Posted on 03/23/2016 10:04:10 AM PDT by McGruff
If Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's dig at arch-nemesis Donald Trump sounded good, that's because it was cribbed from an Oscar-winning screenwriter.
The Texas Senator used a line from the 1995 movie "The American President" to warn Trump to stop threatening his wife — only Cruz neglected to attribute the source.
"If Donald wants to get into a character fight, he's better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league," Cruz told CNN Wednesday morning.
That's nearly verbatim from the Aaron Sorkin-penned scene in which Michael Douglas' Commander in Chief slams a rival by saying, "If you want a character debate Bob, you better stick with me because Sydney Ellen Waid is way out of your league."
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Cruz is clearly a popcorn-loving movie nerd, having quoted lines from "The Usual Suspects," "The Princess Bride" and "Jerry Maguire" all along the campaign trail.
it’s a left wing movie with a left wing president.
wouldn’t want to quote anything from it.
or quote a guy who blames his cancer publicly on sex with his wife.
I had also heard somewhere that Cruz has an audiographic memory.
As for lines I like to steal, one of my favorites is from an episode of The New Outer Limits and I'd adapt it in addressing muslims who might threaten to kill me: "If you try to dispose of me, I WILL dispose of you!"
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What a loser this guy is. Not even his comebacks are original.
You’d think bright boy Cruooz would figured out to say something original.
So, he’s a plagiarist. Didn’t hurt Biden .......................
What is Heidi hiding?
I don’t even see where Cruz’s statement is even a deterrent.
“Don’t mess with my wife, because she’s tough.” Yet, he gives no examples or reasons to back up his claim. Sounds more like a bluff.
Google 'Heidi Cruz police report'
This is typical cruz.
He spends his life imitating Reagan, Princess Bride, etc.
He fails at being and authentic Ted Cruz.
Trump is Trump. Flaws and all.
He is too brilliant for originality. /s
Cruz is imploding.
“The Texas Senator used a line from the 1995 movie “The American President” to warn Trump to stop threatening his wife”
Someone else wrote it for Cruz. It does not sound like the way he usually speaks.
But the larger point is Trump told Cruz to stop attacking his wife. Releasing the naked pictures was creepy enough. But then playing the part of a Hollywood politician is just weird.
Cruz is attacking Trump for defending his wife. A new low for Cruz.
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