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Posted on 03/17/2015 10:55:09 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Washington — Ted Cruz was on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” Monday talking politics, policy, and presidential bids.
Did you know Mr. Meyers is a native of New Hampshire, the first-in-the-nation primary state? Perhaps that’s why he booked the firebrand conservative Texas senator – to preview Senator Cruz’s likely candidacy for the folks back home.
So how did Cruz do? Did he hold his own? After all, late night talk TV generally leans left, a la Jon Stewart. In that sense, Cruz might have been worried his appearance was a trap. Indeed, Meyers hit him up front with general questions about gay marriage, climate change, and Cruz’s occasionally-strained relations with GOP Senate colleagues.
But we think that’s an overreaction. To our eyes Cruz did fine. The guest spot gave him a chance to accomplish two tasks, one aimed at squelching a short-term PR problem, the other at establishing a persona for the longer-term run of the 2016 race.
The short-term dealt with an incident over the weekend in New Hampshire at a town hall meeting where Cruz went through a litany of perceived administration shortcomings and then yelled, “Your world is on fire!” That roused a three-year-old girl in the audience.
“The world is on fire?” piped up the tot, identified later as Julie Trant, who was there with her mother Michelle.
Some media played this up, and by the time the game of aggregation exaggeration was over headlines were saying he’d scared the girl, Cruz complained in his Meyers appearance.
“I was Freddy Krueger. I had fingernails. It was terrible,” Cruz said.
In fact the girl wasn’t scared at all,
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CRUZ or LOSE!It’s such a good segment. I watched it. Cruz is very comfortable, but what struck me is that he is so very quick on his feet. As always, he takes the complex (the global warming part of the discussion) and boils it down to a simple response that anyone can understand.
Ted Cruz is the man
He was greatly received when humbly firmly stating his position on controversial subjects.
It’s what JFK lacked in running as a catholic. The only way is to state ones personal beliefs and also state that the constitution demands and allows for personal convictions as well as democracy
One can be a baptist or catholic or Jew and still adhere to the constitution so a religious conservative CAN be in the White House and uphold the constitution
He did that
I love him but as he lacks a media type charisma he must stop pointing.
Go to cha school on the sly. Like plain should have gone to diction classes
This would be time very well spent
He did fine considering that Seth Myers is a smug leftist condescending a$$hole
Source: Wikipedia
With regard to debating, no one has better credentials than Cruz.
“After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[6][39] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review”
He only got better with time.
I have a brilliant old buddy that despite placing in the top teams in National Collegiate debates and winning a speaker award ended up doing very little in life as far as I know.
The difference, I think, was recreational drug use.
“One can be a baptist or catholic or Jew and still adhere to the constitution”
What about Muslim? Lol
I believe our inept president was also an editor of the Law Review.
Found on the hypertext links in the article posted that there were videos on the page below.
Seth Meyers interviews Ted Cruz about global warming and gay marriage. That’s called an ‘away game.’
NO, he was President of the HLR. The President position is a popularity contest. The EDITOR position is for legal scholars. Obama never wrote a scholarly article in his life. He couldn’t even fake one
0bama wasn’t an editor, he was “president” of law review.
GREAT appearance. No flubs. Funny. Nice. Reasonable. Extemporaneous. Perfect.
And, what they left unsaid was that he was also a debater at Harvard; and a champion there too.
His Professor, Dershowitz (liberal), said Cruz was the most brilliant Constitutional scholar he had ever met.
I like Cruz’s personality just the way it is; a little irritated at the way things are - which fits nicely with how “mad as hell” I am.
Yes; the editor who never wrote any reviews; at least that’s what I read.
Which should tell you he got the position because; just because. And not because he was a skilled or brilliant lawyer.
not really a twang ... not really an accent ... but something in the pitch and his delivery
It's all a plus, IMO ... but just sayin'
It just goes to show that when Saul Alinsky dedicated his book to the devil, he actually meant it. Devil worship or admiration is not a joke amongst today's Liberals, they actually create some bizarre counter reality in the hopes their lies will stick and they can keep their power to do even more awful damage.
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