PLANK AUGUST 2, 2012
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New York Times article, today:
A Republican Voice with Tea Party Mantle and Intellectual Heft
Quote from the same piece:
“I’d have predicted that he would be a professor, not a politician,” said Robert P. George, Mr. Cruz’s adviser at Princeton in the early 1990s. Professor George, a noted social conservative, said that Mr. Cruz stood out even among his Ivy League peers as “intellectually and morally serious,” writing his thesis on the separation of powers.
Gail Collins column, today:
In a blog posting early this year, Cruz vowed that as senator he would fight against “a dangerous United Nations plan” on environmental sustainability that he said was aimed at abolishing “golf courses, grazing pastures and paved roads.” He blamed all this on the Democratic financier-philanthropist George Soros.
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5 comments
Too many of these publicans are vying for the coveted "upper class twit of the year" award.
- tmmats
August 2, 2012 at 5:24pm
If wishes came true. Rand Paul, Mike Lee and now Ted Cruz. Let's see that smile.
- Doug12
August 2, 2012 at 5:36pm
Cruz is an unknown (to me anyway), but George is not. Elena Kagan has praised George as a respected legal theorist whose respect was due to his "sheer brilliance" and "deeply principled conviction". He and Cornel West have co-taught a popular seminar at Princeton. Sure, George is a former liberal and now a leading thecon. But ridicule will not work, for all it does is concede the moral high ground to George and others who think like him. George believes that abortion is immoral and that the Great Society had negative consequences for Appalachia. I suppose the former is "above my pay grade" but my view is that the latter is wrong, demonstrably wrong. My comment about about golf can be found on one of Noah's blog posts yesterday.
- rayward
August 2, 2012 at 6:04pm
OK, if Cruz is so intelligent, deep etc, AND he claims to believe this stuff about gold courses, the UN, so forth, he's nuts or he's dissembling for the benefit of the fools, who don't need any more power than they already have. PS golf courses probably are bad for the environment, now that I think about it.
- Sophia
August 3, 2012 at 3:44pm
I meant "golf," not "gold." Sorry.
- Sophia
August 3, 2012 at 3:45pm