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Ted Cruz, Onetime High School Drama Geek, Loved Playing the Bad Guy
NBC News ^ | April 9, 2015 | Carrie Dann

Posted on 04/09/2015 6:42:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Conservative firebrand Ted Cruz is used to having plenty of opponents cheer for his demise, and it turns out that he got some practice for that role back when he was a high school drama geek.

The Texas senator and presidential aspirant says that he relished playing the villain in his teenage theater productions, which he enjoyed so much that he toyed with dropping out of school to try his luck in Hollywood.

"It's one thing to play the good guy in drama," he told CNBC's John Harwood in an interview. "It's a fun thing also to play the bad guy."

Cruz recounted his fond memories of playing Bill Sikes, the villain in the musical "Oliver!"(continued)

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Military/Veterans; Politics
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What did Obama do in High School, College, Anywhere?

It is relevant because he's still the President.

21 posted on 04/09/2015 7:28:50 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

lol...nbc makes a whole story with a negative slant about Cruz being in high school plays? Wow...Cruz must be remarkably scandal free.


22 posted on 04/09/2015 7:31:34 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

I heard he once had a poopy diaper.

/rolleyes


23 posted on 04/09/2015 7:40:35 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One of the curses of being a liberal is living a lifetime of believing you can create reality with language.

Another is the compulsion to apply public school caliber thinking, which inevitably leads you to believe you’ve found a meaningful connection between two entirely unrelated things.


24 posted on 04/09/2015 7:44:19 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: MaxMax

He smoked dope and it shows.


25 posted on 04/09/2015 8:05:16 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Politicalkiddo

I won the role of being the mean, sea-hag in a local theater group and loved it - until I realized I was so convincing that the kids were scared to even approach me for an autograph after the play. Guess I was a little too convincing? It was fun though.


26 posted on 04/09/2015 9:25:55 PM PDT by Catsrus
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To: Dilbert San Diego
So what political statement will the liberals fabricate here, about Cruz wanting to play the bad guy in school plays?

It might give them pause to think that deep inside he is a little bit like them - they may become conflicted....

27 posted on 04/10/2015 3:50:40 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We sure know a lot about Ted's background: His grades, the names and schools of his study hall buddies, the roles he played in H.S. drama, the fact that he had beer in senior year.

To this day we don't know anything about the current Resident.

28 posted on 04/10/2015 3:54:59 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: SmokingJoe

Wow. Ted Cruz and I have something else in common we both played Bill Sykes in Oliver when we were in High School. Kewl.


29 posted on 04/10/2015 4:51:29 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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