Joe Scarborough shreds Ted Cruz for questioning Democratic candidate's manhood

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough bashed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for questioning a Democratic candidate's masculinity.

Cruz joined the chorus of Republicans jeering Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, whom his GOP rival Ken Paxton has insulted as "Talafreako," and the GOP senator mocked him as weak and not manly enough.

"If you were making a list of 1,000 adjectives to describe this guy, 'masculine' would not be one of them," Cruz said. "I mean, if a stiff breeze came by it would blow him over like a feather."

Scarborough, the "Morning Joe" host and former GOP congressman, called out Cruz on social media and questioned his credentials to make such claims about another man.

"Says the man who still bows to a politician who suggested his father killed JFK, and mocked his wife as ugly," Scarborough said, referring to President Donald Trump's insults during their 2016 GOP primary face-off. "Don’t think this is most Americans’ view masculinity."

Other social media users wondered the same things about Cruz.

"Is it masculine to run from a storm?" asked NewsNation's Chris Cuomo. "Is it masculine to allow a man to insult you, call your wife ugly, and call your father a criminal...and then kiss his a--?"

"The guy who didn’t defend his wife and who left Texas as an brutal Snow storm was arriving to Texas, talking about the meaning of 'masculine,'" laughed chef José Andrés. "Hello?"

"Oh, yes, soft-handed Ted Cruz, the avatar of masculine virtue," cracked former GOP strategist Rick Wilson.

"I just want one reporter to ask Cruz why it’s important that a senator be masculine and if he means then that no women should be serving in office," suggested writer Laura Bassett.