GOP presidential hopeful, Ted Cruz, posted a
charming Cruz family Christmas video commercial
last week featuring his lovely wife and two young daughters, aged five and
seven, gathered together on the living room sofa next to the Christmas tree to
hear Daddy read his partisan politicalized versions of classic Christmas
stories.
“T'was the night before the shutdown and
all through the house, not a bill was stirring, not even to fund a mouse,”
he read. Next it was: “How Obamacare Stole Christmas,” followed by “Rudolph
the Underemployed Reindeer,” and “Frosty, the Speaker of the House.” “Look!
The Speaker is melting before Congress,” read Daddy.
Then it was the Lois Lerner masterpiece: “Auditing
St. Nick.” “I will audit him here and there. I will audit him anywhere,” he
read, followed by “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails,” “I know just what I will
do, she said with a snicker; I’ll use my own server, and no one will be the
wiser,” the little 7-year-old Cruz daughter read dramatically about the
Grinch.
Finally, they held up a book entitled: “The
Senator Who Saved Christmas,” featuring Ted Cruz himself declaring that he
approved of this message. The video was
obviously scripted, the message entirely political, and Cruz’s little daughters
were plainly being used as political props, totally oblivious as to what was really
going on.
It was nauseating.
So why should anyone be surprised that The Washington
Post published this cartoon depicting Senator Cruz dressed in a Santa suit
turning the crank of an organ grinder attached to two little trained monkeys on
leashes.
The very next day, poor Senator Cruz was pitifully whining about
how his family should be totally off limits in such matters. Washington Post
editor, Fred Hiatt agreed, and yanked the cartoon from the website, saying: “It’s
generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it.
I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. I understand why Ann
thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not
agree.”
Meanwhile, Senator Cruz cynically decided to
capitalize on the controversy by sending a campaign fundraising email to
supporters. It included the offending cartoon along with the subject line: "They
attacked my children… I'm sickened...I knew I'd be facing attacks from day one
of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this… "This shows you
EXACTLY how desperate the liberal media is to attack and destroy me (and my
family) by any means necessary… This is an emergency -- all hands on deck.
Click here to make an
Later, he posted on his Twitter site his own version
of the offending cartoon depicting Hillary Clinton walking two dogs marked with
the logos for The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In short, Cruz made the most out of the political Christmas
gift he received and proved in the process that he doesn’t give a damn about
his little daughters being injected into his political campaign. After all, it
was Cruz himself who deliberately injected them unwittingly into the fray.
I call that a perfect example of political HypoCruzy.
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