As the 2016 Presidential campaign gets into high gear so too has Cruz's lies. According to Polifact, Cruz lied about Ben Carson leaving the race just days before the Iowa caucus; that Obamacare is the biggest job-killer in the U.S.; that gun control proponents want to confiscate all guns; that Obama hasn't bombed ISIL's oil fields because he's worried about global warming; that most violent criminals are Democrats; that under Obama the median wage for women fell; that Obama's Iranian nuclear deal lets Iranians self-inspect, and more.
Indeed, Senator Cruz's mountain of lies and the obvious ease with which lying comes to him has alarmed the Huffington Post which stated last September: "Can any other politician lie with the gall, the unflappability, and the effortlessness of Senator Ted Cruz?"
The thing is that where Trump needs and feeds off the legions of Trumpites to sing his praises and adore him, Cruz, on the other hand, is impervious to what others think of him or their opinions. The proof of this is the fact that there is near unanimous bipartisan loathing for Cruz in the US Senate and he's not snagged one endorsement from his colleagues in the United State Senate or support for his presidential bid.
So who's better for the GOP (NOT America) Trump or Cruz?
Well, it depends on how you look at this. Definitely Cruz is the more dangerous of the two; not that Trump is a sheep- far from it. But for all Trump's jingoistic, triumphalist chest-thumping behavior I believe that there are times when sane people can negotiate with him, meaning that he's open to some form of compromise.
Cruz, on the other far side of the spectrum, is a rigid, unbending politician who is just as petty as Donald Trump but who masks that character flaw underneath his polished rhetoric. His views are to the very RIGHT of the Republican Right-Wing. He wants to go back to the good old days when women were viewed simply as baby factories and domestic workers. He would not separate the church from the state, interweaving any kind of religious Christian orthodoxy in all walks of life.
Such men are dangerous.
So in the final analysis we can conclude that Donald Trump gives articulation to and epitomizes the worst and most odious impulses of the Republican Party that have been long hidden and concealed. His ideas and philosophy, if that's what is can be called, is nativist, bigoted, racist and punitive, egged on and buttressed by mainly uneducated angry white men who feel that their sense of entitlement have been infringed by the "others" in American society.
Cruz is a rigid, saber-rattling, warmonger who would thrust his toxic brew of great power belligerence on any nation, people or organization that gets his goat. He's uncompromising and intolerant and given to "dressing up the truth" to suit his own narrow agenda.
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