The New York Times dug up some priceless anecdotes from Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) college debating career in a story published Tuesday, from a poorly received joke about regenerating hymen to his affinity for the "Les Misérables" soundtrack.
OT: I’m a book editor. Many years ago an author (a college admissions administrator) told me that a student had interviewed him for a profile in the campus newspaper. When the story was published, he was surprised to read that his favorite play was Lame Is Rob.
Sure, that’s the IMPRESSION given off by this story, that’s the VIBE the Tailgunner’s giving off here. But have you ever considered it might not be his fault?
I hear hymen humor is very big in parts of Canada, particularly where they still use horses as a vital means of mass human transport. There’s supposed to be a city where once a year they hold a sort of Cowboy Carnaval, a Man-centric Mardi Gras, where everyone gets rip-snortin’ plastered on local potables and otherwise spends every waking hour eradicating any possible outbreak of hymen intactus, equine, human, doesn’t matter. I ALSO hear that city is where the Tailgunner was BORN!
Tailgunner Ted just can’t shake his Canadian roots.
Oh, come on, already. Look, I despise Ted Cruz. I think Ted Cruz represents the absolute nadir of reactionary right-wing narcissism and is, at heart, pure evil. But organized school debates – high school and college – have always turned on these kinds of nonsensical things, on the straw man, the bon mot, the mot juste, and the always-popular for a certain kind of kid shocking-for-shock’s-sake resolution (cf., “A Modest Proposal”). The only “news” here – and, let’s face it, it’s not really news – is that the young Ted Cruz was every bit as puerile and just plain bad at that sort of thing as the contemporary Ted Cruz is. But as far as opposition research (or even something mildly interesting), this is thin, thin gruel.
That was my reaction too. Very thin oppo research. The writer should come back when there is something to report. Maybe a review of his home work in 2nd grade will reveal something important.
When I first glanced the headline, I thought it said Cruz had joked about ‘hymns’ – and I thought to myself, well, if you’ve heard some of the more wacky ones then who hasn’t cracked jokes at them?
damn… even considering how offensive the comment is; i always go the ‘who the fuck would think of something like this in the first place’ angle… did he check the sheets after the first time with his wife… what a creep.
Inquiring minds what to know why it took Cruz’s father Rafael almost 50 years to become a citizen of this country?
“The elder Cruz says he renounced his Canadian citizenship when he finally became a U.S. citizen in 2005 — 48 years after leaving Cuba. Why did he take so long to do it?”
Back when I was in college, I was always checking my girlfriend’s hymen the day after we’d had sex. Like Ted Cruz, I knew that if it didn’t regrow within 24 hours, that was a sign she had been unfaithful to me. Fortunately, it always did. That’s why I married her.
Then one day after she’d given birth to our fourth child, I realized her hymen wasn’t regrowing any longer. So I divorced the adulterous bitch. She got child support but not a dime in alimony!
That’s obvious if you’ve ever heard Cruz, Sr., speak – but, yes, I believe it is safe to go with that line of thinking based soley on what he said here.
