Last October, Ted Cruz spoke at an event in Duncan, South Carolina, where the activist introducing him lauded him as “an American Cicero,” joking that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might kill him.
“We just hope that that he doesn’t end up for him like it did for Cicero because the [inaudible] killed him,” the activist said. “We just need to make sure that McConnell is not packing.”
Cruz went on to compare himself to Winston Churchill, saying that President Obama hopes to “send my head back to England too,” a reference to a right-wing meme about Obama removing a bust of Churchill during an Oval Office redecoration.
