Cruzing Towards Lunacy At the Tea party, Ted Cruz Style

RAPHAEL CRUZ, THE FATHER OF ULTRA CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN Texas Senator Ted Cruz, traded one drug addiction for another; alcohol for evangelical Christianity. Hell hath no fury like a zealous born again convert. And the apple never falls far from the tree, the chip off the old block. Like father, like son. How the spawn apes its sire, minus the alcohol, plus the presidential aspirations. Teddy, you see, is running for president of either America, or the tea party. Both Cruzes interpret the United States constitution and the holy Bible literally. Both documents come straight from Almighty God. Never mind James Madison, Moses, doctor Luke, and John of Patmos. Both documents, say the Cruzes, are conjoined, inseparable, God-written. Never mind that Madison, a living human being who actually wrote the constitution, advocated a wall between church and state, with the first amendment establishment clause. For the men de la Cruz, that wall is invisible. Since the constitution makes no mention of Obamacare and the Internal revenue Service, both should be abolished, say the Cruzes. A true constitutional literalist, is Ted the scion. And a true economic "your on your own" Christian, expousing the divinity of a man who told us to render unto Caesar and give unto the poor. Presumably Cruz supports the right to carry any and all weapons, no matter how powerful, and to retain appendages attached to the upper torso. Ted Cruz explicitly wishes to give newly unemployed former I.R.S. employees a new job; guarding the Mexican border, fantastically enough. A legion of accountants, paralegals, and secretaries, patrolling and defending America's southern border against impoverished unemployed laborers, armed with M16s and certificates of completion of rapid fire weapons training. Biblical literalist to the end, Cruz presumably believes the world to be flat and immobile, its four corners standing atop pillars, and that when Christ returns, he shall be brandishing a sword, and the stars shall fall from the heavens like the shiny glass trinkets they surely must be, and will strike the Earth, and shatter. How well matched are ultra conservative politics and a flat earth! Thomas Jefferson said that the Book of revelation is the ravings of a lunatic but neither he nor Madison, both non Christians, ever said that the nature's God from whom all natural inalienable rights derive is the Christian god. The men of Cruz and their comrads in spirit and arms added that part, all by themselves. Turn the other cheek, but keep your semi-automatic handy, just in case christ wants you to make use of it. And just think - Cruz the younger is but the very tip of the tea party, and will surely soon be joined in the Republican presidential sweepstakes by fellow young buck lunatics such as Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, and, who knows, Sarah Palin redux? Better hang on tight to your sanity, for its going to be a wild ride, albeit a most entertaining and humorous one.