Well, it's official. On Sunday, in a post and tweet noticed by at least 300 people, Pamela Geller endorsed the candidacy of Ted Cruz:
I endorse Cruz for 2016. The media is going to try to use this against him. But they have been thoroughly discredited in the past week. They are aligned with our enemies.
Get behind Cruz. I know its early — but the truth is, it’s late in the fight. I have been considering this for some time and will write a more comprehensive post when time permits, but Cruz is the best candidate in the field. Bar none.
The proximate impetus for Geller's endorsement of Cruz seems to have been his
bon mot at Saturday's Freedom Summit concerning the events in Garland, TX last weekend. Quipped Cruz:
Thankfully, one police officer helped those terrorists meet their virgins.
Geller's praise for the glib Orientalist humor of Cruz is juxtaposed to her
antipathy for Jeb Bush who, on “the topic that has dominated the national conversation over the past week” [Geller's description of her quasi-martyrdom], is seen to bow and scrape like a "quivering toad":
The day before yesterday I published Ted Cruz’s remarks about the jihad attack in Garland. That’s the kind of leader we need: an unapologetic lover of freedom, not a quivering toad.
It will be interesting to see whether Cruz acknowledges the endorsement and, if so, whether at some point he'll feel compelled to follow the
path of wisdom trod by Christine “mad political skills” O'Donnell and walk away from Teh Crazy.