The Gelding of Ted Cruz: A New Milestone for Tucker Carlson

Do not expect any other mainstream Republicans to appear on Tucker Carlson's podcast any time soon.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas appeared for a long-form interview with journalist Tucker Carlson and was eviscerated in spectacular fashion as Carlson artfully exposed Cruz to be an intellectual lightweight, a painted-over neocon, and a denizen of the Washington D.C. swamp.

Although I am opposed to a direct attack on Iran, I agree that they must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and will support whatever decision President Trump makes. The educated debate that is being had in MAGA world over the proper course of action is healthy and shows that it is a movement with diversity of thought, unlike the hive mind of the Left and the Neoconservative Right.

Cruz demonstrated his immense immaturity and showed he was too much of an intellectual lightweight to participate constructively in the debate. During the interview, Carlson hammered Cruz regarding his vague demands for regime change in Iran. Cruz insisted that the Iranian people must be liberated from the Islamic theocracy but was cagey about the specifics. That is when Carlson pounced.

“How many people live in Iran, by the way?” Carlson asked.

“I don’t know the population at all,” Cruz replied.

“You don’t know the population you seek to topple?” Carlson interjected.

As he was flailing, Cruz hurled all of the familiar insults at Carlson: anti-Semite, isolationist, Russia apologist. These slurs only irked Carlson and caused him to turn up the heat, resulting in Cruz losing his composure.

“We are carrying out military strikes today,” Cruz boasted, before quickly backtracking and stating that Israel is conducting the strikes.

“You just said ‘we’ were,” Carlson said in response. “This is high stakes. You’re a senator. If you’re saying the United States government is at war with Iran right now, people are listening.”

"Are AIPAC's goals shaped by the goals of the Israeli government?" Carlson asked Cruz. "If you say no, I think we both know that's not true."

"Does Israel direct AIPAC? No, they're not lobbying on behalf of them. Do they care about them? Yes,” Cruz clapped back.

"What you're now describing, in a very defensive way, I will say, is foreign influence over our politics,” Carlson responded.

"By the way, Tucker, it's a very weird thing, the obsession with Israel,” Cruz said.

"I don't see a lawmaker's job as defending the interests of a foreign government," Carlson said, adding, "That's my position. That does not make me an anti-Semite, and shame on you for suggesting otherwise."

For any opponent of neocon influence within the Republican Party, the interview was pure serendipity. For those such as myself who have actually had to deal with Cruz’s nonsense in a professional setting, it was borderline orgasmic. After the National Enquirer exposed Ted Cruz for serial infidelities, he blamed me as the source of the story which was inaccurate. I did say on the record that the "reports would be problematic if true." By supplying this on the record quote, I guaranteed that the story would be published. The story was accurate and I have no regrets.

Cruz also blames me for accurately reporting that his father Rafael Cruz was indeed an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald. This is not only confirmed by photos included in the Warren commission report, but has also been confirmed by Judyth Vary Baker who was Oswald's mistress who told me "Angel" Cruz was among those in New Orleans distributing "Fair Trade Play for Cuba" literature that JFK researchers have traced to FBI operative Guy Bannister. This does not mean that Rafael Cruz is responsible in the assassination of JFK. Only that he was probably used by the deep state as a "patsy" to help set Oswald up for a murder he did not commit.

Cruz's public meltdown after these incidents was most enjoyable and were a window into his true character. Cruz has long posed as a tea party champion, a staunch conservative, an outsider fighting the establishment, but this has always been a cheap facade. Cruz is an establishment Ivy League attorney with deep Uniparty ties who faked a twang and put on a cowboy hat in a cynical attempt to bamboozle Republican voters.

Born Rafael Edward Cruz in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Cruz was blinded by ambition from the earliest stages of his life. He was the national debate club champion while studying at Princeton University. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he quickly became a GOP attorney, representing future GOP House Speaker John Boehner before joining the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a policy advisor. He was part of the Bush attorney team during the infamous 2000 presidential recounts that controversially put Bush into office to rip up the Constitution and start endless wars.

To understand Cruz's mindset, consider his life-long friendship with Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, the most disappointing and potentially compromised of George W. Bush's SCOTUS picks. Following his appointment, Cruz showed his poor judgment by staying that Roberts “is undoubtedly a principled conservative, as is the president who appointed him,” referring to George W. Bush, adding that “Judge Roberts’s approach will be that of his entire career: carefully, faithfully applying the Constitution and legal precedent.”

Cruz, ever the silver-tongued devil, was adept at changing with the times. He shrugged off his long history as a legal enforcer for the GOP establishment and a Bush crony to reinvent himself as a tea party champion draped in the revolutionary flag. He ran for U.S. Senate in 2012 at the height of the anti-tax movement's momentum, won his role to office and quickly vaulted himself to the head of the pack by posturing himself as a humble constitutional conservative.

Cruz was considered the presumptive front-runner when he was running for President in 2016. He had a lot going for him: youth, momentum, guile, shamelessness and the backing of the establishment. It may have been Cruz's time to be the Romney or the McCain – a token Republican loser who falls on the sword in a presidential race to preserve the status quo – but then Donald Trump came down the golden escalator and the rest is history. Cruz was soon 'Lyin' Ted' and reduced to a national laughingstock in what was supposed to be his year to shine.

To his credit, Cruz rebounded from that disgrace and rebuilt himself. He once again showed himself to be an adept political chameleon. Cruz put on the MAGA hat, started championing Trump's policies and began setting himself up for a future presidential run in the post-Trump era. But during his interview with Carlson, the facade crumbled. Cruz could not adapt on the fly. Beneath the pithy anecdotes and smooth politician speak lies a self-serving shill who would sell his own mother down the river for personal advancement.

Even if it is decades from now, any time Cruz runs for President again he will be haunted by this Carlson interview. Cruz has been stripped bare. He has been gelded for all to see, and the blueprint to attack Cruz is apparent. Cruz can offer impressive spin on most issues, but his Achilles heel is foreign policy.

Cruz's camouflage routine falls apart when poked and prodded on war and military intervention. It becomes obvious that he is not America First and never will be. His ambitions will never be fully realized, and we owe Carlson a great debt for ensuring that Cruz will never be able to fully rehabilitate himself.

Do not expect any other mainstream Republicans to appear on Tucker Carlson's podcast any time soon.