# What phrases won't Ted Cruz use? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663 "2016-01-20T06:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/1 "2016-01-20T06:29:02Z")
Ted Cruz’s big stump fireworks seem to be denouncing Obama for not using the phrase, “radical Islamic terrorists.” Fair enough, but there are lots of pertinent phrases I am noticing Ted Cruz is not uttering. For instance, “tax and revenue increase”. The debt is a big problem, and citizens sure would be less alarmed if they knew there was a way to actually pay it off without abandoning Social Security and Medicare. “Racist neo-fascist demagogue.” C’mon, how can anyone understand this election cycle without that one? “Credulous, easily led, Confederate-flag waving, bible-thumping yokel.” Ted Cruz, I demand that you utter these words!!! :mad: What phrases have you noticed Ted Cruz not uttering, dear reader? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/2 "2016-01-20T06:37:34Z")
I think you may have found the Achilles heel of TC’s campaign. Once this gets out, his campaign will implode within days. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/3 "2016-01-20T07:14:04Z")
Commie Buttfuckers? I’m pretty sure he hasn’t used that one. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/4 "2016-01-20T07:50:59Z")
And once you go Bakunin, you never go back. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/5 "2016-01-20T07:52:15Z")
Collector, collected, collection…but never collective. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/6 "2016-01-20T13:08:11Z")
Given how vehemently anti-gay he is, I’m surprised I’ve not heard him utter the words “Take me up the ass right here in this stall”, perhaps whispered into the hidden microphone of an undercover store detective. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/7 "2016-01-20T16:35:14Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Given how vehemently anti-gay he is, I’m surprised I’ve not heard him utter the words “Take me up the ass right here in this stall”, perhaps whispered into the hidden microphone of an undercover store detective. Store detective?!! Republicans don’t go in stores – let the poor people do the shopping! Republicans use publicly-funded private transportation places, like airport stalls. Ask ex-Sen. Larry Craig. Ask George Rekers. Etc. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/8 "2016-01-20T18:06:59Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > What phrases have you noticed Ted Cruz not uttering, dear reader? “Radicalized right-wing conservative Christians” comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/9 "2016-01-20T18:59:39Z")
“You thought I really **meant** all that crazy shit?! How dumb **are** you people?!” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/10 "2016-01-20T20:03:02Z")
“I’m withdrawing from the race” ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/11 "2016-01-20T20:36:30Z")
“I’m proud to introduce my new campaign manager, **Try2B Comprehensive** ” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/12 "2016-01-20T20:55:48Z")
“O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/13 "2016-01-20T21:02:31Z")
“Dang, and I was gonna ask Palin to be my running-mate…” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/14 "2016-01-20T23:45:16Z")
“I wouldn’t even vote for me” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/15 "2016-01-21T00:17:04Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > “O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!” Thread winner. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/16 "2016-01-21T05:12:01Z")
One you’ll never hear him say? Here: “My honorable opponent…” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/17 "2016-01-21T05:59:24Z")
Hey, it’s over, **Colibri** won, forget it. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/18 "2016-01-21T06:24:34Z")
“Radical Christianity” “Radical Christianist Clerics” You know, like Hagee and the Bakkers and Huckabee. “The Christian War on America” ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/19 "2016-01-21T09:13:32Z")
“Hi! I’m Ted Cruz, and my campaign headshot looks like Grandpa Munster’s cum face.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663/20 "2016-01-21T15:03:04Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > “Hi! I’m Ted Cruz, and my campaign headshot looks like Grandpa Munster’s cum face.” Actually, [that’s been noticed before.](http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/ad35/polyscience/gop-munster-family-13_zpscf557152.jpg) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-phrases-wont-ted-cruz-use/743663.md?page=2)