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Related: About this forumPervy Ted Cruz molests little girl for photo op
This guy makes my skin crawl. I mean ick!! Yuck!! Gross!!
You know what they say about little kids and dogs being able to smell who the good guys are? I believe it. That little girl knows.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Not sure but I thought I heard that it was. If so, well then, doesn't that speak volumes?
subterranean
(3,427 posts)I like how she tried to flick him away like a bug. (Would have been even better if she flipped him off!)
Wibly
(613 posts)And scummy as he is, everyone experiences their kid being petulant.
Posting this, and using it to attack the creep, makes you just as bad as the creep.
This is the sort of garbage I'd expect from the GOP. Seeing Democrats engage in this sort of dirty pool makes me want to vote Cruz just to piss you off!
You don't defeat scum by getting into the gutter and swimming around like it.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Enjoy your stay.
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)That does put this interaction in a different context. Kids will be kids.
Pushing her arm away a couple of times to give her some kisses and show her some affection does not seem nearly as creepy to me if it is his own child. I do still think it looks a little bit icky, though.
He looks right at the camera in front of him with a kind of guilty look for a second right afterward. The look seems to me to say, "Oops, I tried to force a kiss on my daughter for a photo-op, and that did not go as planned. In fact, that probably looked bad instead of good. Whoops."
I feel like it's still a genuine reaction on her part, so it's fair game. I would have chosen a different title for the post if I had had this context. I appreciate the information that it is his daughter. It's not nearly as creepy.
He is still a creep, in my opinion. And he still makes my skin crawl.
elmac
(4,642 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!
jaxind
(1,074 posts)It's not dirty politics because when strictlyrockers posted this, he/she thought it was just a random girl (and that would make anyone's skin crawl!). But, now knowing that it's cruz's daughter, striclyrocker points out he's still a scumbag because he probably only did that for a photo op (which actually backfired)!
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)The girl is his seven-year-old daughter. Not only can kids be petulant and surly, she is probably very tired and BORED with campaigning and attending boring speeches and rallies. To read into this and even say he is molesting her is really low stuff.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)I used the same title for the video that the original YouTube poster used.
The word "molests" does seem a little over the top here now. It's a click-bait title.