'Oh spirit of Reagan, I summon thee and bind thee to my will.' Ted Cruz, the presidential candidate for people who never learned to use their inside voices: “Obama is not a disaster because he was a senator,” said Cruz. “Obama is a disaster because he’s an unmitigated socialist, what he believes is profoundly dangerous, and he’s undermined the Constitution and the role of America in the world.” The word socialist is boilerplate at this point; I'm more interested in the unmitigated part.