I saw that Cruz video with the bacon...

[CTyankee]

If that doesn't make people wonder about the mental health of the Republican party I don't know what will...we already know...

now we can enjoy saying "I told you so."

[riversedge]

1. I saw it also. GAWD!! AWFUL.

[Stuart G]

2. k and r. nt

[Agschmid]

12. What's your stand on Guns?

I think we'd be better off without them.

[Agschmid]

15. Yes I certainly wish we had that wand.

[Jim__]

4. The sad thing is that it might actually win him some votes. - n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I would have expected that video with Sarah Palin cooking the bacon.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. To his credit ...

... at least it wasn't Turkey Bacon.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. Ted Cruz: Hey, look at me!

I'm just as crazy as Trump!

It has come to this: they're all trying to out-Trump Trump.

[malaise]

9. I am now waiting for the candidate for the Darwin award

who will kill him/herself or take out some innocent person attempting to copy this fucking lunatic posing as a candidate for President.

Is there anything these ReTHUGs won't do for attention?

[CTyankee]

16. It's like that funny video "I just fucking shot myself."

The guy shoots himself in the leg while showing off his prowess with a gun and a target. It's hysterical...

[tularetom]

11. In Texas they're so stupid they'll waste $20 worth of ammunition to cook 3 slices of bacon

[Agschmid]

13. Oh boy... wow.

[John1956PA]

17. It is no longer possible to distinguish Onion satire pieces from real Rethug stories.

The absurdity of the video is beyond description. However, here are a few points which come to mind.

As Rachel stated in her debunking segment last evening, the weapon was not, as Cruz suggested, a "machine gun" which, of course, is an automatic weapon. In warfare, barrels of ground-mounted machine guns have become so hot due to repeated firing that they caused the weapon to fail because the steel of which they were made began to melt.

The hand-held automatic weapon shown in the archive video which Rachel presented displayed a flame plume from the top of its barrel. It is not known if that flame was from burning weapon oil, gases, or some other source. I am thinking that, after the weapon had been fired for about fifteen seconds, the barrel of that hand-held automatic weapon would be hot enough to sizzle a piece of pre-warmed bacon, but repeated firing would be necessary to thoroughly cook it.

The weapon which Cruz used in his video was, according to Rachel, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. I think that it would have required many consecutive firings to cook the pieces of bacon which Cruz wrapped around the rifle's barrel and caused to be held in place with the over-wrapped aluminum foil. At the end of the video, Cruz is shown unwrapping the foil and using a fork to pull a morsel from the end of the wrap and eat it. I think that the morsel which Cruz ingested was cooked more than by just the barrel heat generated by Cruz's firing. I think that the bacon which Cruz nibbled from was pre-microwaved, wrapped on the barrel, and maybe even subjected to an outside heat source.

In any case, I think that the humor which Cruz aimed for by using the weapon in that stunt was sophomoric at best.

[lostnfound]

22. No, I keep saying to myself, "we NEED a president who knows how to cook bacon with a gun!"

Darn, Arnie isn't qualified so who else can we get?

They are mockeries of themselves, parodies of themselves.

What weak, weak minds their base must have.

[Cleita]

18. Even gun nuts should have second thoughts about that.

What a waste of good and expensive ammo not to mention the damage it could do to a perfectly good gun.

Anyone who is that wasteful needs the 90% tax rate imposed on them to teach them not to waste their money that way. Epic fail from any side you look at it.

[Adrahil]

19. And no machine gun.

Even when he's trying to be a right-wing tool, he fucks it up. That was NOT a machine gun. I'm having a sad.

[Gothmog]

20. The GOP candidates are pandering to the idiots who make up the gop base

[CTyankee]

21. they played it on Morning Joe today...so at least that audience knows about it...

[GeorgeGist]

23. Fodder for fools ...

left and right.

[Darb]

24. That's the problem with guys like Cruz, they think they are in the majority.

They think that most people would think that is funny, or cool, or righteous. But I would dare to say that most people think he belongs in a rubber room.