Welp, here we go
So, first hat in the ring, and it’s a sombrero. Bad-dum-tssss.
I like Ted Cruz. I really do. I think. From what I know. But I just cannot deal with his face. It just ain’t right.
And if you think that’s incredibly shallow and foolish of me, just think how not shallow and foolish I am compared to huge swathes of America.
Facial hair. It’s the only answer.
Yeah, I know I’ve posted this before. I realized that. What I didn’t realize was that I’d used the exact same starting photo. This isn’t a repost. I’ve done the same stupid Photoshop twice.
Posted: March 23rd, 2015 under personal, politics.
Comments: 28
Comments
Comment from CrabbyOldBat
Time: March 23, 2015, 10:10 pm
SWeasel’s Greatest Hits, track one.
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Comment from gromulin
Time: March 23, 2015, 10:17 pm
I know what you mean. His face looks like one of those p-shop mash-ups you see on Ace’s sidebar. Can’t put my finger on why.
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Comment from RealMc
Time: March 23, 2015, 10:29 pm
Add a top hat ;o)
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Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: March 23, 2015, 10:42 pm
#RepealThe19th
#PresidentsWithBeards
#YesAllBeards
#FDPObama
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Comment from Admiral Painter
Time: March 23, 2015, 11:14 pm
This business is going to get out of control, and we will be lucky to live through it.
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Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: March 23, 2015, 11:50 pm
i got nothin
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Comment from mojo
Time: March 23, 2015, 11:52 pm
No. No beard. Are you insane?
Karl Marx had a beard. Fidel had a beard. ee cummings had a beard.
No. Beards. It’s like a law or something.
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Comment from OldFert
Time: March 24, 2015, 12:00 am
Mojo — Yes, beards have bad connotations. As George Carlin said: “Rasputin had a beard. Castro has a beard. Gabby Hayes has whiskers.”
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Comment from Paula Douglas
Time: March 24, 2015, 1:04 am
Facial hair is evil. Next question.
While I’d hate to lose Cruz as my senator, it would be worth it to get someone with principles into the White House. I wonder what that would be like?
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Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: March 24, 2015, 1:10 am
If he’s going to beard, he needs some more lessons.
BTW, Stoaty, I think I won the Dead pool. I swear it was just good old fashioned sniping. We only get news from the PRC 12 hours before all the other Westerners.
I have to say this one seemed to go on forever.
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Comment from Nina
Time: March 24, 2015, 4:21 am
I’m laughing out loud about the sombrero, the beard, and the duplicated effort.
Very loud. 😜
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Comment from catnip
Time: March 24, 2015, 4:48 am
I think the beard and moustache improve his appearance considerably. However, both need to be more trim. They do give him the look of a South American dictator. I like him, and only hope he fully understands what he’s getting into.
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Comment from J.S.Bridges
Time: March 24, 2015, 7:45 am
Last-year’s end result was measurably better, in a number of ways – back then, you made him rawther distingue, in a manner of speakin’…
This year’s effort – well – frankly, he kinda comes off like Fee-del’s younger-an’-sorta-less-trustworthy cousin, IYKWIMAITYD – like: “Ain’t no seegar nor purty wimmins safe ‘roun’ heah, y’all!”
Full-face or even three-quarters like that, he tends to have a slightly…unfortunate…shape to his chin versus his cheeks. Properly-shapely facial hair helps quite a bit. Jus’ sayin’…
All of which is pretty superficial, in the end – this is the guy we really, really need (or someone very much like ‘im)…which is why, I really wish him well, but am much afraid we will not see him as POTUS – at least, not in 2016.
Hope I’m wrong on that last, there.
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Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: March 24, 2015, 4:27 pm
I think that beard is too extensive, a closely trimmed one would work, but he would be MUCH better off with a beard, I agree.
Fun fact: Hillary Clinton is old enough to be Ted Cruz’ grandmother.
Other fun fact: Every single president who was elected from the Senate died in office… except for President Obama, who just has been horrible in the job.
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Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: March 24, 2015, 4:49 pm
Presidents had beards back in the 19th Century: Lincoln and Grant come to mind. In fact Cruz looks a little Grant-ish. Garfield might have been the last (sez I, without looking it up); I’m pretty sure everybody since McKinley, and maybe him too, has been clean-shaven or had no more than a mustache.
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Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: March 24, 2015, 4:49 pm
Other fun fact: Every single president who was elected from the Senate died in office
Sadly, not all historic firsts are good historic firsts.
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Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: March 24, 2015, 4:53 pm
I’m pretty sure everybody since McKinley, and maybe him too, has been clean-shaven or had no more than a mustache.
Taft was the last one with any facial hair.
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Comment from Wolfus Aurelius
Time: March 24, 2015, 4:56 pm
Okay, I did look it up: http://koti.kapsi.fi/~jflurrie/Cards/040313_scans/uspres.png Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Harrison were beardoes; Arthur, Cleveland (x 2), Teddy R., and Taft had mustaches.
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Comment from mojo
Time: March 24, 2015, 6:04 pm
Hello? Evil Spock?
No beard. Sideburns, maybe, or a dignified moustache. I’d go that far.
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Comment from Brother Cavil
Time: March 24, 2015, 6:29 pm
I thought about it, and I realized what the issue with his face is.
He has trollface.
He has. An honest. To God. Trollface.
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Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 24, 2015, 8:06 pm
Nice attempted sneak, Bob, but you’d chosen Ginger Baker earlier in the thread. First pick sticks.
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Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: March 24, 2015, 11:16 pm
Ginger Baker kind of deserves to die but he’s clinging in there. Brilliant, amazing musician and talent but… horrible person. Just horrible.
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Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: March 25, 2015, 4:12 am
I thought I gave up on Ginger! This really is a long deadpool!
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Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: March 25, 2015, 4:24 am
Well now, I did pick Ginger on day one! Black chickens and conceited drummers, I’m really getting dotty!
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Comment from mojo
Time: March 25, 2015, 4:59 am
And Levon died poor. There ain’t no justice.
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Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: March 25, 2015, 6:33 am
Until John Frémont in 1856, no presidential candidate had a beard. From Frémont through Benjamin Harrison, every Republican candidate had a beard, but no Democrat ever did (except Winfield Hancock).
Lincoln is a little ambiguous, as he only grew his beard after being advised to do so by 11-year-old Grace Bedell in October 1860; it’s not clear when he stopped shaving his chin. He definitely had the beard by February 1861, when he stopped in to visit Miss Bedell on his way to Washington.
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Comment from tibby
Time: March 26, 2015, 2:41 pm
He looks like one of Santas elves.
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Comment from AltBBrown
Time: March 26, 2015, 8:49 pm
I’d hate to see ya lose Ted, Paula, but Keeeeriiiist we need someone with principles and a lick o’ common sense with a tad of logic. This last election meant absolutely nothing to the maroons in congress. Nothing.
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