Ted Cruz: Enough condoms for all

Politico ^ | 11/30/15 | Hanna Trudo

[Isara]

He mocks Hillary Clinton's attacks on the GOP about contraception and women's health issues.

Ted Cruz wants Iowans to know one thing for sure: He's certain there's no scarcity of condoms in the country.

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Bettendorf, Iowa on Monday, the Republican senator from Texas discussed his views on contraception and women's health issues at the end of a three-day stint in the state.

Cruz addressed what he claimed to be flaws in Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's policies toward women's health issues surrounding abortion and contraception. He also didn't miss the opportunity to debunk the Republican Party's nickname of "the condom police," which he said Clinton had assigned.

"Hillary Clinton embraces abortion on demand in all circumstances up until the moment of birth," Cruz said. "Partial-birth abortion with taxpayer funding, with no notification for parents in any circumstances - 91 percent of Americans say that's nuts."

Then, things got uncomfortable when Cruz turned the policy discussion laced with nostalgia about his wife and two children to a memory of the easy availability of condoms during his Ivy League days.

"When the war on women came up, Republicans would curl up in a ball and say, "Don't hurt me."

"Jiminy Cricket this is a made-up, nonsense example. Last I checked, we don't have a rubber shortage in America. Look, when I was in college, we had a machine in the bathroom you put 50 cents in it, voila!," he continued.

Cruz, 44, graduated from Princeton University in 1992, and then from Harvard Law School in 1995.

Cruz again drew the audience's attention to what he alleged was Clinton's campaign strategy, asking attendees to imagine themselves as the former secretary of state charged with the task of crafting such health policies.

"How do I run?" Cruz asked hypothetically, imitating Clinton.

"Well you can't run on the economy because we have the lowest percentage of Americans working any year since 1977. You can't run on Obamacare...," he continued.

"So what do you do? You go, 'Aha! Condom police. I'm gonna make up a completely made-up threat and try to scare a bunch of folks into thinking someone's going to steal their birth control.' What nonsense."

[Isara]

I can't wait for the debates between Ted Cruz and Hillary.

[skeeter]

Hilarious how the left wing journalists spin the salient point Cruz was really making yesterday.

[stars & stripes forever]

[Ted Cruz: Enough condoms for all]

LOL

[wardaddy]

Condoms suck

[txrangerette]

Here is a video of part of his speech...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/ted-cruz-birth-control-rubber-shortage-america-35506912

[DJ MacWoW]

Then, things got uncomfortable

Ever notice the people on the left that claim to want honest discussion always become uncomfortable when there really is honest discussion? lol

[DJ MacWoW]

The point is the left’s false narrative

[traderrob6]

Good observation.

[DJ MacWoW]

Thanks!

CNN thought it was "awkward". I think we've found two of the original "snowflakes".

[llmc1]

Lol, that was pretty good!

[Cats Pajamas]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE HIM. That crack about there isn’t a rubber shortage was classic. I would vote for him based on that alone. GO TED!!!!!!!!!!

Hillary thinks she might need extra condoms for decorating her tree like she did back in 1994 when she was perverting the White House, according to Gary Aldrich’s book. Hopefully the only tree she will be decorating will be the prison tree. That woman needs serious jail time.

[NorthMountain]

Leftists in Big Media lie all the time about everything.

[Theophilus]

Raincoats for every shower.

[Mr. K]

I am looking forward to the Trump/HilLIARy debates but part of me wishes that for at least ONE of them Trump would pretend to be ill and send Cruz in to replace him for the evening.

Not that Trump won't bitch-slap the heck out of her himself, just that Cruz would do it in an entirely different way that I would love to see.

[umgud]

The muslims actually invented the condom out of goat gut, but the Chinese later perfected it by taking the gut out of the goat.

[Isara]

Not that Trump won't bitch-slap the heck out of her himself, just that Cruz would do it in an entirely different way that I would love to see.

Then, vote for the real Conservative.

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[buckeye49]

I’m glad I finished my coffee an hour ago!!! LOL!!!

[Mr. K]

I agree with you 100% on Cruz over Trump for conservatism.

But....

Trump is drawing HUGE crowds and will have much more drawing power at the polls. Which means Yuge coat tails!

Do you agree? And if he picks Cruz for VP I think Trump is smart enough to work with him on conservatism in government- Trump has made a career out of hiring people who know the stuff he does not know

[Theodore R.]

We can’t jail the choice of the American people. They are her true believers.

[Theodore R.]

Trump ought to bring up Sir Edmund Hillary, but the American people might not be able to connect the dots since they hate dates.