texas senator ted cruz (r) isn<u+2019>t about to let the facts get in the way of his narrative, so instead of admitting that his party<u+2019>s rhetorical tantrums about hoax videos may have contributed to robert louis dear<u+2019>s decision to shoot up a planned parenthood clinic on friday, he blamed it on what conservatives would consider a most loathsome manticore: a <u+201c>transgendered leftist activist.<u+201d>









on sunday, cruz said that any attempt to link dear to conservatives<u+2019> mission to curtail a woman<u+2019>s right to choose is merely <u+201c>vicious rhetoric on the left blaming those who are pro-life.<u+201d> he claimed that <u+201c>the media promptly wants to blame [dear] on the pro-life movement, when at this point there<u+2019>s very little evidence to indicate that.<u+201d> cruz, you see, is very, very concerned about people who make commonsense accusations based on reports that dear was mumbling about <u+201c>baby parts<u+201d> when he was arrested. repeating the republican talking points about planned parenthood constitutes, to his mind, <u+201c>very little evidence.<u+201d>









solid evidence, for cruz, comes from the person who has been deemed the stupidest man on the internet, who discovered that dear was listed as <u+201c>female<u+201d> on a voter registration form, meaning he is obviously, as cruz identified him, a <u+201c>transgendered leftist activist.<u+201d>









cruz made that statement while attempting to take the high road, but he<u+2019>s unfamiliar with such heights and it showed. <u+201c>it<u+2019>s also been reported that he was registered as an independent and a woman and transgendered leftist activist, if that<u+2019>s what he is,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>i don<u+2019>t think it<u+2019>s fair to blame on the rhetoric on the left. this is a murderer.<u+201d> apparently, he believed people would walk away from his statement thinking, <u+201c>it<u+2019>s big of cruz not to blame leftist rhetoric for a man shooting up a planned parenthood clinic<u+201d> <u+2014> which says quite a bit about how intelligent he considers his audience.









moreover, given that the only evidence cruz has that dear was transgender is a single voter registration form in which he identifies both as <u+201c>female<u+201d> and <u+201c>uaf,<u+201d> which stands for <u+201c>unaffiliated,<u+201d> it stands to reason that he believes it impossible for a transgender person to be affiliated with the conservative movement in general or the republican party in particular. while that may be true, it<u+2019>s also telling about who he assumes can find a home in the conservative coalition. as thinkprogress<u+2019> zack ford reported, no one who knew him believed he identified as a woman, and his ex-wife claimed that <u+201c>he believed wholeheartedly in the bible,<u+201d> but that doesn<u+2019>t constitute the kind of evidence a professional prevaricator like cruz would consider worthy of mention. he should be commended, though, for his restraint in not arguing that dear was simply a bank robber who took shelter in the planned parenthood clinic, another conservative canard that made the rounds this weekend.
ted cruz is a professional liar: the planned parenthood shooting was the work of a <u+201c>transgendered leftist activist<u+201d>
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