Really? Ted Cruz? Are you serious?

Coming out of the Iowa caucuses I'm dumbfounded that a state... any state... would actually select Ted Cruz as their Republican preference.  I'm not going to go "all birther" on him even though there are valid concerns about his eligibility given he was born in Canada.  Frankly I'm quite okay with him running, with full confidence that his ass will never see the inside of the Oval Office.  But I'm grasping to understand why people would vote for this POS.  I can only assume that people have very short memories.  Either that or they're so religiously brainwashed that they can't see who they're really voting for.  So, true to my inner purpose, let me remind them...

• Ted Cruz is the operative Republican who lead the effort to shut down the government back in 2013 over trying to defund the Affordable Care Act.  That government shutdown cost our country upwards of $24b.  In the process, he performed a ridiculous faux filibuster on the Senate floor, at tax-payer's expense of course, even to the extent of reading "Green Eggs & Ham".
• Ted Cruz's wife works for Goldman-Sachs.
• Ted Cruz is widely despised by his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.  At one point, he couldn't even get a "second" on one of his proposals, which is generally a procedural courtesy.
• Here are Ted Cruz's arguments against the "Democracy For All" Amendment which is a legislative attempt to address money in politics, in particular the "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision.
• Here are some ridiculous quotes from Ted Cruz.
• Here's a great article about Ted Cruz's agenda.
• According to ClimateProgress, Ted Cruz is the #1 GOP Climate-Change denier.
• According to PolitiFact, Ted Cruz's statements rank as either Half-True, Mostly-False, False, or Pants-on-Fire 64% of the time.  If you remove the Half-True of 11%, he's clearly lying more than half of the time.

Well, that's just an cursory overview from a few Google searches.  Hopefully... maybe... I refreshed a few people's memories.