Ted Cruz has a curious mind. He’s very smart, book wise, nobody says otherwise. He graduated from fine schools with honors. But the man does not belong in politics or any field where a grasp of human nature and an intuitive feel for the shifting elements of society is key. Politics takes a certain kind of intelligence and Cruz doesn’t have it. He tries to fake affability and God knows his efforts to become a Donald Trump knock off are comical and that’s because he’s lacking some kind of a plug in, for lack of a better description. It just isn’t in the man’s psychological makeup to actually relate to people or their issues at the gut level. He’s in politics for money and power and not to make a positive difference in peoples’ lives and it shows. He’s a wanna be social engineer with zero social skills and the engineering part alone just won’t cut it.
Cruz did a recent interview where he went on to describe how “history” shows him to be in the catbird seat with respect to the 2024 GOP nomination. What makes this utterly hilarious is that Cruz is apparently the only person in the country, the only one in politics certainly, that doesn’t understand that history is meaningless in this context because when the GOP put Trump on the 2016 ticket, it reset the clock. The GOP broke the mould and all the rules of politics when it elevated the game show host into politics at the presidential level.
The rest of the world knows what a disaster followed from that Republican decision and Trump’s subsequent election, but Ted Cruz thinks that it’s all business as usual. It’s on that basis that he believes that he has a shot at the 2024 GOP nomination. Listen to this. It’s incredible.
Ted Cruz actually thinks that he is going to get elected President of the United States in 2024. This is too good! Interview this morning. pic.twitter.com/EpUELXaLtO
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 22, 2021
And Cruz also misses a few other key points, in a forest for the trees manner. First, he was “runner up” in 2016 because there was a klown kar of 17 candidates but no leaders. The GOP has had a vacuum of leadership for many years and that’s the only reason the talk show host managed to maneuver his way credibly into the field to begin with. The talk show host could do television. None of the others could do television, or politics for that matter, and so the guy who could do TV was the candidate by default. That is truly how pathetic the GOP primary was, if memory has failed you.
Cruz grasps absolutely nothing of the import of the past five, six years because he doesn’t have the mind for it. He’s a facts and figures, statistician kind of a guy. He can’t parse out the effect of the facts and figures on reality and on peoples’ lives. He is not in touch with real life and how it is lived. He’s detached from all that, yet his ego tells him he’s qualified to hold the most powerful job in the world. He’s very Trumpian in that regard.
The reason that Ted Cruz plays out as the oleaginous weasel that he does is because he lacks insight into human nature and he utterly lacks charm, but he doesn’t know that. So he oils himself up and ingratiates himself to people and he believes that that is effective human communication. The fact that he comes across as a pompous ass has never crossed his mind.
I marvel at Ted Cruz and always have. He simply baffles me. There is nothing real about the man. He is an educated poseur who believes he’s a statesman and he thinks that you believe it, too.
That said, look for Cruz to possibly seek the nomination. Maybe he can convince Mike Pence to take the number two spot once again. They can run as the Out Of Touch Boys.
Ted Cruz will be president when I am crowned Miss Teenage America and fly off the stage mounted on a pig.
Cruz has an ego and thinks he’s the smartest guy in *every* room. But he doesn’t grasp that he’s remarkably unpopular.
Ted Cruz, as a Presidential candidate, would be a less likeable, more clueless version of Mitt Romney. He’d be what Harry Truman saw Nixon as if the former had run against the latter: an opponent so weak that he didn’t even have to get out of bed to beat him.
Cruz is remarkably tone deaf. Some things you can’t learn. You either have antennae and you can tune in to what’s going on or you do not. At least this has been my experience of life.
Which begs the question, Ursula, of how he got elected in the first place. But I should also clarify something: I’d LOVE for him to take his shot. He’d miss the whole thing by lightyears and we’d still be in charge.