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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Ted Cruz has an intellectual contempt for eveyone in the room,"
he thinks he's smarter than everyone else, and he shows it." --- Mike Barnicle and the rest of the Morning Joe panel. They briefly spoke of him with disgust after showing his failure to discredit Yates during her questioning.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,427 posts)I'd say he got his ass handed to him and is just too ignorant to realize it.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)to break and she knocked it out of the park.
I thought it was more like brass knuckles to the testicles. He hobbled back to the senate building bent over, chewing ibuprofen.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,427 posts)I choked on my coffee a bit but it was worth it!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Nitram
(22,801 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)I have a PhD from MIT, so I've met a few smart people. The smartest don't have to tell you. Since they are always asking questions and trying to understand things, they know how much is unknown.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)He always says if he has to tell people he has one it isn't worth much.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)PhD- MIT -- wicked cool.
Cruz's ego is delicate like wet tissue paper, or he'd understand your point, "The smartest don't have to tell you."
BumRushDaShow
(129,018 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,018 posts)(which is what is hilarious and why he should stick to reading it because he would just be attacking himself)
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... since he had just seen her tear Cornyn a new one when he tried the same BS. How bad a debater are you when you're too stupid to recognize - "oh, she's got a pretty good comeback on that one, maybe I should scratch through that question on my list". Dumbass.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)although since today's GOP is essentially Charles Manson with a shave, haircut, and suit, he probably is a lot of the time.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)got his ass handed to him by Yates!
malaise
(269,004 posts)with one hell of a crash landing yesterday. Her slap in the face response was a thing of beauty.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Intellectual and otherwise. Sally Yates took out her scalpel yesterday and disembowled him.