[betty boop]

Smartest Guy in the Room, no matter what Room he walks into.

So says his former Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz.

Cruz is especially good in debate — he can see the traps being laid for him by dishonest correspondents. In the end, he manages not only to evade the trap, but to snare his dishonest correspondent in it instead.

To illustrate: a recent exchange with a left progressive news correspondent, who repeatedly tried to get Cruz to answer a question that basically boiled down to "are you an anti-gay bigot?"

Any direct Cruz denial would be spun by the MSM and the Huffington Posts of this world (et al.) as a confession that Cruz doesn't support gay marriage because he hates gays as a class — just by answering "No." But the correspondent already knows that Cruz couldn't answer "Yes."

I know this sort of verbal trap is illogical on its face; but that's how these folks operate. Cruz's denial would be headline news for days, a subversive misdirection of the substance of the issue. Cruz realized that just to answer such a question would be to "dignify" or "validate" it. So he took a pass.

Instead, he turn the question around, and flung it back into his correspondent's face: "Are you an anti-Christian bigot?"

Cruz is simply brilliant. I can't wait to see him on-stage during the GOP primary debates!!!

[Jacquerie]

Cruz is brilliant. He is probably the only candidate I will vote for president.

Still, I'm disappointed with his proposal: Rendering the justices directly accountable to the people would provide such a remedy . . .

The crumbled remains of our republic do not need any more of that which caused our downfall in the first place, which is too much democracy.

As Cruz pointed out, the Senate has become institutionally incapable of fulfilling its duty to convict all but the worst dirtbag federal magistrates, judges, appointees, presidents. Neither will it trim the jurisdiction of federal courts.

The narrow solution is to reform the senate so that it can perform its appropriate, legitimate and constitutional duties.

The broader solution is to super-federalize the government as per Mark Levin's proposed amendments.

[YHAOS]

“Are you an anti-Christian bigot?”

LOL!

The answer, of course, is YES! (Not that any of those bigots would answer honestly)

Thanks for the BEEP!

[hosepipe]

Cruz is simply brilliant. I can't wait to see him on-stage during the GOP primary debates!!!
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Nice.... Cruz side steps "some" traps and ignores others.. then fires back salvos of traps of his own...

Brilliant to be sure.. but a dangerous game....

Even if he so-called "wins" most these engagements..
The massive voter fraud "quicksand" awaits...

Not only in the general election but in the primary as well..
to wit; How does a known democrat collaborator, poseur, shill and inventor of Romney-Care win the 2012 republican primary..
you know..... right AFTER the 2010 conservative election upsets..

except by brilliant republican primary voter fraud... -OR-
republicans are really mostly RINOs.. and are basically lite-democrats..

I say; buy your popcorn NOW.. the price will surely escalate..

[Alamo-Girl]

Cruz is indeed brilliant! I look forward to the debates for a change.

Thank you for all of your insights, dearest sister in Christ!