Waa Waa Senator Cruz Laughably Tried to Put a Tough Guy Edge on Anti-Terrorism’s Cry Baby Demagoguery

© 2015 Peter Free

 

19 November 2015

 

 

Senator Ted Cruz, posing as the manly man

 

Senator Ted Cruz tried to “tough guy” President Obama for deriding Republicans over their fear of Syrian refugee 3-year olds:

 

 

Speaking in Turkey and again in the Philippines earlier this week, Obama chided Republicans for wanting to allow only Christian Syrians, rather than Muslims ones, into the U.S.

 

"At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three-year-old orphans [see here]," the president said. "That doesn't seem so tough to me."

 

Cruz addressed the president's remarks after an event on Capitol Hill, taking issue with what he called "cheap insults" made on foreign soil.

 

"If you want to insult me, you can do it overseas, you can do it in Turkey, you can do it in foreign countries, but come back and insult me to my face," Cruz said to NBC News.

 

"Let's have a debate on Syrian refugees right now. We can do it anywhere you want....It's easy to toss a cheap insult where no one can respond."

 

© 2015 Igor Bobic, Ted Cruz To Obama: 'Come Back And Insult Me To My Face', Huffington Post (18 November 2015) (extracts)

 

 

We are awed by the vigor of your scrotal juice, oh Senator!

 

Presumably when the President comes home, the Texas Senator will show his allegedly girly man Commander in Chief what’s what about terrorist 3-year olds.

 

 

Think, too, about the giggle-inducing illogic of Senator Cruz’s complaint

 

The proud Senator chastises the President for a comment made in the Philippines, as if the President’s geographic location prevented the prickly Texan from responding.

 

And then the Senator immediately proceeds to respond, thereby destroying his own argument about “It's easy to toss a cheap insult where no one can respond.”

 

Cruz compounds this flaw in logic by directly insulting the President’s courage — under circumstances in which the President had only taken an intellectual position deriding what passes as the current Republican stance on refugees.

 

Is "imbecilically self-contradictory" too harsh a characterization of Senator Cruz’s chosen position?

 

 

The moral? — When caught being nasty, hypocritically un-Christian and ridiculously trivial — some American politicians divert attention by pretending to be tough guys

 

While much of the rest of the world seriously burns.

 

There is little so absurdly contemptible as rich, metaphorically porky, and safely far from the action “white” guys pretending that they are resilient and inspired enough to get through the suffering that Syrians, Iraqis, and Afghanis endure every day.

 

Calling these cowardly American poseurs (of any political stripe) “douches”, insults that method of hygiene. Although it does suggest a methodologically parallel path toward leadership improvement.