Posted on 03/26/2016 2:04:33 AM PDT by true believer forever
Mr. Cruz’s own attempts at humor sometimes missed the mark. In one debate, he proposed a method to detect infidelity in which God should “give women a hymen that grows back every time she has intercourse with a different guy, because that will be a ‘visible sign’ of the breach of trust,” according to a recollection by David Kennedy published in a Harvard debate team reunion booklet in 2001.
Mr. Kennedy’s debate partner mocked Mr. Cruz’s knowledge of the subject matter by contorting herself to see how the anatomy in question could be “visible,” according to the booklet.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You are totally out of hand. Find me where I said that too. Again, good luck. When you debate someone, it's kind of customary not to make things up out of thin air.
And what should God have given man that grows back every time he has intercourse with a different gal? Or guy...whichever, makes no difference...infidelity is infidelity. Such sickness!
You posted: My standard is not to post good or bad, positive or negative.” “mal adjusted kid with sociopathic tendancies” is not “good or bad, negative or positive” but simply “truth”???? LOLOL
Later, in the same post, you said: “One thing you’ll notice about the conversation is that we’re not calling Cruz names or calling Cruz’s people names. What we have to say may not be what you want to hear, but it’s backed by thought and care for the country. Your only care is to convince yourself that you are smart. In that way, you are like the part of the internet that people refer to as cheap trash.” (If “smart” is a comparative value, you do a better job of convincing me I am, than I ever could.)
What is becoming obvious to me is that it would be stupid for me to continue trying to talk sense to you. For some strange reason Matthew 7:6 keeps coming into my mind.
Giles you’re quoting single words and using them in your own sentence ... which is a step up from inventing sentences entirely... Bye.
Great post.
“Ted was not about responding to anything,” Mr. Panton said. “He would reframe the whole debate.”
“Nobody was better at setting traps,” said Austan D. Goolsbee, a Yale debater who became a leading economist for President Obama. He recalled Mr. Cruz’s attempts to control debates with carefully constructed arguments that always seemed to anticipate his opponents’ rebuttals.
But Mr. Goolsbee and other top debaters on the circuit who frequently beat Mr. Cruz discovered it was easy to get under his skin, especially with humor. “It would unravel him,” Mr. Goolsbee said.
That inability to handle humor might be a good thing for Trump to note. I have actually never heard Cruz answer a question specifically and simply. He automatically veers off into his talking points and, depended on the quality of the asker, he gets pulled back, but most times just talks till he runs out the clock. It was the first thing I noticed about him when I was trying to figure what he stood for from his own words in real time.
It's just really a horrible joke. I don't know much about Bernie or his sense of humor.
that squeaky clean image is as clouded as Willard’s...
a double minded man is unstable in all his ways...James 1:8
I think he is very repressed sexually and these kinds of thoughts are indicative of that. I mean, who would ever think of that as an example of a breach of trust - checking a woman's hymen? Other than the medieval types patrolling the ME right now, I mean.
Seriously?
I see no problem using the Times if the quotes are attributed and the data sourced and linked, but I'm probably not as smart as you being I support Trump.
Reaching waaaaaay back for straws... As he recalls from a debate 16 years ago...
These people are desperate.
I have seen plenty of Cruz supporters, I'm sure you're one, talk about things Donald said from over 40 years ago. Got no safe space for you, sorry, go away without whining.
Close, but no cigar!
Do you always jump to stupid conclusions?
What? Looks like Lee Strasberg as Hyman Roth in Godfather Part II. No?
For goodness sake folks, if you don’t know exactly what a word means, look it up before spouting off.
Thanks so much for looking out for the folks. As for me, I am getting tired of Cruz supporters who somehow think they, or their candidate, are intellectually superior to the average Trump voter.
I actually do know what the word means, and I also know what it conveys. That a female, maybe your daughter or wife, should be vertical, legs open, while a look at her hymen decides whether or not she has been faithful or is virginal, or, in Cruz' words, has breached the trust, whatever that means.
In case you hadn't noticed, there are people in the ME at this very moment who enlist and encourage the same type of exercise to avail the worth of women. It is a product of repressed sexuality - and that is what Cruz is putting on display with this choice of argument - a repressed and probably perverted sexuality. That he would even say something like this in a debate setting should give you serious pause. But it won't, because Ted is the Messiah.
Hope I didn't cause too much intellectual slumming on your part, just wanted to say my part as one of those barefoot bacon loving Trump supporters. I'll go back under the porch now.
There’s something wrong with Cruz.
You make no sense - I cut and pasted from your own posts, Hillary. Lie, lie, deny, deny.
Not only are you stupid, you are dishonest and disengenuous.
Yep, we’re done - because you cannot promote your guy without tearing down the other guy and/or lying.
Rigid is definitely a word that describes Ted perfectly. That book may have a few unseemly details in it.
Sorry, I forgot to add the “sarcasm tag” (/s). I was making a play on the microphone-cigar phallic symbolism. I know, I know...Too much symbolism sucks.
Excellent analysis, how sick is the question.
There's something VERY wrong with Cruz.
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