Ted Cruz Says He’s Got The Strongest Ones Of Any GOP Presidential Candidate

Presidential?

There’s really no way to tell this story better than The New York Times just did.

In an article today by Matt Flegenheimer, “Ted Cruz’s Iowa Bus Tour: Off-Color Question Draws Roar From the Crowd,” we learn that in Osage, Iowa, population 3,619, at the Teluwut Grille House & Pub, an “attendee, capping an occasionally profane preface, asked Mr. Cruz if he had ‘the brass ones’ to effect change.”

“The crowd roared,” reports Flegenheimer, who, looking at his Twitter timeline, appears to be embedded with the campaign.

“I want to thank you for what is officially the most colorful question we’ve had on the bus tour,” Mr. Cruz said. “I have to say, it’s hard to know where to start.”

After some well-worn stump-speech fodder, Mr. Cruz got around to his central thought: In the Republican race, he suggested, no one could match him “when it comes to strength of spine, or other body parts.”

Two other journalists, who apparently were also in the room, tweeted similar reports:

Jake Tapper posted this tweet, which shows Cruz at the Teluwut Grille House & Pub, with none other than the professional anti-gay activist Bob Vander Plaats:

How is this a “presidential” campaign? It’s not very presidential at all.

 

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