Ted Cruz's political career over?

[enhanced_deficit]

Not just because of terrible failure of his recent efforts to cozy up to AOC following DC riot or alienating evangelicals or not working out but due to a series of blunders.
Although, this might not be a big issue necessarily under "Family, God, Country" or "God, Family, Country" prioritis model post "America-First" movement's premature end.

Ted Cruz’s Cancún Trip: Family Texts Detail His Political Blunder

The Texas senator faced fierce blowback for fleeing his state as a disaster unfolded. Text messages sent by his wife revealed a hastily planned trip away from their “FREEZING” family home.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas flew home from a vacation to Mexico after receiving heavy criticism for leaving the state while millions have struggled with a lack of electricity and water after a brutal winter storm.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas flew home from a vacation to Mexico after receiving heavy criticism for leaving the state while millions have struggled with a lack of electricity and water after a brutal winter storm.CreditCredit...Reuters

• Feb. 18, 2021

Like millions of his constituents across Texas, Senator Ted Cruz had a frigid home without electricity this week amid the state’s power crisis. But unlike most, Mr. Cruz got out, fleeing Houston and hopping a Wednesday afternoon flight to Cancún with his family for a respite at a luxury resort.
Photos of Mr. Cruz and his wife, Heidi, boarding the flight ricocheted quickly across social media and left both his political allies and rivals aghast at a tropical trip as a disaster unfolded at home. The blowback only intensified after Mr. Cruz, a Republican, released a statement saying he had flown to Mexico “to be a good dad” and accompany his daughters and their friends; he noted he was flying back Thursday afternoon, though he did not disclose how long he had originally intended to stay.
Text messages sent from Ms. Cruz to friends and Houston neighbors on Wednesday revealed a hastily planned trip. Their house was “FREEZING,” as Ms. Cruz put it — and she proposed a getaway until Sunday. Ms. Cruz invited others to join them at the Ritz-Carlton in Cancún, where they had stayed “many times,” noting the room price this week ($309 per night) and its good security. The text messages were provided to The New York Times and confirmed by a second person on the thread, who declined to be identified because of the private nature of the texts.

nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/politics/ted-cruz-storm-cancun.html





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'He Is Lying. People Are Dying': Calls for Texas Governor to Resign


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfgUFQWw2E

 

[Snowball]

Conservatives don't even think like this.

It's his right to go to Cancun. The jealousy tinge is a liberal trait, and not becoming.

More than a tad petty. Leave Ted Alone.

 

[TheCount]

It's his right to go to Cancun.

Nobody's questioning his ability to go to Cancun. It's his clearly poor leadership skills and utter lack of a sense of responsibility to represent and act in the best interest of his constituents that are the issue.


The fact that he's clearly lying through his teeth about absolutely everything involved certainly doesn't help either

 

[tfurrh]

Conservatives don't even think like this.

It's his right to go to Cancun. The jealousy tinge is a liberal trait, and not becoming.

More than a tad petty. Leave Ted Alone.

I'm a conservative. I think this seems like fiddling while Rome burned. But he still has several years before reelection. We will all forget like good Americans.

 

[Anti Globalist]

No I'm pretty sure his political career will be just fine.

 

[kahless]

On one hand as said above it is more of a liberal complaint and on the other there is a bit of hypocrisy with his leadership skills called into question. It will depend on how the party and news media tell voters how to think that will decide what will come from this. If the elites and party are happy with him then this will soon be forgotten about. Perhaps already forgotten.

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

On one hand as said above it is more of a liberal complaint and on the other there is a bit of hypocrisy with his leadership skills called into question. It will depend on how the party and news media tell voters how to think that will decide what will come from this. If the elites and party are happy with him then this will soon be forgotten about. Perhaps already forgotten.

Yes. Correct. Personally I think you should not give excuses for doing so but stimulate anyone else to figure out similar ways to beat the system. As long as you break no laws what is the problem ? I thought this was America we're talking about.

 

[jkr]

asking for a friend,
what exactly could he DO IN texas?
and as an added bonus
republicans have no real power, sooooo
...

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

If a person has no power and it is very cold and they have an opportunity to go on vacation where it is warm, I say go on vacation.

 

[tod evans]

I wonder how many dems voted for him?

 

[oyarde]

Last I checked Ted wasnt running for Gov

 

[jmdrake]

Nobody's questioning his ability to go to Cancun. It's his clearly poor leadership skills and utter lack of a sense of responsibility to represent and act in the best interest of his constituents that are the issue.


The fact that he's clearly lying through his teeth about absolutely everything involved certainly doesn't help either

Yeah...well with a media that buries the Hunter Biden laptop story, and gave almost no coverage to the Washington Post Fact check that caught Kamala Harris lying over her lack of support as state attorney for California for statewide investigations of police shootings and carried water for Andrew Cuomo's nursing home COVID story making him some kind of hero/foil to Trump until after Trump was out of office, now throwing him away to make room for Kamala 2024....yeah with that kind of bias his career might be over.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Conservatives don't even think like this.

It's his right to go to Cancun. The jealousy tinge is a liberal trait, and not becoming.

More than a tad petty. Leave Ted Alone.

On one hand as said above it is more of a liberal complaint and on the other there is a bit of hypocrisy with his leadership skills called into question. It will depend on how the party and news media tell voters how to think that will decide what will come from this. If the elites and party are happy with him then this will soon be forgotten about. Perhaps already forgotten.

In brief sampling of social media, almost all of critical views and memes appear to be from liberal wing and conservatives seem to be mostly silent or may have been banned.


Texas mayor resigns after telling residents desperate for power and heat "only the strong will survive"

February 18, 2021
A Texas mayor resigned after seemingly telling residents to fend for themselves in a Facebook post amid a deadly and record-breaking winter storm that left much of the state without power Tuesday.

As then-mayor of Colorado City, Tim Boyd wrote an insensitive message for people desperate for heat, water and power, saying "only the strong will survive and the weak will [perish.]"

"No one owes you [or] your family anything; nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this!" he said. "Sink or swim it's your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I'm sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout."

Mayor of Colorado City, Texas RESIGNS after posting this controversial Facebook post. pic.twitter.com/EDGaiDkmDR
— ET Breaking News (@breaking_et) February 17, 2021

​

Boyd told people without water to "think outside the box to survive" and called people waiting in the cold because they have no power "lazy" – even as authorities were telling people to stay home to avoid icy roads.

"Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout!!" he said, before finishing off his message in capital letters,"DONT [be] PART OF PROBLEM, BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION!!"

The post was deleted, but circulated widely on social media. Boyd received intense backlash for his remarks and later announced he quit his office in another Facebook message.
cbsnews.com/news/tim-boyd-texas-mayor-colorado-city-resigns-power-outages/




Many people already forgot that he had advocated 'boots on the ground' US military intervention in Syria during Obama years, so this could be a distant past memory down the raod too. Unless such meme became part of Dems attack ads come election time.

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

In brief sampling of social media, almost all of critical views and memes appear to be from liberal wing and conservatives seem to be mostly silent or may have been banned.


Texas mayor resigns after telling residents desperate for power and heat "only the strong will survive"

February 18, 2021
A Texas mayor resigned after seemingly telling residents to fend for themselves in a Facebook post amid a deadly and record-breaking winter storm that left much of the state without power Tuesday.

As then-mayor of Colorado City, Tim Boyd wrote an insensitive message for people desperate for heat, water and power, saying "only the strong will survive and the weak will [perish.]"

"No one owes you [or] your family anything; nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this!" he said. "Sink or swim it's your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I'm sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout."

Mayor of Colorado City, Texas RESIGNS after posting this controversial Facebook post. pic.twitter.com/EDGaiDkmDR
— ET Breaking News (@breaking_et) February 17, 2021

​

Boyd told people without water to "think outside the box to survive" and called people waiting in the cold because they have no power "lazy" – even as authorities were telling people to stay home to avoid icy roads.

"Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout!!" he said, before finishing off his message in capital letters,"DONT [be] PART OF PROBLEM, BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION!!"

The post was deleted, but circulated widely on social media. Boyd received intense backlash for his remarks and later announced he quit his office in another Facebook message.
cbsnews.com/news/tim-boyd-texas-mayor-colorado-city-resigns-power-outages/




Many people already forgot that he had advocated 'boots on the ground' US military intervention in Syria during Obama years, so this could be a distant past memory down the raod too. Unless such meme became part of Dems attack ads come election time.

Kudos to the mayor! Cruz should have not apologized and should not have returned.

 

[Cleaner44]

Are we supposed to believe Texas voters care about Cruz taking a vacation instead of sitting in a cold dark house?

 

[Dr.3D]

Who elected him to be a leader?

I thought people were elected to be representatives.

 

[Working Poor]

what abut when Nancy and the dem reps went on a liquor junket?

 

[Anti Globalist]

what abut when Nancy and the dem reps went on a liquor junket?

Democrats are exempted from that kind of behavior.

 

[sparebulb]

No I'm pretty sure his political career will be just fine.

I agree.

'Murica loves a neocon.

Especially when they see how he comes together in a bipartisan way to support military action against fill in blank.

 

[dannno]

Nobody's questioning his ability to go to Cancun. It's his clearly poor leadership skills and utter lack of a sense of responsibility to represent and act in the best interest of his constituents that are the issue.


The fact that he's clearly lying through his teeth about absolutely everything involved certainly doesn't help either

Uhhh, ya, like the media isn't lying about it as well??

They are complaining that he left his poodley dog "stranded" in his freezing cold house while he went to Cancun..

Turns out his butler or whatever the fuck was there taking care of it.

Which is better - because if they were all there, they would all be using the blankets and might not have enough.

By taking off, this allows the butler or whatever and the dog to have all the comforters in the house in case it gets really cold.