect allegedly made a comment about “baby parts” while being arrested, Cruz countered, “It’s also been reported that he was registered as an independent and a woman and transgendered leftist activist, if that’s what he is.”

Cruz is referring to right wing bloggers, who reported on Saturday that Dear is listed as female on his voter registration. It appears that, like Bill O’Reilly, he checked the wrong box on his form.

Cruz’s campaign later clarified that Cruz didn’t mean to imply that Dear was actually a “transgendered leftist activist,” but rather that “there isn’t enough information.” In other words, it’s just as likely that Dear is exactly who he says he is as compared to a ridiculous caricature of what the right wing imagines white criminals to be. You see a radical conservative Christian, Gateway Pundit sees the opposite. HOW CAN WE TELL THE DIFFERENCE???

Aside from Dear’s penchant for handing anti-Obama literature to complete strangers.

Cruz’s is a particularly lazy form of misdirection, to say nothing of a drastic deviation from the conclusions he was more than willing to jump to following the Paris attacks. He might as well have said that some people think cucumbers taste better pickled. While no less ridiculous, at least that bit of misdirection would have been true.