Texas voters on Tuesday nominated Ted Cruz to be the Republican nominee to replace Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the U.S. Senate, virtually guaranteeing that he’ll be in that body in January. Who is Ted Cruz? A complete nutball, one of those far right loonies who thinks the United Nations is going to take over the country any minute now and bans gun and, believe it or not, golf courses too. Read his position on one of the right’s favorite mythical boogeymen, Agenda 21:
In 1992, the United Nations adopted Agenda 21 to “achieve a more efficient and equitable world economy,” outlining a process to eliminate environmental decay and social injustice through micromanaging industries, communities, and culture. They will meet again next year to discuss its “progress” in over 100 nations.
The originator of this grand scheme is George Soros, who candidly supports socialism and believes that global development must progress through eliminating national sovereignty and private property. He has given millions to this project. But he is not the only one promoting this plan; in fact, the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) now consists of over 600 cities in the United States.
Agenda 21 attempts to abolish “unsustainable” environments, including golf courses, grazing pastures, and paved roads. It hopes to leave mother earth’s surface unscratched by mankind. Everyone wants clean water and clean air, but Agenda 21 dehumanizes individuals by removing the very thing that has defined Americans since the beginning—our freedom.
Another wackadoodle fantasy, like the fluoride in the drinking water, the Chinese troops massing on the Mexican border to invade the country, the UN troops that will use those road signs to take over the country, and other paranoid lunacy pushed by the John Birch Society and their fellow travelers. And this will be a U.S. Senator in a few months.
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Michael Heath
August 6, 2012 at 9:38 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So it’s safe to conclude Ted Cruz is also a global warming denialist?
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
August 6, 2012 at 9:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They’re dismayingly capable of multi-tasking stupidity.
slc1
August 6, 2012 at 9:47 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Another example of the deterioration of the Rethuglican Party when the relatively sane Kay Bailey Hutchinson is replaced by a nutcase like this asshole.
rturpin
August 6, 2012 at 9:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
In the campaign, Dewhurst didn’t point out how loony Cruz was, but instead ran on the platform that “I’m just as crazy as any of ‘em.”
timgueguen
August 6, 2012 at 9:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And Palin supports Cruz if I remember the Cruz online ads I saw correctly.
d cwilson
August 6, 2012 at 10:01 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Looks like Bachmann will have more competition for the title of most batshit crazy member of Congress. Things are already tightening up with Steve King and Louie “Terror Babies” Gohmert.
But at least our golf courses will have protection from imaginary black helicopters now.
raven
August 6, 2012 at 10:03 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Polykookery is quite common.
If you are going to believe one silly thing, might as well believe them all.
So where do the Space Reptiles fit in his fantasies? Maybe they are hiding Obama’s real birth certificate.
dingojack
August 6, 2012 at 10:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So – as long as the good Senator (to be) has his freedom, he’s perfectly willing to sacrifice his precious bodily fluids?
Pah – and he calls himself a Republican. :)
Dingo
Mr Ed
August 6, 2012 at 10:13 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Golf.
The right has distilled ever argument and every position down to two options. If they are for it then it is a mandated by heaven and if they are against it some unpopular group (liberals, gays, big government and foreigners) is taking our freedoms. Either the Republican party is now being run by the inmates or they have realized that their base doesn’t care about cogent arguments.
coragyps
August 6, 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
One of Cruz’s ads (seen often as a popup here on FTB lately) for the runoff election was “Defeat Moderate Dewhurst.” So I guess “moderate” is the new “librul,” which, as we know, is the new “commie.”
I wonder if Albania is accepting immigrants?
thisisaturingtest
August 6, 2012 at 10:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
coragyps, @#10:
Now that, to me, is truly frightening- that America is becoming a land so polarized and defined by forced extremist positions that a word like “moderate” can be used to tar an opponent. Doesn’t the phrase “out of many, one” mean anything to the people who want to force such an America on the rest of us?
Aliasalpha
August 6, 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Isn’t that whack job plan rather similar to Drax’s plan in Moonraker? Less bio weapons in his one but that could change at any minute depending on how the paranoia rays hit their brains…
KG
August 6, 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Unfortunately, chances are he’ll fit right in.
dingojack
August 6, 2012 at 10:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
thisisaturingtest – Perhaps they think ‘E pluribus unum’ in furriner for:
“There can only be one (and sure ain’t gonna be you, loser!)”
Dingo
KG
August 6, 2012 at 10:52 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The extremist positions are, at least so far as candidates with any real chance of being elected, on one side only.
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
August 6, 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
E pluribus unum means In God We Trust innit?
Michael Heath
August 6, 2012 at 11:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
thisisaturingtest writes:
The transformation of the Republican party didn’t suddenly occur, conservatives have been working on domination within the GOP since around the mid-1970s.
In the very early 2000s I recall Rush Limbaugh venting on his radio show about how much he hated moderates, which I am. He went on and on about how moderates were far worse than even liberals. IIRC I assumed at that time his ire was largely due to the economic success of the time partly due to moderate fiscal policies deployed by moderates like Presidents H.W. Bush and Clinton, which required the support of then-extant moderate Republicans despised by conservatives. Where we know the easiest way to get under the skin of conservatives is to make it impossible for them to avoid inconvenient facts getting Limbaugh’s panties in a bunch.
Just like conservatives lie about most of history, these conservative Republicans also lied when they came up with and used the term RINO to describe non-conservative Republicans prior to their coming to dominate the party. RINO’s is now applicable when directed towards moderates, but it certainly wasn’t through the 1990s and even arguably, the early-2000s. Especially since those most likely to use the term better in that earlier period identified with conservative Democrats during the Civil War and Jim Crow era where their domination of the Republican party was both relatively recent and in contra to the long-held though quickly eroding values of the Republican party. Values which caused me to join the GOP in 1978 and, due to their current contempt of those values, caused me leave the party in 2008. A decision I do not regret.
Michael Heath
August 6, 2012 at 11:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What does the Democratic party have to lose by running a candidate against Mr. Cruz who constantly notes how he’s batshit crazy? And then compare the similarity and approached he uses for his nutso beliefs to those of other Republican candidates running in other jurisdictions, including outside Texas. Seems like a ready-made opportunity to portray Republicans as a bunch of incompetent hypocritical juvenile nihilistic idiotic delusional corrupt hacks, even if the Democrats lose that particular race.
thisisaturingtest
August 6, 2012 at 12:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
KG, @#15- yes, I agree with you there. What I was trying to get across with my use of the word “forced” was the idea that adopting such an extremist opinion that the word “moderate” becomes an acceptable slur forces a perception of that moderate position as equally extremist. I’m still not putting it very clearly, I know, but, taken together with Michael Heath’s #17 and #18, maybe you’ll see where I’m trying to go.
eamick
August 6, 2012 at 1:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s Hutchison, not Hutchinson.
dailydouq
August 6, 2012 at 1:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well at least now Rand Paul will have someone to pal around with. They can try to one-up each other with crazy. Can’t wait until Bernie Sanders has some choice words for this idiot.
grumpyoldfart
August 6, 2012 at 2:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So his cunning plan worked.
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Politicians wouldn’t try to sell this stuff if the people weren’t prepared to buy it.
Area Man
August 7, 2012 at 1:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I wonder if he’s related to the George Soros who was a major financier of pro-democracy groups dedicated to bringing down Communism in Eastern Europe? Sounds like a completely different person, but the name sure is similar.
richardrathbun
August 7, 2012 at 8:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Area Man — agreed, and it never ceases to amaze me at all the billionaire Socialists who promote Socialism(TM) and want to ELIMINATE private property and make everyone poor. Including their billionaire selves.
And it doesn’t even seem to begin to register with the bullshit-spouters or the bullshit-eaters.
dingojack
August 7, 2012 at 8:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
richardrathbun – I don’t know, but I suspect their thinking goes like this:
a) Socialist are Evuuul! [Authority figure X told me so].
b) Elitists (ie the wrong rich people) are Evuuul! [Same source].
c) If I got a chance to be evuuul, what would I do? Take every-one’s money away!
d) Elites get more ‘elite-y’ and more ‘socialist’ and more evuull and ready for a smitin’ from the lawd.
e) People like me get persecuted, thus more worthy.
f) Baby jeebus cracks a comsmic hard-on specially for me!
Or something of that nature.
Dingo