Posted on 08/22/2013 1:43:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk
An incisive point from Rich Lowry about the identity politics driving the left’s unusual contempt for Cruz. It’s not so much that they consider him a traitor to his race, as they do most conservatives who are black or Latino, as to his ruling-class pedigree.
A national debate champion educated by Princeton and Harvard Law — and leading the charge against ObamaCare. He’s the John Walker Lindh of the Ivy League.
The party’s highest-profile Texans, George W. Bush and Rick Perry, tended to match inarticulateness with cowboy swagger and lend themselves to mockery as intellectual lightweights. Bush went to Yale and Harvard Business School, yet no one naturally thinks of him as an Ivy Leaguer. The two Lone Star State governors played into the left’s stereotypes so nicely that if they didn’t exist, Gail Collins would have had to make them up.
Cruz is different — a Princeton and Harvard man who not only matriculated at those fine institutions but excelled at them. Champion debater at Princeton. Magna cum laude graduate at Harvard. Supreme Court clerkship, on the way to Texas solicitor general and dozens of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Cruz is from the intellectual elite, but not of it, a tea party conservative whose politics are considered gauche at best at the storied universities where he studied. He is, to borrow the words of the 2009 H.W. Brands biography of FDR, a traitor to his class.
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You are wrong. You and Lowry are simply repeating the msm talking points. Texas is doing well. Rick Perry grew up under modest circumstances, served his country, and represents my kind of values. You need to do some research before you make a judgment.
Yes, the very same one. He could have hired a bondsman like anyone else, but I suppose power is useless if it's never wielded.
yeppers
how he has fallen
lol
IMO he looks to be a possibility should he run in 2016.
I have a good memory and a big hard drive.
Just like words, actions mean something.
I remberber that fight fondly. I ended up voting for Cruz 3 times last year.
Once during the primary
Once during the runoff &
Once during the General.
This thread reminds me of the Rubio threads of one year ago.
Hidden and sealed somewhere because there are none.
The country has a complete enigma as president and it is Congress approved.
He can handle it and beat them just like Reagan did.
LS
I really hate that fat jabba.
I can't recall ever seeing a political upset like it before.
Cruz's senate victory was like an axe-kick to gut of the Texas RINO establishment, just one notch short of (figuratively) tearing off its nuts.
Except.....that Rubio is an intellectual lightweight compared to Ted. Bob
Being an intellectual is no guarantee of anything.
The New York Times is entirely staffed by "intellectuals."
But anyway I take your meaning. I hope you're right.
lol. I saw Perry the idiot in the debates. That was all the research I needed. He was an embarrassment. The LAST thing we need to have is a dumb President on the Republican side trying to talk with foreign dignitaries. Perry is quite frankly the dumbest person EVER to run for President on both sides quite frankly.
Uh, Joe Biden?
Uh, Joe Biden?
That is a toss up. I don’t know who is dumber Biden or Perry....I will go with a tie.
oooooohhhh burn!
The NYT staff is comprised of book-smart intellectuals with little or no common sense. Cruz has it in spades, if you’ll excuse the phantom epithet. Bob
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