To the surprise of zero people, Ted Cruz has announced he's seeking the Republican presidential nomination. I just wrote a post about how I think he's one of those guys who will run and run and run for it and never get it, ultimately receiving the same number of electoral votes in his lifetime as me. In it, I directed you to this article entitled, A Brief Guide To What Ted Cruz Actually Believes. and I explained how with anyone of either party, I think a piece like this should be titled, What He or She Actually Believes They Should Say.
It was a much longer piece than this but as I was finishing, I thought, "It's way too soon for me to be paying that much attention to this race." This one's going to be a roller coaster of changing front runners — obviously on the Republican side and maybe on the Democratic, as well — and hysterical charges and people predicting Doomsday if X is elected and I just don't have the stomach for this. I'm going to try to not watch or read much about this election until it gets down to the point where two people are actually going to get their respective parties' nominations. I probably won't succeed but then neither will most of the people seeking those nominations, either.
The thing to remember is this: Just because someone is running for president, that doesn't mean we have to listen to them. Now, anyway. Watch old Bilko episodes instead.