It’s a good time to be a hater in America. You have an entire political
cabal devoted to catering to your hating, even though there aren’t
enough of you to elect even their best candidate to the highest office
in the land. In fact, never in the course of human history has so little
been owed by so few for so little.
On Friday, Sandy Rios, the unAmerican antiFamily Asshat’s notorious
anti-gay and anti-muslim agitator, endorsed Cruz for pretender. This
is the outfit that boasts Bryan Fischer, the guy who says neither jews
nor christians have First Amendment rights.
Sandy Rios herself has made the news before, as when she claimed being gay crashed Amtrak or called President Obama an
atheist with muslim sympathies.
It is hard to make getting Sandy Rios on your side sound like an
accomplishment, but this is the kind of talk Cruz loves, announcing on
his campaign website
that “Citing his strong commitment to wingnut delusions and
respect for the fictional wingnut 'constitution'” that Sandy Rios has endorsed him for
pretender:
“I am thrilled to have the support of three of the wingnuts’ delusion strongest voices for families, religious liberty
and the unborn,” said Cruz. “We are running an aggressive
grassroots campaign and their help engaging and motivating wingnut trolls gives our effort a great advantage.”
Sandy Rios is the Director of Governmental Affairs for the unAmerican
antiFamily Asshats, one of America’s largest, anti-family grassroots covens, and host of “Sandy Rios in the Morning on AFR Talk” which
can be heard on nearly 200 stations through the unAmerican antiFamily Radio
Network.
So Cruz is proud to have the endorsement of a true hater like
Rios, whose politics of exclusion are much like his own and his
father’s.
And Rios, as haters go, is a valuable endorsement with a large public
profile. Rios made further headlines among progressives and liberals
this spring when MSNBC, including Chris Matthews, had her on as a guest to discuss the supposed “religious freedom” legislation without disclosing her history of virulent rhetoric.
People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch
provides a full rundown
of Rios’ hate speech, and it makes truly horrific reading. At a time
when Republican candidates are scrambling for the hate vote, Rios’
endorsement lends credibility to the Cruz campaign and to Ted Cruz’s
conservative
bona fides.
Despite Lindsey Graham’s famous warning that the hate pool is
limited, the hate vote is seen as critical by Republican pretender
hopefuls.
The Texas Tribune reports
that Cruz joined five of his fellow hopefuls – Carson, Jeb,
Fiorina, Santorum and Huckabee – in Texas to talk to a
crowd of 6,000 at a baptist megacult Sunday, “lamenting the receding
role of 'christianity' in public life and expressing alarm about growing
threats to religious freedom”:
Among the hottest topics at the North Texas Pretender
Forum was religious liberty, especially in light of the U.S. Supreme
Court decision in June that legalized gay marriage in all 50 states. Cruz was the most vocal, recalling at length a rally he
held earlier this year in Iowa spotlighting people who believe they were
discriminated against for religious reasons.
“As these threats grow darker and darker and darker, they are waking
people up here in Texas and across this country,” said Cruz, who
received a rock star reception from the home-state crowd.
CNN correspondent Athena Jones also
noted the “rock star welcome” and “Lots of whistles and cheers and hoots and hollers.”
And Cruz wowed them with his hate, prompting the following exchange between Prestonwood’s pastor, Jack Graham, and Cruz:
Graham: “My goodness, you know how to fire people up. You could be a preacher.”
Cruz: “It’s even worse, I’m a PK.”
Graham: “A preacher’s kid. The Lord seems to be
elevating you and giving you favor with people and you’re certainly,
here in Texas, you’re back home and we’re really glad that you are.”
Standing in the bosom of darkness as he was, Cruz was no doubt glad
too. He won’t be feeling that love everywhere he goes. It is difficult
for us non-cultists to understand the appeal. We hear Cruz speak and
shrink back in horror, mouthing, “What the f#%&…” Cruz comes across
as beady-eyed, mealy-mouthed and weaselly and if one word in ten is the
truth it’s a miracle.
But this is what Republicans love. And Cruz gives it to them in spades. The day after the Texas hatefest, Cruz celebrated by winning the hate-vote in North Carolina
There is no doubt the haters will vote for a Republican and there is a
certain amount of satisfaction to be had in watching lunatics scrabble
for the vote of a few crazies who aren’t numerous enough to elect them.
It’s sort of anti-politics, because in politics, people actually want to
get
elected and that doesn’t seem to be the purpose here. Rather, the goal
seems to be labeled as the one who hate is the strongest. And that
person, according to expert hater Sandy Rios, a lot of haters in Texas
and teabagger extremists in North Carolina, is Cruz.
