I’m just fucking with you — these dunderheads are as batshit crazy as ever.
The gist of Cruz’s pitch was a “darkest before the dawn” argument—that the horror of Barack Obama would give rise to a second coming. “These are dark days, but we’ve seen dark days before,” he said. “It took Jimmy Carter to get us Ronald Reagan.”
No, it took the Iranian revolution (and the hostage crisis) to get us Ronald Reagan.
Probably the most effective anti-American thing the Iranians ever did.
Jimmy Carter is no Barack Obama.