Senator Cruz: One of the Smartest, Most Educated Persons to Ever Run for President?

[Moonglow]

Intellectually, Cruz is very bright
Socially, he is a moron

Let's compare Cruz to Palin

Palin went to six colleges to try to eke out a Communications degree. Hard to mistake her for a genius
However, Palin knows people. She knows how to work a room, crack a smile, make a joke. She is someone people gravitate to

Cruz is basically a dick. He is awkward in public, you cringe when he tells a joke and poses to tell you this is where you are supposed to laugh. Cruz has no political allies in either party.
Politically, Cruz is inept in forming a coalition and reaching an agreement

And he reminds me of a shuckster...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Senator Cruz: One of the Smartest, Most Educated Persons to Ever Run for President?"

Yet however 'smart' and 'educated,' Cruz is nonetheless comprehensively wrong on all the issues.

Cruz is wrong to seek to violate the privacy rights of women, the equal protection rights of gay Americans, and the due process rights of immigrants. He's wrong on taxes, deficit reduction, and foreign policy.

He was wrong to try to shutdown the government, wrong to try to 'get rid' of the ACA absent having a program to replace it with, and wrong in his desire to conjoin church and state in violation of the Framers' mandate that church and state remain separate.

Cruz represents all that is wrong with the TPM and extreme right – the aversion to facts and the truth, the blind adherence to failed conservative dogma, and the hyper-partisanism where what's best for the GOP is put before what's best for the country.

 

[NYcarbineer]

He's a conservative, so he can't be one of the smartest.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

He's quite the amazing orator as well. Not only was he actually able to shut down the government just by reading a children's book about a weird food his father invented.

It's funny how when Obama and the Democrats refuse to compromise and the Republicans decide to finally show some spine and play hardball, it's all the Republicans' fault for a shutdown. You guys never admit that your side is the side that is usually unwilling to compromise and meet the other half way.

When their side won't compromise- they are cheered as hero's by their sheep

i am still waiting for one of the democrat dolts to say something in reference to a country Ted can see from his house.

 

[occupied]

He's a conservative, so he can't be one of the smartest.

Education was wasted on him, any dumbass can brainlessly take the most extreme positions on everything.

 

[occupied]

He's quite the amazing orator as well. Not only was he actually able to shut down the government just by reading a children's book about a weird food his father invented.

It's funny how when Obama and the Democrats refuse to compromise and the Republicans decide to finally show some spine and play hardball, it's all the Republicans' fault for a shutdown. You guys never admit that your side is the side that is usually unwilling to compromise and meet the other half way.

When their side won't compromise- they are cheered as hero's by their sheep

i am still waiting for one of the democrat dolts to say something in reference to a country Ted can see from his house.

He's too busy looking in the mirror to see anything else.

 

[Vigilante]

Yes, Ted has the pond scum worried, especially after Hillary DESTROYS ALL EVIDENCE and steps all over a Congressional subpoena! Bring on FAUXAHONTAS!!!! WO,WO,Wo,Wo........

 

[Stephanie]

He's a conservative, so he can't be one of the smartest.

Education was wasted on him, any dumbass can brainlessly take the most extreme positions on everything.

You're thinking of your Marxist/commie Obama. he's so extreme the people kicked his PARTY out of control of Congress in just SIX YEARS

Remember after Carter the people couldn't stand electing another democrat?

Well after Obama

 

[occupied]

He's a conservative, so he can't be one of the smartest.

Education was wasted on him, any dumbass can brainlessly take the most extreme positions on everything.

You're thinking of your Socialist/commie Obama. he's so extreme the people kicked his PARTY out of control of Congress in just SIX YEARS

Quit being such a political dumb ass. It's the neo-fascist Bircher flat-earthers like you who have went extreme.

 

[orogenicman]

Senator Ted Cruz may be among the smartest and best educated persons to ever run for president. Consider:

* He attended a private elementary school and high school and graduated from high school as the class valedictorian.

* He began formally studying economics when he joined the Free Market Education Foundation--at the age of 13.

* He earned a bachelor’s degree in public policy and graduated cum laude from Princeton University.

* While he was at Princeton, he won the top speaker award at the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship. That same year, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year.

* In 1995, he was a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, which made him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship. Princeton's debate team later honored him by naming their annual novice championship after him.

* Next, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude and at the top of his class in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.

* While at Harvard, he was selected to be a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. And, unlike when Obama was “selected” to be the HLR editor, the selection committee did not have to lower the selection standards to enable Cruz to be selected. (As most here know, Obama was only named HLR editor after the selection committee lowered the selection standards; otherwise, he would not have even qualified for consideration.)

* Regarding Cruz’s performance as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant." (Incidentally, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who spent hours interviewing Cruz, has likewise said that Cruz is a very smart man.)

* While at Harvard, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

* After graduating from Harvard, he served as a law clerk to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first Hispanic to clerk for a SCOTUS Chief Justice.

Cruz also has an impressive resume in terms of professional achievement and public service. Consider:

* Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

* From 2003 to 2008 he served as Solicitor General of Texas. As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five of his cases.

* Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including, as mentioned, nine before the Supreme Court.

* It should be mentioned that Cruz's record of arguing before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas and any current member of Congress.

* Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, and as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century by Texas Lawyer.

Whether all this means that Cruz would be the best candidate to run against the Democratic nominee is another question.

Both sides like to portray the other as stupid, dumb, poorly informed, hollow, etc., and in some cases those labels are justified, but no rational person can believe such things about Cruz. Clearly, Cruz is very smart and very well educated.

And yet every time he opens his mouth in the Senate, a foot gets magically inserted.

Examples:

“It is the job of a chaplain to be insensitive to atheists”

Obama just a “social worker” who wants to put ISIS “on expanded Medicaid”

“I will renounce any Canadian citizenship”

“I expect them to start quartering soldiers in people’s homes soon”

Erm, read the bill of rights, Senator.

“Gay marriage” leads to Christianity becoming “hate speech”

Or this train wreck:

The Obama economy is a disaster, Obamacare is a train wreck, and the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind — the whole world is on fire,” Cruz recently told a crowd in Barrington, New Hampshire.

“The world is on fire?” asked a 3-year-old girl in the audience

“The world is on fire. Yes! Your world is on fire,” Cruz responded. “But you know what? Your mommy’s here and everyone’s here to make sure the world you grow up in is better.”

When this man tries to gut NASA's budget, I think it will be clear to the American people what kind of man he really is. Oh wait, he is already trying to do that.

 

[Stephanie]

You democrat sheep just go vote for the old lady you kicked to curb for the man the last time she ran. You don't have to worry over who Republicans pick to run.

now baaa baaa along

 

[Rexx Taylor]

I wonder if Joe Biden can see slaves picking cotton from his house.

 

[orogenicman]

I wonder if Joe Biden can see slaves picking cotton from his house.

Why, are you considering buying some?

 

[hangover]

Senator Cruz: One of the Smartest, Most Educated Persons to Ever Run for President?

I can only hope there's enough moron cons to make him the GOP nominee. What a cake walk this election is going to be for the liberals.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Does an educated Wetback pick fruit faster?

 

[Stephanie]

I wonder if Joe Biden can see slaves picking cotton from his house.

hell he probably owned a few he's so damn old. they plan on carrying him off taxpayers tit on a gurney, I guess

 

[Rexx Taylor]

at least 75% of regular white americans will vote for Cruz just to prove they are not racists.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

I wonder if Joe Biden can see slaves picking cotton from his house.

hell he probably owned a few he's so damn old. they plan on carrying him off taxpayers tit on a gurney, I guess

Wasn't Joe Biden the youngest slave owner during the late 1800's? I heard he started buying them when he was five.

 

[guno]

Senator Ted Cruz may be among the smartest and best educated persons to ever run for president. Consider:

* He attended a private elementary school and high school and graduated from high school as the class valedictorian.

* He began formally studying economics when he joined the Free Market Education Foundation--at the age of 13.

* He earned a bachelor’s degree in public policy and graduated cum laude from Princeton University.

* While he was at Princeton, he won the top speaker award at the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship. That same year, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year.

* In 1995, he was a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, which made him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship. Princeton's debate team later honored him by naming their annual novice championship after him.

* Next, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude and at the top of his class in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.

* While at Harvard, he was selected to be a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. And, unlike when Obama was “selected” to be the HLR editor, the selection committee did not have to lower the selection standards to enable Cruz to be selected. (As most here know, Obama was only named HLR editor after the selection committee lowered the selection standards; otherwise, he would not have even qualified for consideration.)

* Regarding Cruz’s performance as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant." (Incidentally, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who spent hours interviewing Cruz, has likewise said that Cruz is a very smart man.)

* While at Harvard, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

* After graduating from Harvard, he served as a law clerk to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first Hispanic to clerk for a SCOTUS Chief Justice.

Cruz also has an impressive resume in terms of professional achievement and public service. Consider:

* Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

* From 2003 to 2008 he served as Solicitor General of Texas. As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five of his cases.

* Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including, as mentioned, nine before the Supreme Court.

* It should be mentioned that Cruz's record of arguing before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas and any current member of Congress.

* Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, and as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century by Texas Lawyer.

Whether all this means that Cruz would be the best candidate to run against the Democratic nominee is another question.

Both sides like to portray the other as stupid, dumb, poorly informed, hollow, etc., and in some cases those labels are justified, but no rational person can believe such things about Cruz. Clearly, Cruz is very smart and very well educated.

He is a mentally disturbed bible thumper, sorry for repeating myself

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

He's quite the amazing orator as well. Not only was he actually able to shut down the government just by reading a children's book about a weird food his father invented.

It's funny how when Obama and the Democrats refuse to compromise and the Republicans decide to finally show some spine and play hardball, it's all the Republicans' fault for a shutdown. You guys never admit that your side is the side that is usually unwilling to compromise and meet the other half way.

Relativism is the doctrine which holds that knowledge, truth, and morality exist only in relation to one's cultural, societal, historical and personal context, and, as such can never be the result of soundly reasoned absolutes.

It is through this perversion of reason, wherein relativism axiomatically rejects the objectivity that is essential to truth.



And with truth being essential to trust and, both of those being critical to the establishment of a soundly reasoned morality, and because a soundly reasoned morality is essential to Justice... it becomes clear to reasonable people, that Relativism can never serve justice.