Posted on 01/22/2016 12:58:36 PM PST by JSDude1
RTX22LO4 Why does Ted Cruz, left, make so many references to Cicero, right? And what does that mean for his hopes in the 2016 presidential election? REUTERS U.S.TED CRUZCICERO Ted Cruz's onstage appearance with Sean Hannity was going well. It was February 2015, and Cruz, like all the other GOP hopefuls, was at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C., being lobbed softballs by the Fox News talking head. Hannity was playing a little word game. "I'm going to ask you about three people, first words that come to your mind," Hannity said.
"Barack Hussein Obama," Hannity prompted. Cruz took a few seconds The senator’s response was "lawless imperator"
Lawless was no surprise. President Obama's executive orders render Republicans and Cruz in particular apoplectic.
It's the other word—imperator—that puzzled. Imperator is a Latin word, and not one of the handful, like et , cetera , ad and hoc that have made their way into everyday English (though the word was in best picture nominee, Mad Max: Fury Road, as the title of Charlize Theron's character, Imperator Furiosa).
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Check out the comments at the article. Only a single person commented, and a REPORTER FOR NEWSWEEK responded with “**** off”.
Great customer relations....
“Ne illegitimi non te carborundum”?
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| Love the Cicero quote, Vegas :-) How about Fortuna Audaces Iuvat? To his great credit, Cruz lives that one. Unfortunately, "imperator" William F. Buckley, and therefore causes 95% of the public to scratch their heads. Trump's plain English — and Yiddish!! — channels the Gladiator. And that's exactly why he can fill a Coliseum :- )
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Thank you for the picture to add to my Trump Album.....
Is this a veiled reference to 44 B.C.?
| ... I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, They are all fire and every one doth shine, But there's but one in all doth hold his place: So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men, And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive; Yet in the number I do know but one That unassailable holds on his rank, Unshaked of motion: and that I am he... The Life and Death of Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1, Shakespeare
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