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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I strongly suspect Ted Cruz will annihilate the world record for most pandering in an election campaign. I also think by the primary he'll be promoting what amounts to the Christian Taliban.
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The pandering runs deep with this one. Thirty seconds on Wikipedia tells us:
He graduated from Princeton and Harvard and
"won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship." And
"Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.
Yet he still speaks like an awkward, sweaty-palmed rube. He's faking it! He's doing his best to not appear polished.
I like how he chose to announce this at Liberty University though...
From a GQ profile in 2013:
The elite academic circles that Cruz was now traveling in began to rub off. As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn't been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz's law-school roommates: "He said he didn't want anybody from 'minor Ivies' like Penn or Brown.
The guy is the furthest thing from "the common man". Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's just so cynical and blatant. He's apparently an extremely intelligent and educated person, but he's pretending he's not.