Imagine me as president!
Okay, I hate politics. But I have a lot of schadenfreude towards politics and this gon' be gud. Ted Cruz makes GWB look like Barry fuckin' Goldwater and while he's no Herman Cain I'm goddamn stoked to see the first official Republican candidate for president be a Tea Party nutjob like Ted Cruz.
To the moon, Alice!
- He was born in Canada.
Cruz was born to a Cuban father, who escaped during the revolution, and an American mother, who was the first in her family to go to college and who became a computer programmer in the 1950s. Because of Cruz's Canadian birth, some have questioned whether he qualifies to be president. Being a "natural-born" citizen is one of the three eligibility requirements to be president laid out in the constitution.
Ryan Holiday made the point in Trust Me I'm Lying that the only reason anybody paid any attention to Herman Cain was because he declared early, thus giving them something to do... and by giving them something to do he became a serious candidate. He further argued that without the Internet, nobody gives a shit who's running for president 18 months out.
Cain turned out to be the smartest one of the bunch. I think his whole angle was to sell books, and he sold a lot of them. He never intended to be a contender. If I remember correctly he didn't even set up campaign offices in most early states. He was on a book tour and nothing more, making as much fun of our electoral system as he was himself. Genius.
it's the most wonderful tiiiiiime of the 4 year cycleeeeee