# Ted Cruz Presidential campaign discussion thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 23, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774 "2015-03-23T14:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 32
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/621 "2016-02-09T03:24:05Z")
Just got that same fundraising letter from Ted - dunno why or how I ended up on his mailing list! I’ll be sure to send him something just as valuable as the “check” he sent me. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/622 "2016-02-09T12:59:00Z")
It’s all a game to Ted, most accurately a professional wrestling match in which he gets to play Ric Flair in his prime. He’s grabbing tights, holding the ropes, fingers in the eye, fishhooking… ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/623 "2016-02-09T13:49:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Just got that same fundraising letter from Ted - dunno why or how I ended up on his mailing list! I’ll be sure to send him something just as valuable as the “check” he sent me. Bags of Dicks are going cheap, I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/624 "2016-02-09T13:50:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Just got that same fundraising letter from Ted - dunno why or how I ended up on his mailing list! I’ll be sure to send him something just as valuable as the “check” he sent me. I’ve decided to send him a copy of this: [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWR52fnW4AEz1t2.png](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWR52fnW4AEz1t2.png) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/625 "2016-02-09T14:32:48Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > It’s all a game to Ted, most accurately a professional wrestling match in which he gets to play Ric Flair in his prime. He’s grabbing tights, holding the ropes, fingers in the eye, fishhooking… Yeah, but Flair was a stylin’, profilin’, airplane ridin’, kiss stealin’ son of a bitch and Ted is just a son of a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/626 "2016-02-09T14:53:59Z")
Yup. If Ted was a likeable scoundrel it might work for him. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/627 "2016-02-09T19:51:02Z")
I wonder if anybody in the Texas Attorney General’s office will bother responding to the complaint about Ted’s letter violating Texas law. Ha. I couldn’t even believe that myself. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/628 "2016-02-10T18:47:21Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Yup. If Ted was a likeable scoundrel it might work for him. You guys all saw the [SNL cold open](http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/message-from-ted-cruz-cold-open/2981465) with “Ted”, right? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/629 "2016-02-11T19:07:31Z")
I don’t think Ted Cruz will ever be POTUS, not with [this new info coming out: > [@](#): > > Protecting the privacy of law-abiding citizens from the government is a pillar of Ted Cruz’s Republican presidential candidacy, but his campaign is testing the limits of siphoning personal data from supporters. > > His “Cruz Crew” mobile app is designed to gather detailed information from its users’ phones - tracking their physical movements and mining the names and contact information for friends who might want nothing to do with his campaign. > > That information and more is then fed into a vast database containing details about nearly every adult in the United States to build psychological profiles that target individual voters with uncanny accuracy. > > Cruz’s sophisticated analytics operation was heralded as key to his victory in Iowa earlier this month - the first proof, his campaign said, that the system has the potential to power him to the nomination. ]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_GOP\_2016\_CRUZ\_BIG\_DATA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-02-11-13-47-16](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_CRUZ_BIG_DATA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-02-11-13-47-16)) ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/630 "2016-02-11T19:36:20Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I don’t think Ted Cruz will ever be POTUS, not with [this new info coming out:](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_CRUZ_BIG_DATA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-02-11-13-47-16) I thought all that tech on _Person of Interest_ was still SF… ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/631 "2016-02-11T19:57:08Z")
Since every campaign is moving into this high volume data collection and analysing I truly doubt that story is going to get much play. Yes, Cruz’s sounds like it’s on the creepy level but once you open that can of worms your own data collection comes under scrutiny. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/632 "2016-02-11T19:58:50Z")
Cruz really is a genius. He’s an evil mastermind like Dr Evil, but definitely a genius. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/633 "2016-02-11T20:02:09Z")
Yeah, we’re all very lucky he is so unlikeable or who knows what shit he’d get done. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/634 "2016-02-11T20:06:03Z")
Right, imagine if he were more like Bob Roberts. Scary. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/635 "2016-02-11T21:50:17Z")
[Cruz refuses to repudiate support from a minister who said God sent Hitler to hunt the Jews.](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/11/3748743/ted-cruz-defends-endorsement-from-pastor-who-believes-hitler-was-hunter-sent-by-god/) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/636 "2016-02-12T02:31:04Z")
[Cruz campaign pulls ad featuring soft core porn actress.](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ted-cruz-ad-porn-actress-219170?cmpid=sf) ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/637 "2016-02-12T03:07:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Cruz campaign pulls ad featuring soft core porn actress.](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ted-cruz-ad-porn-actress-219170?cmpid=sf) But did he pull it out too late? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/638 "2016-02-12T14:23:33Z")
Well we all know he’s seeking the money shot, so the pull-out was probably just in time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/639 "2016-02-12T15:09:10Z")
So, there’s something in porn where someone shoots money? Maybe I’m missing something here… ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774/640 "2016-02-12T16:09:54Z")
Nah, softcore, it figures, just faking it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-cruz-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/715774.md?page=33)