Ted Cruz is leading his fellow Cuban-American senator, Marco Rubio, in the polls, but he is throwing shade nonetheless. Rick Tyler, Cruz’s communications director, tweeted Tuesday.

“A Vote for Marco Rubio Is a Vote for Men’s High-Heeled Booties”

He linked to an article with that headline by New York Magazine’s fashion blog, The Cut. Vanity Fair also speculated where he gets his Chelsea boots, but Rubio’s campaign told Politico they were on the more modest end of spectrum. Florsheims. Similar ones to Rubio’s on the Florsheim website sell for around $100.

It all started with the tweet below from New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro, who first noticed Rubio’s boots Monday.

I dup up a few options; from an $85 pair on Zappos, to an $1800 pair by Tom Ford. But for the record, this isn’t about fashion choices or $$ for Rubio. He is 5’8″.

(via Politico)

Anyone enamored with guns is justifiably subject to some Freudian judgements, in my book. But Matt Haughey, best known as the founder of MetaFilter, took it one step further last Friday evening and embarked on a new project: transforming images of GOP POTUS hopefuls holding guns into images of GOP presidential candidates holding DILDOS.

Haughey took notice after searching for images,

“…the hilarious positioning in them, how everyone’s eyes are all lit up in photos, and when I would swap something else in, it’d make for a good effect.”

Haughey has nothing against dildos and hopes these new pics will

“deflate any power those images have, by reducing them to nonsense.”

He’s also compiling some of his creations (along with their sources) on a Tumblr, and he’s asked people to submit photos for him to Photoshop. You can Tweet him @mathowie. He wants to create one new image a day until the election. Look for #GOPDildo

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(T/Y Tad; via Fusion)

CRUZ THROWS SHADE AT RUBIO FOR HIS "HIGH-HEELED BOOTIES"

MATT HAUGHEY REPLACED GUNS WITH DILDOS IN THE HANDS OF REPUBLICANS