ICYMI: Cruz’s most astonishing quirk
by digby
Why would he allow anyone to know this? He’s supposed to be a Texas Republican. They go out to the back forty and kill something when they feel a little stressed. (Or at least clear a little brush.)That is if they feel stress at all, which no real man does.
Ted Cruz seems to appreciate at least one New York value.
For at least the second time in recent days, the Texas senator’s wife, Heidi, has described his method of relieving tension during anxious campaign moments: show tunes.
“He’ll call me and just sing me a Broadway tune,” Mrs. Cruz told a crowd here on Tuesday.
It can happen without warning, “right before one of these debates” or “in a stressful moment in a state,” she said.
It is usually well received — “he never ceases to defuse a stressful moment with a moment of levity,” Mrs. Cruz said — but not always.
“I’m thinking, ‘I’m on a finance call right now,’ ” Mrs. Cruz recalled. “Do you really need to be doing this?”
On Tuesday, Mrs. Cruz detailed neither the quality of her husband’s performances nor his favored song choices.
A spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a message seeking Mr. Cruz’s theatrical preferences.
I think Mrs Cruz has gone off the reservations with that one. First of all, it makes him sound like one of those florists who is happy to provide flower arrangements for a gay wedding, if you know what I mean. The second is that she sounds like quite the uppity little lady with her “I’m on a finance call right now” as if her fancy career is important or something.
Cruz is a harcore conservative down to his bones. I even believe that he’s sincerely evangelical. But perhaps one of the things that people find off-putting about him is that he’s a total phony about his affiliation with southern, cultural conservatism. Obviously, he’s a city boy with city boy tastes and habits. If he were as crude and disgusting as Trump maybe he could get away with it. But it just doesn’t track for a Texas evangelical conservative to sing showtunes. It just doesn’t.
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