Cruz Puts Yale Progressive in Her Place

[FindersKeepers]

And, he does it graciously.

She comes out like many progressives--playing the race card. You can tell she's so smug. I don't think she was prepared for what Ted Cruz said.

Progressives, in general, are not prepared.

[Chris]

Never liked him before, perhaps because of the way the media portrays him, but that was an impressive response.

Some would say he was engaging in historical revision, telling the truth the way he did.

[FindersKeepers]

Never liked him before, perhaps because of the way the media portrays him, but that was an impressive response.

Some would say he was engaging in historical revision, telling the truth the way he did.

Before Cruz ran the 2016 primary, I didn't like him either. He was too straitlaced, mamba-pamby. But, I think Trump's success lit a fire under a whole lot of Republicans who started standing up for what was right after they saw it could be done.

Now, Cruz is among my favorites, but I'm still a Rand Paul fan at heart.

[DGUtley]

I'd like to see if she responds.

[Chris]

I'd like to see if she responds.

She sort of did. She started off aggressive. By the middle of his response she was nodding in agreement. By the end she was mouthing "I didn't say that!" and near tears.

I think she said he asked racist questions but by the end he was saying she accused him of being a racist.

[countryboy]

She sort of did. She started off aggressive. By the middle of his response she was nodding in agreement. By the end she was mouthing "I didn't say that!" and near tears.

I think she said he asked racist questions but by the end he was saying she accused him of being a racist.

Accusing someone of asking "racist questions", is calling someone a racist, as far as I'm concerned.

[Chris]

Accusing someone of asking "racist questions", is calling someone a racist, as far as I'm concerned.

Pretty much, but arguing whether this or that is racist can be done objectively, whereas arguing whether you or I am is always subjective.

[carolina73]

I'd like to see if she responds.

That was what I was waiting for and too bad they cut the video there.

She was shaking her head like I was not claiming racism when that was exactly what she did, if that was not just editing.

[carolina73]

Accusing someone of asking "racist questions", is calling someone a racist, as far as I'm concerned.

Of course it is. Why else would you they accuse someone of asking racist questions?

But the problem is that like most liberals it appeared to hit her force-field and just bounce off. She only processed what she wanted to hear.

[Standing Wolf]

I agree that Cruz did a good job of defending himself, and was remarkably articulate in doing so.

Charges, from Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and others, that Cruz's questioning of KBJ was "racist" stem largely from the fact that it dealt largely with the teaching of CRT to small children - specifically to the contents of a book taught in a school on whose board KBJ sits.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/pol...t-17021171.php

In fact, Cruz, in the course of his questioning, misrepresented those contents as teaching that "babies can be racist" (it doesn't), but at any rate his focusing on CRT was bound to make him a target. Judge Jackson's response - that she understood that she was there to respond to questions about issues that have arisen in her court decisions, and that CRT had not been one of those issues - was valid, as far as it went. What it failed to do was to recognize that CRT might very well be an issue with which she will have to deal as a Supreme Court Justice in the future. So while Cruz's questioning about that particular book - which has earned him some well deserved ridicule regarding his ability to understand the contents of a book written for very young children - was ill-conceived, bringing up CRT itself was not out of bounds.