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Ted Cruz Joked About Hymens While On The College Debate Circuit
talkingpointsmemo.com ^ | 4/22/15 | Catherine Thompson

Posted on 04/23/2015 6:07:35 AM PDT by cotton1706

The New York Times dug up some priceless anecdotes from Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) college debating career in a story published Tuesday, from a poorly received joke about regenerating hymen to his affinity for the "Les Misérables" soundtrack.

The newspaper spoke with several of Cruz's rival debaters who said that the presidential candidate was a powerful speaker that could be undercut by humor. He would "unravel" when competitors deployed humor against him, according to former Yale debater Austan Goolsbee (an economist who later served on President Obama's cabinet).

Cruz also fared poorly when he made jokes himself. From the Times report:

Mr. Cruz’s own attempts at humor sometimes missed the mark. In one debate, he proposed a method to detect infidelity, in which God should “give women a hymen that grows back every time she has intercourse with a different guy, because that will be a ‘visible sign’ of the breach of trust,” according to a recollection by David Kennedy published in a Harvard debate team reunion booklet in 2001.

Mr. Kennedy’s debate partner mocked Mr. Cruz’s knowledge of the subject matter by contorting herself to see how the anatomy in question could be “visible,” according to the booklet.

In another debate against Amherst College, the opposing team argued that Ricky Ricardo of "I Love Lucy" fame should have let Lucille Ball's character work. Cruz responded “Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work," according to the Times.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alinskytactics; elections; humor
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Get ready for this, Folks! This will be their next line of attack to destroy Cruz!

Though you'll note that the New York Times didn't bother at all to investigate Barack Obama's college years! Nothing to see there! Old history! (also, too radical to publish and he might not get elected so better to not even go there!)

1 posted on 04/23/2015 6:07:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

This was laughed off of twitter a few days ago.


2 posted on 04/23/2015 6:08:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

Hey, if this is all they got...

Besides, we should respect hymenated Americans.


3 posted on 04/23/2015 6:09:22 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: cotton1706
This is the treatment any of our front runner candidates can expect in the future. It ain't fair but it's reality. Just don't ask about Barack Obama’s past. Apparently there isn't one.
4 posted on 04/23/2015 6:10:23 AM PDT by McGruff (It's not the crime, it's the cover-up they said.)
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To: cotton1706

Did they ever do an in-depth report on Obama’s college life??


5 posted on 04/23/2015 6:10:37 AM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: cotton1706
The New York Times dug up some priceless anecdotes from Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) college debating career....

I'll bet they did!

...

Good job NYT!

But you still can't find ANYTHING about Barack Obama from back in his "college days"?

Of course, you'd have to be LOOKING, wouldn't you?

6 posted on 04/23/2015 6:12:23 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: McGruff

He will definitely start feeling what Governor Walker has felt for years. I guess Cruz has approached the big leagues. Hope Cruz can handle it. Governor Walker has been exemplary in his handling of media and BS.


7 posted on 04/23/2015 6:12:43 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: MrB

Even a lot of twitter liberals were pointing out that college debates about things like Ricky and Lucy are often full of hyperbolic attention grabbing statements.

Its a debate tactic that can endear the debater with the audience and throw an opponent off his game.


8 posted on 04/23/2015 6:13:27 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cotton1706

What amazes me is the level of detail that can be found concerning these different Republicans, but not one iota of information can be dredged up about President Obama.

How can any “thinking” liberal take this without feeling some shame?


9 posted on 04/23/2015 6:14:24 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: cotton1706

Yeah, this is so much worse than hanging out with a pair of hippie terrorists from the 1960s.


10 posted on 04/23/2015 6:14:32 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: wbarmy

LIBs feel no shame. Without exception they are knee-padded supplicants who are blinded by their criminal/political “leaders”.


11 posted on 04/23/2015 6:15:57 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: cotton1706
Are his comments related in any way to The Vagina Monologues?
12 posted on 04/23/2015 6:16:53 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: cotton1706
I think it's cute that The New York Times' "reporter" has finally woken up after his nice eight-year nap.

Wonder if Jason Horowitz (D-NYT) ever dug into Brack "The Sunni Foreign Exchange Student" Oblabya's college background.

Nah. Didn't think so.

13 posted on 04/23/2015 6:18:44 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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But you still can't find ANYTHING about Barack Obama from back in his "college days"?

NAMBOLA (North American Media-Barack Obama Love Association).

NAMBOLA - the love that dares not speak its name.

motto - "We're not as bad as NAMBLA, as far as YOU know!"

14 posted on 04/23/2015 6:19:40 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: cotton1706

I bet he attended a fraternity party at some point as well.


15 posted on 04/23/2015 6:19:51 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: cotton1706

I guess it is good to know that the NYT is still practicing affirmative action for weak sauce chefs.


16 posted on 04/23/2015 6:20:39 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: GeronL
Did they ever do an in-depth report on Obama’s college life??

NAMBOLA (North American Media-Barack Obama Love Association)? No, they were busy classifying the different tastes of oblabya's "man essences"...

17 posted on 04/23/2015 6:21:52 AM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: cotton1706
This is the first sign of desperation.

They are also factually incorrect, Lucy did work:

She just wasn’t very good at it.
18 posted on 04/23/2015 6:22:16 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (If Hillary was running against Satan, I'd probably abstain.)
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To: cotton1706

Our presidential elections have become juvenile locker room crap talk...............


19 posted on 04/23/2015 6:22:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: cotton1706

Was it not the clinton’s who hung condoms on their personal Christmas tree while in office? Approved of the Vagina Monologues and hired that filthy minded mya angelou?


20 posted on 04/23/2015 6:22:42 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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