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Ted Cruz Was a Smelly, Terrible Roommate
nymag.com/ ^ | 11/26/15 | By Joe Coscarelli

Posted on 11/26/2015 7:43:12 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Ted Cruz Was a Smelly, Terrible Roommate

By Joe Coscarelli

Proud, pretentious American destroyer Ted Cruz has always been a bit difficult. Since elbowing his way into the national consciousness, the Texas Republican has been outed as a hater of "minor Ivies" like Penn and Brown, and is said to have come to Princeton as a 17-year-old with a book titled Was Karl Marx a Satanist? "I would end up fielding the [girls'] complaints: 'Could you please keep your roommate out of our hallway?'" his undergrad roommate at Princeton Craig Mazin told the Daily Beast over the summer. ("I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone," Mazin added. "I would rather pick somebody from the pho

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To: henkster
Unknown by everyone who attended the universities he allegedly attended

I know, right? No former girlfriends, boyfriends, friends at all, instructors ... nobody around to share their remembrances. Either he was a total loner nothing personality who didn't draw any attention whatsoever ... or he wasn't there at all.

121 posted on 11/26/2015 1:54:09 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Ann Archy

Mooch is a man...and Hussein is a woman.


122 posted on 11/26/2015 1:56:29 PM PST by Osage Orange (I'm a bigot...because I don't want Muslims coming to America.....)
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To: Caipirabob
Great capture!

Here is Craig Mazin.

Guess who was the pitted-out, dirty-underpants piggo in the dorm room they shared.

He and his hairy, commie girlfriends had probably never smelled soap and aftershave.

123 posted on 11/26/2015 2:14:27 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Slyfox
What guy in college did not at some point need a good airing out?

When I was in college, four of us shared a suite. One guy had a little different hygiene standards than the rest of us. When he got a little too ripe, we dropped some subtle hints: leaving a map to the shower on his desk, telling him not to move so much because stink molecules were falling off, turning on the shower and picking out a change of clothes from his drawers, etc.

124 posted on 11/26/2015 3:00:41 PM PST by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

0bama was a snorey stinky doper, Hillary smells like carpet.


125 posted on 11/26/2015 3:07:57 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: liberalh8ter

An excerpt for an NPR interview. It sounds like Cruz WAS arrogant in his college years:

INSKEEP: You write that as a grown-up, you unlearned some of those lessons, particularly in the 2000 presidential campaign when you worked for George W. Bush.

CRUZ: Yes.

INSKEEP: That you had been hoping for some senior position in the administration, you didn’t get it because you feel that you annoyed a lot of people.

Have you ended up — have you ended up more like the kid you were at the beginning, when you were unpopular?

CRUZ: Well Steve, you’re right that I described going to Bush campaign. So when I was in my late 20s, I left my job, packed up everything I owned and moved to Austin to join the 2000 Bush campaign....

But I do describe how, on the campaign, I found myself slipping into old habits. And I had been very successful — I’d been very successful at school, I had gone to top schools, which no one in my family ever had. I had clerked on the Supreme Court, I had a successful law practice. And when I was on the Bush campaign, I was very cocky, and I paid a price for that.

I desperately wanted to have a senior position in the administration. But I had burned a lot of bridges on the campaign, and so that was not in the offing. And one of the things I describe in the book is how I went through a very difficult year the first year of the Bush administration, where I had worked incredibly hard.

But it’s interesting. Heidi, I mentioned my wife. You know, a lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don’t necessarily see. Heidi is convinced that my personality changed in a very fundamental way in that period. And one of the things I describe in the book, I needed to get my teeth kicked in. I needed not to be as cocky as I had been on the campaign....

And I point out if I had gotten what I wanted, if I had gone to a senior White House position in the Bush administration, two things would have happened. Number one, I undoubtedly would have been ensnared in some of the many mistakes of the Bush administration, and I chronicle quite a few of those in the book where the administration deviated from the conservative principles that the president had campaigned on. But number two, if I had gotten that, I never would have been elected to the United States Senate.

You know, one of the great things about our democratic process, the way you get elected, particularly in a grassroots campaign like the one that I ran in Texas and the run — the one that I’m running now nationally is you go to hundreds of IHOPs and Denny’s and VFW halls and you sit down and talk with people. And here’s a real simple rule of thumb. If you’re an arrogant little snot, you ain’t going to win because the people you’re talking to are the salt of the Earth. They’re truck drivers, they’re plumbers, they’re schoolteachers, they’re working men and women.

And what we saw when I ran for Senate in Texas, what we’re seeing on the ground in Iowa, in New Hampshire and South Carolina is that old Reagan coalition coming together. People — we’re seeing conservatives and libertarians and evangelicals and young people and Hispanics and African-Americans and Jewish voters and women and Reagan Democrats. And I think — as I point out in the book, I think God knew what he was doing when he allowed me to get my teeth kicked in on the Bush campaign and not achieve the success that I so badly wanted because I need to learn some lessons.

INSKEEP: Do you think you’re less cocky now?

CRUZ: Absolutely. And it’s interesting, because the attacks that are leveled in Washington, they go through almost an Alice in Wonderland, through the looking glass, inversion.

INSKEEP: You say you don’t recognize yourself when people describe you as arrogant or whatever they may say?

CRUZ: Indeed, what they’re doing often, is projecting their own conduct.....


126 posted on 11/26/2015 3:21:45 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: 21twelve
cerpt for an NPR interview. It sounds like Cruz WAS arrogant in his college years:

Well, he was smarter than everyone else; but he was young and eventually learned his lessons well.

127 posted on 11/26/2015 3:27:48 PM PST by SeaHawkFan (all)
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To: Ann Archy
Moochele told us that Barack STunk and that’s why they had separate Bedrooms.....that and he didn’t pick up his clothes from the floor.

Always smells like weed.
128 posted on 11/26/2015 3:50:35 PM PST by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: Osage Orange

BINGO!!!!!


129 posted on 11/26/2015 5:31:02 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Wait, wait...how did we find Cruzs roommate so quickly but never once found anyone who attended school with Obama? It’s almost as if they weren’t looking.... ;)


130 posted on 11/26/2015 6:57:15 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: zipper
Sorta looks familiar, does it not?


131 posted on 11/27/2015 7:34:21 AM PST by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: CommerceComet
My son played football and was living in the football dorm at this one college. When his roommate would remove his practice clothes he would leave them in a heap about four feet from my son's bed. After a while they began to mildew because I think he thought his mother would swoop in and all of a sudden put them in the washer. My son called me in desperation and I told him to go to Walmart and buy two big cans of Frebreeze plus one of those plug in things. And I told him to spray the heck out of the moldy mess. He said that worked. And pretty soon his roommate figured out that he's rather put on some clean workout clothes rather than moldy ones.

This roommate also had his girlfriend over and she would try to spend the night. This one evening my son was in the room working on his laptop. She began to take off her top and my son said, "Seriously, you are really going to do this to me while I am sitting right here?" Since it was after hours there was a knock at the door because the RA had an inkling she hadn't left yet. Well, she hides in the closet. The RA opens the door and asks if there were any visitors in the room. And my son motions with his eyes to look in the closet. The two lovebirds got written up.

My son got out of that school as soon as he could and after that he always checked his roommate out before signing up with them.

132 posted on 11/27/2015 7:51:28 AM PST by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: 21twelve

Rare for anyone much less a politician to admit that sort of thing. Cruz is exceptional in a lot of ways.


133 posted on 11/27/2015 8:04:07 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Slyfox

Yes, it does. He apparently wore it before marrying Moochelle.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/obama-wedding-ring-mystery-dates-to-harvard/


134 posted on 11/27/2015 8:11:13 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: Slyfox

And then there’s this story about the ring:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/


135 posted on 11/27/2015 8:17:28 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Obama smelled of poop. Like it matters ...


136 posted on 11/27/2015 3:42:34 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitutiion)
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