Just Walk Up To Someone And Say "Rafael Cruz" And They Will Throw Up On You

By Baxter

The Biden family began three days of agonizing ceremony today as Beau Biden lay in honor at the state capitol in Wilmington. We cats checked in on some of the C-SPAN coverage and were amazed anew at the dignity and utter class of Joe, Jill, their kids and grandkids as they hugged and shook hands with the hundreds of people who came through the receiving line.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, civility-wise, there's Rafael Cruz — who, while piously proclaiming sympathy for the Bidens when a reporter's microphone gets stuck in his face, still tells jokes about the Vice President at Republican events. This week, in fact.

Confronted by the reporter about it, Cruz simply turned and walked away. (Later, his staff issued a lame apology.)

You know what would have happened if a Democratic Presidential candidate had told a joke about the previous occupant of the Vice Presidency, had that previous occupant suffered a similar loss?

Here's what:

• The Second Amendment nuts would be screaming for someone to get a gun and execute the offending Democrat on the spot.
• FOX "News" would be playing video clips — of either the joke or the exchange with the reporter — endlessly for a week, bringing on scores upon scores upon scores of pundits to explain how incredibly offensive and inappropriate and typical of nasty liberals the whole incident was.

(Of course, we can't imagine Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley, Lincoln Chafee or Bernie Sanders doing such a thing, but never mind.)

So, what are we to do about Rafael Cruz? Not much, we think. We expect that he'll soon be pushed from the very crowded 2016 Republican clown car — preferably while it's going at about 80 miles an hour.

How do we know? Well, check out some of the comments that people posted at the nonpolitical site known as YouTube. We rest our case. And we PURR.

"What a dick."
"What a stand-up guy."
"What a vile and truly evil to the core, walking flesh sack."
"What a disgusting and shameless man."
"He’s a dick. Plain and simple."
"How did this creep get elected to anything???"
"What a disgusting excuse for a human being. What a sh*t stain."
"One word: VILE."
"This idiot has dug his own grave."
"Too bad he couldn’t be a human being 14 seconds and apologize."
"Adios, dipsh*t."