It says much about the failure of the Republican Party, about its cynical pandering to the most backward sector of American society, that Ted Cruz will formally announce today his candidacy for the presidency at — get ready — Liberty University.
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Yes … Liberty University, founded by Jerry Falwell, who thought the Southern Baptists were a pack of simpering liberals until the serial indecencies of the Fundamentalist Takeover of that now-ridiculous denomination in the 1980s. The same Jerry Falwell about whom Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee just over 50-years ago, once said, “Every good Christian should line up and kick Jerry Falwell’s ass.”
Liberty University, home to something called the Center for Creation Studies, where uneducated yahoos “research, promote, and communicate a robust young-Earth creationist view of Earth history.” Where, in short, educated people who have done the hard work of actually understanding the science are … unwelcome.
That’s where Ted Cruz is going today, hat-in-hand — to embarrassing morons. It’s just too sad.
Sadder still is that Ted Cruz is not a fringe candidate that the rest of the world is laughing at.