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This endless and deeply tragic week in America has brought us precisely one good thing: a reminder that Craig Mazin exists, the one-time roommate and lifelong enemy of Ted Cruz. Fuckin Craig. Love that guy.
Mazin is a somewhat famous screenwriter and director (he wrote The Hangover parts II and III and some of the Scary Movies), and, more importantly for our purposes, was freshman roommates with Cruz at Princeton. It was an experience that Mazin found deeply scarring; so much so that as Cruzs political star has risen, Mazin has been moved time and again to comment on what a fucking asshole he thinks the Senator is.
In a truly wonderful Daily Beast piece in 2013, he expounded at length to reporter Patricia Murphy about his hatred for Cruz, leaving us with a number of glorious anecdotes that really sound just like Ted Cruz. Such as:
I remember very specifically that he had a book in Spanish and the title was Was Karl Marx a Satanist? And I thought, who is this person? Mazin says of Ted Cruz. Even in 1988, he was politically extreme in a way that was surprising to me.
And also:
In addition to Mazin and Leitch, several fellow classmates who asked that their names not be used described the young Cruz with words like abrasive, intense, strident, crank, and arrogant. Four independently offered the word creepy, with some pointing to Cruzs habit of donning a paisley bathrobe and walking to the opposite end of their dorms hallway where the female students lived.
And, in a quote that holds just as true today, Mazin said he wouldnt be voting for the guy for president: I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone. I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.
http://theslot.jezebel.com/fuckin-craig-mazin-an-appreciation-of-ted-cruzs-colleg-1746278435
Hekate
(90,824 posts)He's one of the candidates who is just waiting for Trump to implode -- or maybe for Trump to ask him to be his running mate. Brr!
Photographer
(1,142 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I think you would be hard pressed to find one person on the planet who likes this guy even if they did agree with his politics. He's just a disgusting human being.
Justice
(7,188 posts)"...dont have a rubber shortage in America. Look, when I was in college, we had a machine in the bathroom, you put 50 cents in and voila."
That's right, when asked about whether he wanted to limit women's access to birth control, Cruz said it was nonsense because rubbers are available.
Said democrats were falsely painting conservatives as the "condom police."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ted-cruz-birth-control-dont-rubber-shortage-america/story?id=35501705