Republican Party Leadership Is Filled with Genuinely Nasty People — Take the Revealing Depth of Ted Cruz’s Comment about Vice President Biden

© 2015 Peter Free

 

04 June 2015

 

 

Ordinarily, I would ignore Senator Ted Cruz’s poorly timed faux pas as a simple mistake, but . . .

 

In thinking about it, I recognized that it is representative of the Republican Party’s unending hostility against anything demonstrably humane:

 

 

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a crass and poorly timed joke about Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, days after Biden's son Beau died from brain cancer.

 

According to Detroit News reporter Chad Livengood, Cruz was speaking at a meeting of the Livingston County Republican Party outside Detroit when he mocked Biden.

 

"Vice President Joe Biden. You know the nice thing? You don't need a punch line," Cruz said.

 

Biden's son Beau died on Saturday from brain cancer.

 

Livengood said on Twitter that when he asked Cruz after the event why he joked about Biden, given the timing, Cruz simply "turned and walked away."

 

© 2015 Marina Fang, Ted Cruz Jokes About Joe Biden, As Biden Grieves For His Son, Huffington Post (03 June 2015)

 

See the video of Cruz’s comment here.

 

 

If one thinks about Cruz’s jibe more than superficially . . .

 

Cruz's subsequent apology aside, we see that there was no reason to make the Joe Biden joke at all, regardless of its timing.

 

Joe Biden may not be everyone’s first choice for a representation of well-calculated competence. But clearly — given the sorrow-filled adversity the man has overcome, combined with his respect-worthy achievement in getting to the vice presidency — an apparently mental and moral pipsqueak like Senator Cruz — as well as the laughing idiots he was speaking to — have no legitimate business dismissively turning the man into a contemptuous joke.

 

 

The moral? — Senator Cruz is not alone in this kind of behavior, the Republican Party is overwhelmed with similarly definitive jerks

 

Accommodating this crew of soul-diseased vermin wastes moral effort.