{"id":36316,"date":"2022-06-20T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36316"},"modified":"2022-06-20T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T17:05:33","slug":"cruzing-the-rino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/20\/cruzing-the-rino\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruzing The RINO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lefty Coaster on <em><strong>Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2022\/6\/19\/2105073\/-At-the-Texas-Republican-Convention-Ted-Cruz-is-confronted-for-being-insufficiently-Radical?pm_source=story_sidebar&amp;pm_medium=web&amp;pm_campaign=recommended\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put together<\/a> a collection of tweets from the <em><strong>Texas GOP<\/strong><\/em> Convention that documents, among other issues, that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the latest victim of the frantic rightward slide of the <strong><em>GOP<\/em><\/strong>, at least in Texas. Here&#8217;s one tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ted Cruz gets heckled and harassed by a right winger at TX State GOP Convention, who calls him a coward and a globalist, asks him how he can like Trump after he called his wife ugly, then finished with Cancun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L1hEvN8nV5\">pic.twitter.com\/L1hEvN8nV5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1538601965009125378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>My long time readers will be unsurprised that Cruz is no longer a favorite of the far right of the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em>, but instead probably could not get nominated for the Presidency because he&#8217;s too &#8230; liberal.<\/p>\n<p>But the other element of interest is the use of <em>globalist<\/em> as an epithet. While there&#8217;s certainly some legitimate concerns for unskilled and semi-skilled labor in a global market, and these should be addressed, it&#8217;s a bit ironic in a state that, because of its oil industry, has become as rich as any due to the <em>global economy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Isolationism connotes control, because one cannot control what&#8217;s happening on the other side of the world, and this increasingly jibes with the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em>, from its stance on abortion to the attempts of the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> to punish those companies that don&#8217;t toe the Party line, to even their stance on guns &#8211; so long as they see guns as effective personal protection.<\/p>\n<p>Which is mighty odd for a Party that is otherwise supposedly based on faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lefty Coaster on Daily Kos has put together a collection of tweets from the Texas GOP Convention that documents, among other issues, that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the latest victim of the frantic rightward slide of the GOP, at least in Texas. Here&#8217;s one tweet: Ted Cruz gets heckled \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/20\/cruzing-the-rino\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36317,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316\/revisions\/36317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}