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Ted Cruz: 'Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats'

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Human paraquat Ted Cruz was on the radio show of the esteemed Hugh Hewitt (LOL) recently, discussing the Colorado Springs shooting. After Hewitt gave his usual oral diarrhea, Cruz made this rather bold proclamation:

Ted Cruz: 'Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats' - ABC News

During the interview, Cruz said he believes Democrats are soft on crime because “an overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats.”

“Now listen, here’s the simple and undeniable fact. The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats. The media doesn’t report that. What they report, and there’s a reason why the Democrats for years have been viewed as soft on crime, because they go in and they appoint to the bench judges who release violent criminals,” Cruz added.

"They go in and fight to give the right to vote to convicted felons. Why? Because the Democrats know convicted felons tend to vote Democrat.”
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Wow. That's some pretty damning stuff. Too bad that Senator Cruz is, as per usual, completely full of it. Even the people who did the study he later cited said so.

Are the 'overwhelming majority of violent criminals' Democrats? Ted Cruz said so | PolitiFact

Here’s a rundown of factors that should give anyone pause:

• "Violent" vs. "nonviolent." Cruz said that "the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats." But the paper didn’t break down their pool of ex-felons into those who had been incarcerated for violent offenses and those who had been incarcerated for nonviolent crimes. So the paper contains no support for this portion of Cruz’s claim.

• A small sample of states. The paper focuses on three states out of 50, and the authors say it’s wrong to generalize from this small sample. In fact, in another academic paper, the same authors found that in Iowa, Maine and Rhode Island, the most common registration for discharged felons was not to affiliate with any party.

"Ex-felons’ partisan affiliations vary across states, and we don’t think there’s enough evidence to claim that the national ex-felon population is ‘overwhelmingly Democratic,’ at least in terms of party registration," the authors told us.

• The paper studied "ex-felons," not "criminals." Cruz’s statement makes it sound as if Democrats are committing crimes. That’s not what the paper measured. Rather, the paper found that once felons are released from prison, they are likelier to register as Democrats. The data in the paper doesn’t speak to whether they were Democrats (registered or otherwise) when committing crimes.

• The study doesn’t address ex-felons who don’t register to vote. Half to two-thirds of the voters in these states didn’t register to vote.

• It’s hard to separate these figures from overall demographics. It’s no secret that, statistically, African-Americans are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. It’s also no secret that African-Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic. Put these two together and it’s not surprising to find higher percentages of Democratic registrations among ex-felons.
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Nobody in the Republican field terrifies me more than Ted Cruz -- not that he can win, which he can't, but what he's capable of. He's a lying demagogue; he's Joseph McCarthy without the charm.
 
Kobie said:
Human paraquat Ted Cruz was on the radio show of the esteemed Hugh Hewitt (LOL) recently, discussing the Colorado Springs shooting. After Hewitt gave his usual oral diarrhea, Cruz made this rather bold proclamation:

Ted Cruz: 'Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats' - ABC News



Wow. That's some pretty damning stuff. Too bad that Senator Cruz is, as per usual, completely full of it. Even the people who did the study he later cited said so.

Are the 'overwhelming majority of violent criminals' Democrats? Ted Cruz said so | PolitiFact



Nobody in the Republican field terrifies me more than Ted Cruz -- not that he can win, which he can't, but what he's capable of. He's a lying demagogue; he's Joseph McCarthy without the charm.
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All of these pukes terrify me
 
Kobie said:
Human paraquat Ted Cruz was on the radio show of the esteemed Hugh Hewitt (LOL) recently, discussing the Colorado Springs shooting. After Hewitt gave his usual oral diarrhea, Cruz made this rather bold proclamation:

Ted Cruz: 'Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats' - ABC News



Wow. That's some pretty damning stuff. Too bad that Senator Cruz is, as per usual, completely full of it. Even the people who did the study he later cited said so.

Are the 'overwhelming majority of violent criminals' Democrats? Ted Cruz said so | PolitiFact



Nobody in the Republican field terrifies me more than Ted Cruz -- not that he can win, which he can't, but what he's capable of. He's a lying demagogue; he's Joseph McCarthy without the charm.
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The US certainly turns out a lot of odd politicians.
 
Kobie said:
Human paraquat Ted Cruz was on the radio show of the esteemed Hugh Hewitt (LOL) recently, discussing the Colorado Springs shooting. After Hewitt gave his usual oral diarrhea, Cruz made this rather bold proclamation:

Ted Cruz: 'Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats' - ABC News


Wow. That's some pretty damning stuff. Too bad that Senator Cruz is, as per usual, completely full of it. Even the people who did the study he later cited said so.

Are the 'overwhelming majority of violent criminals' Democrats? Ted Cruz said so | PolitiFact



Nobody in the Republican field terrifies me more than Ted Cruz -- not that he can win, which he can't, but what he's capable of. He's a lying demagogue; he's Joseph McCarthy without the charm.
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That man is entertaining if nothing else. Why do politicians say such absurd things?
 
tres borrachos said:
That man is entertaining if nothing else. Why do politicians say such absurd things?
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I have no idea why they say those things. Ted Cruz is not a stupid man and he has to know that statements like that are not exactly smart. Makes no sense.
 
Kobie said:
Human paraquat Ted Cruz was on the radio show of the esteemed Hugh Hewitt (LOL) recently, discussing the Colorado Springs shooting. After Hewitt gave his usual oral diarrhea, Cruz made this rather bold proclamation:

Ted Cruz: 'Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats' - ABC News



Wow. That's some pretty damning stuff. Too bad that Senator Cruz is, as per usual, completely full of it. Even the people who did the study he later cited said so.

Are the 'overwhelming majority of violent criminals' Democrats? Ted Cruz said so | PolitiFact



Nobody in the Republican field terrifies me more than Ted Cruz -- not that he can win, which he can't, but what he's capable of. He's a lying demagogue; he's Joseph McCarthy without the charm.
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Good god, what a bunch of sophistry. Of course most felons are democrats. Don't be silly.
 
LowDown said:
Good god, what a bunch of sophistry. Of course most felons are democrats. Don't be silly.
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Most felons aren't in any party. You have no clue what you're talking about.

Cruz also didn't say "most felons are Democrats." He said violent criminals. Again, most of whom are in no party.

If you have evidence to the contrary, let's see it.
 
tres borrachos said:
That man is entertaining if nothing else. Why do politicians say such absurd things?
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The question is, how does this kind of statement help his campaign? I put this up there with Trump's out of the blue attack of McCain a few weeks ago.

Cruz basically took a shot at 1/2 of the voters.

I would like that statement to come up in the debate and ask him for a link. It may be true, I don't know. I just can only think that the most violent criminals that come to my mind were the 9-11 hijackers and Tim McVey and I don't know if any of them were registered Democrats.
 
Disaster of a subject.

I have found there is far more effort after the violent act to politically categorize these people as a means to vilify the association, than these violent people before hand declaring on their own who they are politically aligned to for some reason.

It is both troubling and a sad statement on current politics that we engage in this ****, trying to brand all of a party as something terrible because of some lunatic doing something terrible.

Ted Cruz is doing this just to compete with that idiot Donald Trump, which is even more sad...
 
Kobie said:
Human paraquat Ted Cruz was on the radio show of the esteemed Hugh Hewitt (LOL) recently, discussing the Colorado Springs shooting. After Hewitt gave his usual oral diarrhea, Cruz made this rather bold proclamation:

Ted Cruz: 'Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats' - ABC News



Wow. That's some pretty damning stuff. Too bad that Senator Cruz is, as per usual, completely full of it. Even the people who did the study he later cited said so.

Are the 'overwhelming majority of violent criminals' Democrats? Ted Cruz said so | PolitiFact



Nobody in the Republican field terrifies me more than Ted Cruz -- not that he can win, which he can't, but what he's capable of. He's a lying demagogue; he's Joseph McCarthy without the charm.
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Seems to me that the democrats California gun laws have reduced gun deaths by nearly 50% in the last couple decades. This was a horribly irresponsible statement for Cruz to make, but watching Trump's success, he's learned that to reach his parties base he needs to be a bigot. ;)
 
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I seriously doubt that criminals think or know much at all about politics.

Maybe there is a study floating around out there which examines what percentage of their incomes drug dealers and professional thieves donate to politicians and which party receives more of that money?:lol:

Silliness.
 
Ted Cruz always looks like he just got done being forced to watch several hours of really bad porn.
 
Kobie said:
Most felons aren't in any party. You have no clue what you're talking about.

Cruz also didn't say "most felons are Democrats." He said violent criminals. Again, most of whom are in no party.

If you have evidence to the contrary, let's see it.
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The vast majority of all crimes, even violent ones, occur in welfare areas. These areas are overwhelmingly Democrat. So, if most come from/occur in heavily Democrat areas, it is safe to assume that if they voted or supported candidates, those politicians would be Democrats.
 
Montecresto said:
Seems to me that the democrats California gun laws have reduced gun deaths by nearly 50% in the last couple decades. This was a horribly irresponsible statement for Cruz to make, but watching Trump's success, he's learned that to reach his parties base he needs to be a bigot. ;)
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Don't suppose you have anything that actually proves your conjecture that Cali gunlaws are responsible for decreased gun deaths?
 
DVSentinel said:
Don't suppose you have anything that actually proves your conjecture that Cali gunlaws are responsible for decreased gun deaths?
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Well sure, but you'll chock it up to liberal spin by folks that hate our constitution, so no point.
 
Montecresto said:
Well sure, but you'll chock it up to liberal spin by folks that hate our constitution, so no point.
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Sure, a lot of it is spin. Simply look at the difference when gun deaths are talked about instead of homicide rates. Clearly, a very large number of gun deaths are not homicides.
Gun Deaths by State
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRalpha

Compare the two. Cali has 7.7 gun -deaths per 100,00. But only has a homicide rate (all, not just guns) of 4.4/100,000. Of the 3.3/100,000, how many were people defending themselves or accidents?
Illinois, another strict gun state, 8.2 for gundeaths, but 5.3 for homicide rate.
What about states with very "loose' gun laws. Wow, Oklahoma has an amazing 14.4/100,000 gun death rate, but only a 4.5/100,000 for homicides.

I bet if you went down through all the states listed, you will find the largest amount of gun-deaths occurring in states with loose gun laws, however, we find a much greater discrepancy between gun deaths and homicides. I.E. a large part of that discrepancy would be people defending themselves. Seems that with states with very strict gun laws, far fewer are able to defend themselves.

I for one, don't give a damn about gun-deaths that were criminals getting killed by people defending themselves. I do care very much about people being able to defend themselves.
 
Kobie said:
Human paraquat Ted Cruz was on the radio show of the esteemed Hugh Hewitt (LOL) recently, discussing the Colorado Springs shooting. After Hewitt gave his usual oral diarrhea, Cruz made this rather bold proclamation:

Ted Cruz: 'Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats' - ABC News



Wow. That's some pretty damning stuff. Too bad that Senator Cruz is, as per usual, completely full of it. Even the people who did the study he later cited said so.

Are the 'overwhelming majority of violent criminals' Democrats? Ted Cruz said so | PolitiFact



Nobody in the Republican field terrifies me more than Ted Cruz -- not that he can win, which he can't, but what he's capable of. He's a lying demagogue; he's Joseph McCarthy without the charm.
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I'm glad to hear you mention Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin. He was a very brave man and a patriot, and he is one of my heroes. I also have a very high opinion of Sen. Cruz. Ted Cruz scares un-American commies for the same reasons Joe McCarthy did.
 
Johnson said:
Ted Cruz always looks like he just got done being forced to watch several hours of really bad porn.
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I suspect that look of ennui comes from his awareness that many of the people he is talking to are leftist dim bulbs.
 
matchlight said:
I'm glad to hear you mention Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin. He was a very brave man and a patriot, and he is one of my heroes. I also have a very high opinion of Sen. Cruz. Ted Cruz scares un-American commies for the same reasons Joe McCarthy did.
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Joe McCarthy was a demagogue, a liar and an asshole. So, for that matter, is Sen. Cruz. Why are your heroes demagogues, liars and assholes?

"Un-American commies." lol

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matchlight said:
I'm glad to hear you mention Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin. He was a very brave man and a patriot, and he is one of my heroes. I also have a very high opinion of Sen. Cruz. Ted Cruz scares un-American commies for the same reasons Joe McCarthy did.
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McCarthy has been largely vindicated by historical record. There were lots of marxists around back then, as there are now.

They are right to fear Cruz. I would if I was a leftist.
 
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