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Ted Cruz Just Released the First Presidential Campaign Ad of 2020
Source: VICE News
Ted Cruz Just Released the First Presidential Campaign Ad of 2020
By Harry Cheadle
Senior Editor
May 16, 2016
In case you were wondering what Texas Senator Ted Cruz is going to do now that he's not running to be president in 2016, it appears we have the answer: He's running for president in 2020.
That's the only possible explanation for the smarmy, self-congratulatory five-minute video his dead (or undead) campaign released this weekend, featuring a Cruz staffer musing to an unseen audience about the nature of loss, regret, and the nobility of failing to stop a candidate whose angry nativism and fearmongering was only a shade darker than Cruz's. "Ted Cruz didn't lose, our campaign for president lost," the staffer intones, which I guess is technically true—but still, Cruz definitely didn't win.
Then Cruz himself appears and calls his losing campaign's staff "the finest team in politics I've ever seen, and I suspect has ever come together" and tells them, "Everyone here has poured your hearts into this journey... We left everything on the field." This is accompanied by footage of white people, presumably Cruz supporters, smiling, talking, or just sort of standing around—a montage that manages to be actually pretty dang uplifting and cathartic thanks to some Explosions in the Sky–sounding music that could turn eating pancakes into an emotional climax. The final shot is Cruz's campaign bus driving through a white-light-drenched landscape, followed by the words "TO BE CONTINUED..."
No one ever accused the Canadian-born Texan of lacking chutzpah, and it certainly takes balls to reframe his campaign as a noble, hard-fought crusade on par with the charge of the light brigade. Cruz's political career has been based on naked demagoguery—he's notoriously disliked by his own Senate colleagues, and his main legislative "accomplishment" to date has been helping to shut down the government to force the Democrats to defund Obamacare, a plan that everyone thought would fail, and did.
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By Harry Cheadle
Senior Editor
May 16, 2016
In case you were wondering what Texas Senator Ted Cruz is going to do now that he's not running to be president in 2016, it appears we have the answer: He's running for president in 2020.
That's the only possible explanation for the smarmy, self-congratulatory five-minute video his dead (or undead) campaign released this weekend, featuring a Cruz staffer musing to an unseen audience about the nature of loss, regret, and the nobility of failing to stop a candidate whose angry nativism and fearmongering was only a shade darker than Cruz's. "Ted Cruz didn't lose, our campaign for president lost," the staffer intones, which I guess is technically true—but still, Cruz definitely didn't win.
Then Cruz himself appears and calls his losing campaign's staff "the finest team in politics I've ever seen, and I suspect has ever come together" and tells them, "Everyone here has poured your hearts into this journey... We left everything on the field." This is accompanied by footage of white people, presumably Cruz supporters, smiling, talking, or just sort of standing around—a montage that manages to be actually pretty dang uplifting and cathartic thanks to some Explosions in the Sky–sounding music that could turn eating pancakes into an emotional climax. The final shot is Cruz's campaign bus driving through a white-light-drenched landscape, followed by the words "TO BE CONTINUED..."
No one ever accused the Canadian-born Texan of lacking chutzpah, and it certainly takes balls to reframe his campaign as a noble, hard-fought crusade on par with the charge of the light brigade. Cruz's political career has been based on naked demagoguery—he's notoriously disliked by his own Senate colleagues, and his main legislative "accomplishment" to date has been helping to shut down the government to force the Democrats to defund Obamacare, a plan that everyone thought would fail, and did.
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Read more: http://www.vice.com/read/oh-god-we-have-another-one-of-these-fucking-things-ahead
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