Ted Cruz's Former Speechwriter Sounds Alarm About How Radicalized He Has Become

A former speechwriter for Ted Cruz has issued a dire warning to Americans about how radicalized her former boss has become. Writing for The Bulwark, Amanda Carpenter says that her former boss has gone from being a Constitutional lawyer with sound principles, to a man willing to go to the extremes in order to appeal to a certain demographic. This may be true, but Cruz has always been a sort of political chameleon, wanting to be accepted and liked and willing to do anything to make that happen. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Following Ted Cruz's recent humiliation at the hands of Fox news host Tucker Carlson, his former speech writer, a woman by the name of, by the name of Amanda Carpenter, took to the bull work to write an article about his radicalization. And that to me was a very tough moment coming from somebody again, who worked with Ted Cruz for quite some time, she was his speech writer. And she's telling us in this article that she has written that this man is virtually unrecognizable today. She points out that he's Harvard and Yale educated. So he is not a moron. Yeah, I, I, I've never accused Ted Cruz of being stupid. Just somebody that I absolutely disagree with. But she says this somewhere along the line, this guy that went to Harvard and who went to Yale, became overly radicalized. And it all happened. Of course, as she points out when Donald Trump won the presidency, it was at that point when Ted Cruz started to shift a little bit and then over the years, and again, I've pointed this out as well.

You've seen crews make this turn to where he says things that he knows are not true. He's pandering to a completely different audience than the one he used to pander to. And if you wanna talk, uh, understand what I'm talking about here, go back. I think it was maybe 2017, the summer of 2017, Ted Cruz did a town hall event with Bernie Sanders where the two of them were up against each other, talking about universal healthcare among a couple other things. But the big focus was healthcare, Ted Cruz, even though he lied us face off, did in fact hold his own against Bernie Sanders. And occasionally he brought up some not horrible points and people walked away thinking, you know what? Ted Cruz is an intelligent guy. Look at him up there against Bernie Sanders doing his thing. If you haven't watched that video, by the way, I do encourage everybody to look at it because that is a good indication of what Ted Cruz used to be. He was still horrible. Don't get me wrong. Always been horrible, but he wasn't nuts.

But where I differ from Amanda Carpenter and she worked with him, I did not. So she clearly knows him better than I do, but I don't think Ted Cruz has been radicalized. I think Ted Cruz is who he has always been. And that is a political chameleon. Ted Cruz is going to say whatever he thinks he needs to say in order to get people, to like him in order to get people, to support him. If he has to be the statesmanlike guy that can hold his own and gets burned, Sanders, he'll do that. And he's capable of doing that. If he has to be the crazy guy that says we're gonna overturn the election and I'm not certifying certain states, he'll do that too, because that is what Ted Cruz has always

Done because Ted Cruz has always struggled to be liked and accepted. And this goes all the way back to when he actually worked as a lawyer for George w Bush's, uh, 2000 election team actually helped get the Supreme court to stop the counting in Florida that gave Bush the election. Cruz was one of the only people from that team that didn't get a job in the administration because nobody liked him. They all thought he was kind of weird, you know, just kind of this weirdo little guy, but it just shows that Ted Cruz had always been trying to mold his personality into what he thought everybody else wanted to see. And yes, oftentimes that comes across as creepy and insincere. But I do believe that Ted Cruz is putting on an act. I don't believe that he has become fully radicalized. If it benefited him politically, he would go right back to that person.

He was five years ago today. We, without ever looking back and of course pretending that the last four years never happened, whatever he needs to say, whatever he needs to do to further his own political interest, to further his own career, he's gonna do it because he's a chameleon. He's the kind of guy that doesn't believe anything he actually says, but he says it to win support. He knows that people don't like him for who he is. So he is constantly changing who he is to try to bring more people in. That's not radicalization. That's just flat out pathetic.