Glenn Beck Describes the Unique and Impressive Skill Ted Cruz Possesses, but Is ï¿½Not Comfortable..

Glenn Beck said Wednesday he believes 2016 hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) self-described “audiographic memory” would be a “massive plus” in a president.

Beck said Cruz remembers anything as long as it’s been said to him out loud because it “imprints on him an audio file.”

“To be able to sit down — if you could just watch all the tapes of Vladimir Putin, nobody is getting around him,” Beck said. “You’re sitting down, ‘Actually, no, that’s not what you said.’ Yes it is. ‘No it’s not.’ … To have someone with a photographic or, in [Cruz’s] case, audiographic memory is a massive plus.”

Cruz is able to remember conversations verbatim, according to Beck. Though the skill has proven helpful in the Senate and on the campaign trail, Beck recalled Cruz telling him that he feels like “everybody is going to think I’m a robot.”

However, Cruz’s memory may have been what gave the senator the ability to call out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the Import-Export Bank reauthorization.

“That’s why he could rattle off word-for-word what Mitch McConnell said to him,” Beck co-host Pat Gray said. “And that’s why nobody disputed him. Because they know he’s right.”

Beck said Cruz doesn’t discuss his unique skill often because he’s “not comfortable talking about it.” He said he told Cruz his memory skill is not a “cross or a burden,” but that it is a good thing. Gray said he believes the only other president who may have had a similar skill was Thomas Jefferson.

In a 2013 interview with GQ, Cruz said he memorized the Constitution and would travel around Texas reciting it with his friends in a group they formed called the “Constitutional Corroborators.” And of course in the Senate, he drew on his skills during his 21-hour speech against the Affordable Care Act.

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Because Trump gets results.

That's right. He is an executive, and he has shown himself to be fearlessly outspoken, which I think has been his principle asset in this primary campaign. It won me over.

I was never really an admirer of Trump, but I was impressed by the way he rebounded in recent years from setbacks. Anyway, I'd vote for him in a a second. I think possibly he's the only real hope.

Your totally wrong on Ted Cruz’s so called defeats in the Senate and the sound bites by many of Trump fans.

Starting to sound like old Fox News Brit Hume there.

This is no excuse in regards to Ted Cruz’s defeats in the Senate.

Ted Cruz isn’t God like like some portray Donald Trump as.

To make matters worse you have Mitch McConnell as the GOP leader in the Senate with the GOPe gangsters pushing though their agenda.

One man can’t do it all...

That’s the jib picking question that Ted Cruz responded to from Brit Hume when Brit Hume asked Ted Cruz “ What have you done ? “.

I am with you on these issues but I recognize the bigger issues facing us right now. If this country isnâ€™t righted, if the circling the toilet boil isnâ€™t stopped, there wonâ€™t be a country left in which to fight abortion or health insurance or homosexual lobby, can you see that?

I have to disagree that "fiscal is more important than moral". Yes, the fiscal situation is critical and dangerous... but so is the moral. I'm of the opinion that we don't bring money with us when we die, and that it's better to be poor and righteous than rich and corrupt. It'd be far better for the USA to become the financial equivalent of Ethiopia and become morally upright, rather than keep relative financial comfort and go to hell in a handbasket, murdering millions of children and spreading sexual perversion by the truckload.

In short: if the moral situation isn't righted, it won't make a d*mn bit of difference whether the budget is balanced or not. If we buy our prosperity by relegating child-murder and sexual perversion to second-tier (or lower) issues, we DESERVE to collapse, as a nation. God doesn't want our prosperity; he wants our integrity. Without God, nothing else matters... and God is utterly concerned with our moral choices, and utterly UNconcerned with our financial comfort/stability.

Itâ€™s called not being stupid, and knowing the political landscape well enough to not harbor these idiot fantasies that too many on the right have whom have no clue about the abilities of the left to shape agendas effortlessly and destroy weak candidates with ease. That think that pedantic speeches and trying to be too smart by half is going to beat the left. That is not going to cut it.

Pardon me, but: apart from the direction (i.e. more conservative), how is this sort of argument different from "Vote for Romney/McCain/insert-squish-here, because we need to be practical about the political landscape"? The idea of "vote for the practical person", when taken as a sole (or even a main) principle for voting, is INSANE... partly because the general idea of "practical" usually means "appeals to my personal tastes".

Again: I don't blame anyone for liking what Trump says and does in the media; I don't blame people for enjoying the sense that Trump can (and is inclined to) "slug away at the corrupt media with impunity". All granted, and long overdue. But a country isn't run on that sort of (if I can borrow a phrase from another FReeper) "reality TV excitement". It's foolish to vote for the person with the biggest mouth, simply because that mouth happens to be turned against our enemies at the moment. If the person in question can't be trusted, then--at the risk of sounding obvious--it'd be stupid to trust him. Trump is in it for Trump, period... and I don't trust him to do the right thing if it's financially/politically disadvantageous for him; nothing in his past suggests that he can act with integrity when the chips are down, and when there's no applause.

Besides: IMHO, those who think that Ted Cruz CAN'T handle the media and liberals (both with words and with votes/actions in the senate) haven't been paying attention. Trump has more media play because he's more crass and belligerent and loud; but voting for him is the tactical equivalent of voting for Lady Gaga.

Well said. We love Cruz. But the proven ability to succeed in large, complex organizations is what is exciting about Trump.

Silk of Diamond and Silk put it well in an interview with Don Lemon:

Don Lemon, CNN: Silk, How can he [Trump] bring back jobs? You know he’s bring criticized for being vague and not going in deeper with his policies and how he’s going to do that.

Silk: Being a business person, you don’t tell all your secrets. You don’t talk a whole lot. You keep that inwards and strategically plan out how you’re gonna do it. And then you put it into action. Instead of just talking about it, you be about it.

See it on YouTube.

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