James Talarico, Democrat candidate for Senator from Texas,
demolishing Ted Cruz for smearing him as not "masculine" enough to
win in Texas:
"Yeah, there's been a lot of talk in this race about
what it means to be a real man and recently on the campaign trail, I told the
story of my adoptive dad, the man who gave me his last name, the man who raised
me as his own. Every Saturday morning, Mark Talarico would mow our lawn,
whether it was rain or shine, whether he wanted to or not, he insisted on
mowing our lawn himself. And then without anyone asking him to, he would go
next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because our neighbor was elderly, she was
a widow. And my dad never talked about it. He just did it. Because that's what
a man does. A man takes responsibility. A man upholds his commitments to his
family and his neighbors. A man does what's right even when no one is watching.
And here's what real men don't do... They don't lie and cheat their way through
life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. They don't steal from
other people in order to enrich themselves. And so I've said before, and I will
keep saying, that real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves and so I
welcome this debate about what it means to be a man. And I don't think Ken
Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is."
Someone should tell Ted Cruz that people in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones. After Cankles called Rafael’s wife ugly during the 2016
Republican primary, Cruz went on to kiss the ring and the ass of Cankles; he
sold his own family in pursuit of power; so manly.
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