Ted Cruz Ping! If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 04/27/2015 12:31:51 PM PDT by VinL
It’s hard not to feel sympathy for Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, the gay businessmen who invited a dozen people to dine with Senator Ted Cruz, the presidential poser, at their New York home. Mr. Reisner and Mr. Weiderpass had evident good intentions. There is certainly a shortage in this country of sensible political communication.
It is, however, equally hard to understand what on earth they thought they were doing. There is not a Republican on the national scene who supports the right of Americans to marry whomever they choose. Very few of them truly believe in protecting the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans at all. And Mr. Cruz dwells on the far side of right-wing crazy on most issues, including this one.
Mr. Reisner later said that Mr. Cruz did not voice explicit opposition to same-sex marriage at the dinner, but rather said that the matter should be left to the states. What right-wing Republicans mean is that states should be allowed to ban same-sex marriage at will. When that fails, they should permit business owners to discriminate against same-sex couples because they don’t approve of them.
Mr. Cruz later said that he told the dinner that he has strong religious objections to same-sex marriage, and Mr. Reisner has been publicly apologizing for showing “poor judgment.”
Writing on Facebook after he and Mr. Weiderpass had been heavily criticized — and targeted by boycott calls and a threatened protest at the hotel the two men jointly own — Mr. Reisner said: (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Ted Cruz Ping! Ted believes that one man sticking his **** up another man’s *** does not constitute a marriage. Truth is painful to the terminally self-deluded.
The truth is the only thing that can set men free from perversion. Praise God for Ted Cruz, however in this deluded, self absorbed generation that lives in a perpetual state of cognitive dissonance, I am certain he will not be elected... ;-(
Cruz was set up by these guys and the NYT. Expect more of this through the election.
This has helped, not hurt Cruz.
State's right for gay marriage = "You're own your own, don't expect me to help."
Interesting hypothesis, can you elaborate?
Agreed 100%.
Well Ted, I guess the venerable NY Times is telling you to get back in the conservative closet where you belong!
This embarrassingly juvenile writing wouldn’t make a fifth-grade school paper. NYSlimes= trashcan liner.
I think it was a set-up, poorly conceived and poorly executed, designed to make Cruz look like a misogynistic fool.
First, I don’t believe these two gentlemen had “no idea” about Cruz’s beliefs before hosting him.
Now they are able to run around saying “If I had had any idea what a monster he was I would never...”
Second, I’m sure they expected Cruz to say something they could use against him. He didn’t.
Lastly, the NYT gets to write snooty editorials, like this.
It’s all about making Cruz look out of touch with “mainstream” voters. They don’t care how it plays with his base. It’s a long game for them, wearing down his image with the general electorate.
Cruz played it right and came out looking good.
I see, well you may be right. From what I’ve read, however, the meeting was set up by one of Sen. Cruz’s defense advisers, Kalman Sporn; he’s gay. And one of Cruz’s biggest supporters, Peter Thiel (sp?) is a billionaire tech guy, who’s also gay.
I doubt they were trying to hurt Sen. Cruz.- it wouldn’t be in their interests.
But, you’re right that when the Times got wind of it, the Times likely saw it as an opportunity to embarrass him.
There is no one that the intellectual poser Rosenthall knows who would give a Republican a drink of water.
Oh, my goodness!
I have just spent way-too-long reading the most RIDICULOUSLY IGNORANT Leftist comments at the bottom of the NYT article.
And these are the people who call everyone else “ignorant haters.”
Unbelievable.
GodSpeed TED CRUZ 2016!
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