Watch how Jen Psaki turns Ted Cruz's "Peppermint Patty" dis into a wonderful compliment

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That’s a rich attempt of an insult, coming as it does from a sweaty and greasy booger-eater who makes Pigpen look clean.

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I was trying to think which Peanuts character Ted Cruz could be compared to but frankly that doesn’t work because they are all too likable. Even Lucy, and she regularly practices psychiatry without a license.

What a blockhead.

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Well, whenever he is talking I just hear the Peanuts adult sounds

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The kite-eating tree is probably the closest, but yeah, still too likable. At least it produces oxygen and provides shade.

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The kite-eating tree.

(Even that is a stretch)

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Peppermint Patty was always a favorite of mine. She had a kind of free-spirit stoner vibe that was very likable.

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Fixed that for her.

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I’m not understanding how this insult was supposed to work. Is there something about Peppermint Patty that’s negative?

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These guys never attack somebody they don’t see as some kind of threat.
But Cruz is bad even at insults. That guy really can’t do anything.

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She’s a lesbian

(In their minds)

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You have to get down on a second grader’s level. When someone could call you Bed Head Ted and it would make you cry.

Mine was being called a cartoon character’s name.

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That’s what I thought, but that’s not really an insult. It’s the kind of attempt at an insult that makes you look like a complete asshole.

Oh, yeah, this is Ted Cruz, never mind.

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Shit, hadn’t even thought of that. But, yes, that’s the kind of thing these guys would see as an insult.
Wasn’t Marcie always calling her “sir,” too?

ETA: Abbott scooped me! Jinx.

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What kind of elected official delights in name calling, and what kind of reporter thinks it’s newsworthy?

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Yup. I’d bet they attack Sesame Street by bringing up Bert and Ernie, too. Just childish schoolyard taunts again.

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:eyes: I guess you’ve missed a decade’s worth of GOP/GQP news coverage!

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They can’t even do that right. They went after Big Bird (who, I guess, is too big to fit into the big tent?)

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