[trisham]

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992. 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. In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton). Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship. Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.

Source: Wikipedia

With regard to debating, no one has better credentials than Cruz.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[6][39] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review”

He only got better with time.

[KC Burke]

I have a brilliant old buddy that despite placing in the top teams in National Collegiate debates and winning a speaker award ended up doing very little in life as far as I know.

The difference, I think, was recreational drug use.

[knarf]

HERE TIZ

[CyberAnt]

And, what they left unsaid was that he was also a debater at Harvard; and a champion there too.

His Professor, Dershowitz (liberal), said Cruz was the most brilliant Constitutional scholar he had ever met.

I like Cruz’s personality just the way it is; a little irritated at the way things are - which fits nicely with how “mad as hell” I am.