Ted Cruz's Dad Seems Nice

Hey, remember Ted Cruz's Jerk Baby? She was fun! We dug her! Well, move over, Jerk Baby, you are now officially the Chillest Member of Ted Cruz's Family Of Funtimes Friends. Here is Ted Cruz's dad, via the Des Moines Register, blah blah blahing about Fidel Castro and stuff, and how Barack Obama is Castro times Stalin plus Dorothy Day probably. But then he gets unboring and starts a-whoopin' and a-frothin' like he is Rick Santorum's dad instead of the Canadian Anchor Babby's!

Recent movement in some states and by the Supreme Court advancing gay rights and allowing same-sex marriage is part of a plot to undermine the traditional family structure and eliminate religion, clearing the way for a socialist state in which government is worshipped as a god, he said.

“Socialism requires that government becomes your god,” he said. “That’s why they have to destroy the concept of God. They have to destroy all loyalties except loyalty to government. That’s what’s behind homosexual marriage.”

You guys, we should probably defund the government, just to be safe.

President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act, he added, will kill the older Americans.

“Let me tell you, our lives are under attack. …” he said. “Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.”

Well, that is just Science Fact. The Cuban who fled Cuba and loves to talk about Cuba and how he fled it, probably because Castro only let him keep two houses (IMPORTANT JOURNALISM DISCLAIMER: WE DO NOT ACTUALLY KNOW HOW MANY HOUSES HE OWNED) and is TOTALLY NOT CRAZY YOU GUYS, wants to make sure that the US never makes the same mistake of ensuring health care for its citizens, which all the popes say is a basic human right but fuck that because Marxist Leninism or something something something death panels. Because ... well, because is why.

(PRO-TIP: That Tom Gjelten book linked above, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba, is sexcellent, and Gjelten is only mildly blinded by his admiration for the founding fathers of the Bacardi firm, so that its CEO Pepin Bosch's funding Jorge Mas Canosa's terror plots against Cuba is sort of maybe soft-pedaled a bit or rather a lot really, but other than that, really terrific!)

Anyway, gayness is tyranny and so is not dying of tuberculosis in the streets, the end.

[ DesMoinesRegister, via TPM ]