[Theo]

It’s a reference to “ratf*cker” — the nickname given Roger Stone because of his political tactics. Cruz didn’t make the term up.

[dforest]

I guess that would make Jeff Roe a ratf*cker too.

At least Stone hasn’t driven anyone to suicide.

[JoSixChip]

It’s a reference to “ratf*cker” — the nickname given Roger Stone because of his political tactics. Cruz didn’t make the term up.

Of course, I'm sure it makes perfect sense to you that cruz needed to proclaim his desire not to copulate with Trump.

[9YearLurker]

Pretty weird, though, for a political candidate to volunteer that he doesn’t wish to copulate with his (same sex and rodent-like) opponent.

[mkjessup]

It’s a reference to “ratf*cker” — the nickname given Roger Stone because of his political tactics. Cruz didn’t make the term up.

Theo, the phrase indeed is “ratf*cker” but how stupid can Cruz be as to sublimate his beta maleness and use the word 'copulate' instead? REAL men are not afraid to use the F-word when it is appropriate and I can't think of a more appropriate situation to use it when responding to allegations of marital infidelity against one's wife.

If Cruz had said "look, I think Donald Trump is f--kin' with me, but I have no desire to f--k with him", 99 percent of the people reading or hearing that statement would understand it completely and probably agree with Cruz.

But good God man, Cruz must be politically tone deaf if he thought that it would be ok for him to say that he "doesn't have any desire to copulate with Trump"?!?

Cruz is afraid to man up, legally and literally.

[GLDNGUN]

It’s a reference to “ratf*cker” — the nickname given Roger Stone because of his political tactics. Cruz didn’t make the term up.

Right, but he brought it up, and his use of it is incomprehensible. Quite often, Ted Cruz is not quite as cunning with the English language as he perceives himself to be. I think his attempt was to call Trump a "ratf*cker" without using the term, but what tumbled off his golden tongue was "I like to have sex with rats, but I don't want to have sex with Trump even though he is a rat."

Not even Cruz supporters can look at that statement and beam with pride.

[berdie]

And from what I read originated during Watergate in the Watergate Chronicles.

I didn’t know that and was very cautious investigating it, lol.

It wasn’t the best choice of phrase for Cruz since, although it maybe a common term in political backrooms, the average Joe/Jane doesn’t have a clue what was meant.

[Ozark Tom]

He did make some screwy comments concerning rats though.