{"id":30087,"date":"2015-11-07T15:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T23:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30087"},"modified":"2015-11-07T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:07:37","slug":"ted-cruz-super-pac-brags-that-he-makes-things-happen-like-1000-mass-murders-since-sandy-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30087","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Super PAC Brags That He &#8216;Makes Things Happen,&#8217; Like 1,000 Mass Murders Since Sandy Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz sure loves him some guns. His affection for assault weapons is so fierce that he brags about using them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29346\" target=\"_blank\">to cook bacon<\/a>. He portrays himself as a defender of the Constitution whose Second Amendment he distorts by ignoring the <em>&#8220;well regulated militia&#8221;<\/em> clause.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/cruz-sandy-hook.jpg\" alt=\"Ted Cruz Sandy Hook\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30088\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1205055986175861\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-btn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now a Super PAC working on his behalf has produced an ad (video below) aimed at taking down fellow Republican Marco Rubio. In the course of the attack on Rubio it veers to the right to direct some fire at President Obama. Unfortunately, it misses the target and results in severe harm to some truly innocent bystanders. The ad says that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ted Cruz makes things happen. After Sandy Hook, Ted Cruz stopped Obama&#8217;s push for new gun control laws.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, Cruz was one of the leading opponents of measures to protect children and others from the horrific tragedy that befell the residents of Newtown, Connecticut. The fact that twenty children can be slaughtered by gunfire from a military-style assault weapon in their elementary school classroom, and nothing is done about it, is due in part to the determination and indifference of Ted Cruz to <em>&#8220;make things happen,&#8221;<\/em> or more precisely, to make things NOT happen, because that&#8217;s the only skill he&#8217;s demonstrated in his single senate term.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you, Sen. Cruz, for ensuring that future citizens will be just as vulnerable as those kids. Thank you for standing up for the gun manufacturing lobbyists at the NRA instead of the victims and their families. You&#8217;ll be glad to know that your efforts have already resulted in nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/a\/mass-shootings-sandy-hook\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 more mass shootings<\/a> in the United States just since the December 2012 massacre in Newtown. The shooters in those incidents killed at least 1,251 people and wounded 3,602 more. You must be so proud. Your senate colleague, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/11\/chris-murphy-reacts-ted-cruz-super-pac-ad-sandy-hook-215612\" target=\"_blank\">responded to the ad<\/a> with an impassioned righteousness.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Showing off how callous he was in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting may win him some right-wing votes that get swept up from Donald Trump or Ben Carson, but it disqualifies him in a general election.&#8221; [&#8230; Cruz is&#8230;] &#8220;the one senator who took on the parents of Sandy Hook in the wake of the most horrific mass shooting in our lifetime.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Ted Cruz makes things happen,&#8221;<\/em> should become the new slogan of his campaign. And so long as voters know that the things that he makes happen are threats to the welfare of all Americans, the nation will renounce his dangerous agenda. What&#8217;s more, his policies that include the repeal of ObamaCare, the destruction of Social Security, tax cuts for the wealthy, the crippling of the middle-class, never-ending war, and demolishing the wall between church and state, will hurt every other American. And that agenda is shared by all of his Republican pals running for the presidency. Yes, Republicans make things happen. Very, very bad things.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/feQuWvXq9iE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz sure loves him some guns. His affection for assault weapons is so fierce that he brags about using them to cook bacon. He portrays himself as a defender of the Constitution whose Second Amendment he distorts by ignoring the &#8220;well regulated militia&#8221; clause. Now a Super PAC working on his behalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Ted Cruz Makes Things Happen: Like 1,000 Mass Murders Across America","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,16],"tags":[1107,1019,1069],"class_list":["post-30087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-wankery","tag-guns","tag-nra","tag-ted-cruz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/cruz-sandy-hook.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-7Ph","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30811,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30811","url_meta":{"origin":30087,"position":0},"title":"Playing La Raza Card: RNC Chair Brags That 2 of Top 3 In Iowa Are Hispanic","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/2\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Following the 2012 loss by Mitt Romney, the Republican National Committee conducted what they called an \"autopsy\" to establish what went so terribly wrong with a campaign that they thought they would win in a walk. 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