Posted on 04/22/2015 1:33:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PRINCETON, N.J. By the time he was a senior at Princeton University in 1992, Ted Cruz had developed an arsenal of rhetorical skills and theatrical gestures that made him one of the most polished performers on the college debate circuit. So when he reached the quarterfinals of the national championships at M.I.T., with the title that had eluded him so far now in sight, he decided to try to knock his Harvard opponents off balance with one of his favorite tricks.
Instead of the regular practice of defending his proposed topic the merits of mind-reading Mr. Cruz let his adversaries choose which side to argue. But the tactic, intended to highlight his confidence, backfired. As he waited for them to decide, the two Harvard students conspicuously dithered, eating up Mr. Cruzs allotted speaking time while they whispered and searched their pockets for a coin to flip.
The audience, now on to the stalling tactic, chuckled as a frustrated Mr. Cruz snapped: Gentlemen! You must have decided by now. But Mr. Cruz and his partner never recovered, and the national championship for which he had worked so hard went to someone else....
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I don't think it does. Hillary's not a dark horse nobody knows anything about, as Obama sort of was in 2008.
There's a lot of stuff circulating about her that the Times can't wholly ignore. Better for them and her to get it out of the way now. By Fall 2016 it will be old news.
But "Bush" is such a dirty word at the Times that I can't think that the paper or its staff would actually exert themselves on behalf of Jeb if he were nominated.
Is Gail Collins, who just would not shut up about Romney and his dog last time around, really going to say good things about a Republican for very long?
They'll fall in behind whoever the party nominates, even though Hillary isn't their favorite Democrat by any means.
“As he waited for them to decide, the two Harvard students conspicuously dithered, eating up Mr. Cruzs allotted speaking time”
Call it whatever they want, but it wasn’t a debate tactic. However, it was a perfect metaphor for what passes for debate on the left today, finding methods to deny the opposition a chance to speak.
And I am reminded of the debate champions last year in that horrendous hip hop style auctioneer speed “argument”. This generation is hopelessly uneducated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8
“debate” in the modern era. As you watch this, remember, they are the champions.
All I know about Obama’s time in college is that he smoked dope, did cocaine and sat on a couch with an obvious homosexual.
Confident the NY Times will go after Obama;s college transcripts with all of the zeal it went after Ted Cruz college debate stories.
Oh, wait...
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