Dumb things conservatives say:

[Back]

Ted Cruz...

1. On Obama’s plot to kidnap him: “So this afternoon President Obama has invited the Senate Republicans to the White House. So after leaving here, I’m going to be going to the White House. I will make a request. if I’m never seen again, please send a search and rescue team. I very much hope by tomorrow morning I don’t wake up amidst the Syrian rebels.”


2. On the press: “The media wants America to give up and allow this country to keep sliding off the edge of the cliff.”


3. On the Constitution: “This is an administration that seems bound and determine to violate every single one of our bill of rights. I don’t know that they have yet violated the Third Amendment, but I expect them to start quartering soldiers in peoples’ homes soon.”

[Shaps]

Ted Cruz...

1. On Obama’s plot to kidnap him: “So this afternoon President Obama has invited the Senate Republicans to the White House. So after leaving here, I’m going to be going to the White House. I will make a request. if I’m never seen again, please send a search and rescue team. I very much hope by tomorrow morning I don’t wake up amidst the Syrian rebels.”


2. On the press: “The media wants America to give up and allow this country to keep sliding off the edge of the cliff.”


3. On the Constitution: “This is an administration that seems bound and determine to violate every single one of our bill of rights. I don’t know that they have yet violated the Third Amendment, but I expect them to start quartering soldiers in peoples’ homes soon.”

I guess sarcasm is lost on most people. Delicate thing when the low information voter can not understand it.

[Atlanteax]

Yep, Back clearly did not pick up on that Cruz was not serious when he was making those comments.

[4a6c1]

I don't know I kind of think, if you're a politician and a servant of the people you should be held accountable for everything you say whether it's joking or not. Cruz says stupid stuff like this all the time when he gets nervous. But there's a point at which you have to say to yourself, okay...I'm in the public eye and I'm a national figurehead for the conservative party...no more stupid jokes.

[cwolff]

I don't know I kind of think, if you're a politician and a servant of the people you should be held accountable for everything you say whether it's joking or not. Cruz says stupid stuff like this all the time when he gets nervous. But there's a point at which you have to say to yourself, okay...I'm in the public eye and I'm a national figurehead for the conservative party...no more stupid jokes.

A big problem is that he's not accountable to the american people, only accountable to enough people in his district to get re-elected. We like to think that we pick our rep's but it's equally true that our rep's pick us.

I understand the anger that the Tea Party is expressing. The problem is that you can't govern from a place of anger. They are not really for anything, just against things. The USA has changed and these people are stuck in the denial, anger and bargaining stages of grief. It happens whenever we evolve. As latrin likes to point out the arguments they are making are the same arguments made for things like not allowing women to vote, institutional racism and even the debate over changing the name Redskins.

[4a6c1]

Good points. And you're spot on that they are not really for anything. It's interesting how the demographic of the Tea Party tends to be boomers. They have been losing traction in social issues gradually over the last thirty years and now the economy is sunk, they are getting up there in years and they are trying to blame the younger generations for their problems. Its probably the most counterintuitive "uprising" the US has ever had. I see their collective message as "Hi, we're the boomers. We had it easy because our parents were brave as fuck for 2 world wars so that we could coast through life. Now these shitty new people are asking for all the same entitlements we had and fuck them! we're old and we want to be taken care of, only old people get welfare, hah!" History will also not fail to see they became popular with the rise of the first black president, whatever those facts imply.

[cwolff]

Watching the news clips of the Veterans march on DC, including the idiot with the Confederate flag. I'm surprised how those guys were such dicks to the cops. Most of the cops were probably veterans.

Also surprised to hear them say stupid stuff like telling the cops they better clean up the horse shit off of "our" streets and telling them "you work for us". Isn't that the whole point Obama was making when he said "Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." These folks are a real national treasure. It's just a shame they might make the news in other countries.

[Taernath]

No particular demographic has a monopoly on idiocy, and I think some of them let the war hero talk go to their heads.

[Tenlaar]

I've still been looking at the trucker's facebook page every now and then. It's such a sad display of idiocy and conspiracy theories. It makes me laugh while the last little bit of hope I had for humanity is squashed.

[Methais]

Isn't that the whole point Obama was making when he said "Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." These folks are a real national treasure. It's just a shame they might make the news in other countries.

No, that wasn't Obama's point at all. His point was YOU ARE ALL NOTHING WITHOUT GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!111