Donald Trump’s rally for Sen. Ted Cruz in Houston on Monday was quite the lovefest, a sign of how completely Cruz has abandoned what he pretended were his principles during his 2016 presidential primary run and how effectively he’s sucked up to Trump’s bottomless ego. Back then, Trump was a “pathological liar,” a “narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen,” and “utterly amoral,” according to Cruz, who, for once, wasn’t wrong. Now Lyin’ Ted has become Ass-kissin’ Ted and his message is “I am honored that President Trump is here endorsing and supporting my campaign and I look forward to campaigning alongside him in 2020.”
“Ted’s opponent in this race is a stone cold phony named Robert Francis O’Rourke,” Trump said. “And he pretends to be a moderate, but he’s actually a radical open-borders left-winger.”
Don’t you love a Republican campaign for Rafael Cruz, who went by Felito as a child before switching to Ted, that keeps making a big deal out of the fact that Robert Francis O’Rourke has gone by a single common-in-his-area nickname since early childhood? They’re Republicans, so they need a cheap personal attack, but Beto is so much cooler and more charismatic than Cruz that this is what they’re left with after the band photo attack flopped: his nickname.
The nickname attack was intended to underline O’Rourke’s “phony” status, that “he pretends to be a moderate, but he’s actually a radical open-borders left-winger,” a statement that came in the same speech where Trump proudly declared himself a nationalist. Being a radical left winger in the eyes of a self-proclaimed nationalist, though? Not so radical, and having a racist, anti-immigrant nationalist attack you should be a point of pride for any decent person.
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