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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz looks like a
mashup of Pat Buchanan and Mitt Romney. What is it with Rs and this cookie cutter type?
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)I'd have pegged him as a narcissistic lying teabagger politician (as opposed to a "run-of-the-mill" narcissistic lying teabagger) from a mile away.
life long demo
(1,113 posts)I don't remember McCarthy, I was a young kid then but I remember my Father talking about him. I think it's his mannerisms.
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)I was just a little kid...but I remember McCarthy. Mean, scary bastard. And Ted Cruz is exactly like him..
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)My parents had the first TV in the neighborhood so my mother could watch those hearings, white knuckled and furious. She'd had a brief flirtation with the CPUSA when they were the only ones standing up to Hitler, left when she realized Stalin was just as nuts.
I remember him, all right, and I remember the fear among adults who knew any neighbor with a grudge could turn them in and wreck their lives because of that little bastard.
And yes, Cruz is just like him. Fortunately for us, Cruz is not making friends the way McCarthy was able to. Other members of his party are learning to hate his guts.
Cruz is the same variety of bully boy as Joe McCarthy was. Let's hope he never learns that he needs to woo allies, not trample over people in his own party to get to ours.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Wobbly jowls and squinty little rat eyes to a T.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)PDJane
(10,103 posts)They look alike, talk alike, think alike, use the same talking points, make up the same shit....they're clones, I tell ya. Men and women both. Women tend to be reasonably pretty, dark hair, none too bright. Men are aggressive, graying, square jawed, none too bright....clones.
GentryDixon
(2,958 posts)He creeps me out.
CurtEastPoint
(18,663 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)My friend believes that evil people are reptile aliens. He does look like one.
denny1952
(6 posts)He looks like the Pillsbury dough boy!!!!!!Someone needs to put a pin in him.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)A whole different croud of people would be here
blogslut
(38,016 posts)Q: What's the difference between Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy?
A: Joe McCarthy had a chin.