The Conservative Scold is as common as the Angry White Male. Holier than thou. The stern, disapproving look is all that’s left of the self-declared Deep Thinkers and Vulcans.
Cepeda: Written all over Ted Cruz’s face by Esther J. Cepeda
The Cruz who has most often graced the real estate of our newspapers and Web pages has appeared angry, disgusted, tired of your pathetic silliness, done with your sophomoric suggestions, knowing (more than you, duh), barely tolerant (of your ridiculous ideas), superior in every way, extremely self-satisfied and, most often, brimming with contempt. …
Cruz seems simply tired of those of us who aren’t as committed to Christianity or as disgusted with the government as he is.
We’re to be pitied, really, since anyone who might not find him palatable as an elected representative of the entire country is just, well, daft. Cruz’s conservatism is not so much a political ideology as it is, to him, simply the right and only way to be.
Watching him on “CBS This Morning” the day after his announcement, you saw that Cruz is undaunted. His tilted head, frowning lips, shrugged shoulders and hands upturned in gestures of incredulousness lead you to view his politics as anything other than “speaking the truth” and “defending common sense.”