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kpete

(71,900 posts)
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 09:52 AM Feb 2016

“And when he became Senator, I was like, ‘Oh my God, he called my mother a whore!’”

Beardsley says that she and Cruz, who lived next door to her close friend, would occasionally get into political arguments when she came by. “I’m a classic blue state anti-death penalty pro-choice liberal—I represent everything wrong with America, as far as Ted Cruz is concerned,” she said during a phone conversation, laughing. “We would just yell at each other.”

“And when he became Senator, I was like, ‘Oh my God, he called my mother a whore!’”

He did? According to Beardsley, the two were having an “intellectual debate” about abortion one day, when she disclosed that her mother had once ended a pregnancy. “I remember telling him [that] my mother had two children, they really couldn’t afford to have another child, they really would have struggled. And it was a very difficult, painful decision for my mother.” At that point, she said, “he became vicious and made it personal,” eventually telling her, in his loving way, “that my mother was going to hell and was a whore.”

“He made me cry, he was really awful,” she added. (Two other students who lived in Butler at the time recalled Beardsley and Cruz getting into an argument over abortion that resulted in tears.) “It was one of the worst things that anyone’s ever said to me.”



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“And when he became Senator, I was like, ‘Oh my God, he called my mother a whore!’” (Original Post) kpete Feb 2016 OP
Good thing he didn't do that to someone in my family. Kalidurga Feb 2016 #1
He really should be ashamed of his behavior. In_The_Wind Feb 2016 #2
he is a sociopath Skittles Feb 2016 #5
Unfortunately, we are seeing quite a few sociopaths these days. I don't want one in the Oval Office. In_The_Wind Feb 2016 #7
we already had one - Dubya Skittles Feb 2016 #9
It's actually amazing how NO ONE has ever liked him underpants Feb 2016 #3
His college roommate, who called him a "total asshole" hifiguy Feb 2016 #10
And enough people agreed with him to elect him to the Senate. phantom power Feb 2016 #4
Very interesting. Cruz believes in hell? Hortensis Feb 2016 #6
The question, then, is how did someone so utterly repulsive make it so far in politics? YoungDemCA Feb 2016 #8
Mainly it shows how many fundy idiots hifiguy Feb 2016 #11

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
1. Good thing he didn't do that to someone in my family.
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:20 AM
Feb 2016

As far as I am concerned I would have laughed. But, if he said that to say my brother...Well Ted just wouldn't be as pretty today. Cuz that's how rednecks roll.

underpants

(182,274 posts)
3. It's actually amazing how NO ONE has ever liked him
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 10:46 AM
Feb 2016

Not one single person has come forward to at least give him a "he's okay" nod. Not one.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
10. His college roommate, who called him a "total asshole"
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 07:55 PM
Feb 2016

said he has received e-mails asking why he didn't smother Cruz with a pillow in his sleep when he had the chance.

Everybody hates this narcissistic, sociopathic shitbag. EVERYBODY.

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
4. And enough people agreed with him to elect him to the Senate.
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:24 AM
Feb 2016

And now he's one of the major contenders for GOP president candidate.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Very interesting. Cruz believes in hell?
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:11 AM
Feb 2016

I've been looking for indications that he is a believer and not just a posturer.

I read that when Cruz was a SCOTUS clerk he had a...distasteful interest in petitions for stays of execution and alone among the clerks actually enjoyed being on duty for when they came in. He wanted them all denied.

Shiver. This guy's a creep. The GOP lineup has several authoritarian extremists who are literally threats to our democracy, and Cruz is definitely one of them. Anarcho- is a term some have applied to Cruz, anti-government, but I can't help thinking a religious Cruz's opposition to government may well be to bring it down so it can be replaced with a theocratic dictatorship -- with him on top. He tried to destabilize the nation during the financial crisis, when many economists worried that further collapse here would bring down the global economy, and attempted to disrupt Congress from within at the same time.

 

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
8. The question, then, is how did someone so utterly repulsive make it so far in politics?
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:32 PM
Feb 2016

That says a lot about the state of American politics.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
11. Mainly it shows how many fundy idiots
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 07:57 PM
Feb 2016

and imbeciles there are in this country generally and Texas in particular.

Scream Jebus and at least 35% of the electorate will vote for anything.

So does fundy religion make people stupid or are stupid people fundies? Both I think.

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