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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s compare the intelligence between the two. Does anyone know how McCain did at Annapolis? How did Cruz do in University and beyond?


4 posted on 05/24/2013 11:18:11 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Cruz is a genius. He excelled at College. He graduated Cum Laude at Princeton And Magna Cum Laude at Harvard. Unlike some he has his records open to the public. They are provable. When he is in the room, he is almost assuredly the smartest person.


7 posted on 05/24/2013 11:34:03 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Have posted Cruz’ creds here a few times, as they are pertinent. I compare Wiki to Wiki, just for a thumbnail.

Have compared side by side Rubio to Cruz. Rubio looks like a bouncing water Slurping lightweight pansy in comparison. Pardon my impatience with the illegal enabler wanna be.

McCain

1951, the family settled in Northern Virginia, and McCain attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria.[8] He excelled at wrestling and graduated in 1954.[9]

Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, McCain entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. There, he was a friend and informal leader for many of his classmates,[10] and sometimes stood up for targets of bullying.[5] He also became a lightweight boxer.[11] McCain came into conflict with higher-ranking personnel, and he did not always obey the rules, which contributed to a low class rank (894 of 899), despite a high IQ.[10][12] He did well in academic subjects that interested him, such as literature and history, but studied only enough to pass subjects he struggled with, such as mathematics.[5][13] McCain graduated in 1958.[10]
Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[13] and then graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston.

Cruz
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1992.[14][1] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[15] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[16] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.[17]

Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,” draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to James Madison: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”[18][19]

Cruz then attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995.[20][21][1] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[14] As a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”[22]


18 posted on 05/25/2013 12:04:20 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Cowboy Bob

McCain is an idiot,Cruz is very intelligent and has the documents to prove it


50 posted on 05/25/2013 5:41:40 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Cowboy Bob

McCain has been a prisoner of way ever since the N Vietnamese captured him. They messed his mind up permanently. He’ll will do and say whatever the he!! he wants, he figures he has earned it over in Vietnam


51 posted on 05/25/2013 5:44:00 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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