"Ted Cruz has an intellectual contempt for eveyone in the room,"

[Ilsa]

he thinks he's smarter than everyone else, and he shows it." --- Mike Barnicle and the rest of the Morning Joe panel. They briefly spoke of him with disgust after showing his failure to discredit Yates during her questioning.

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Failure to discredit is too kind...

I'd say he got his ass handed to him and is just too ignorant to realize it.

[Ilsa]

7. The crew's metaphor: Cruz lobbed a curveball at her that failed

to break and she knocked it out of the park.

I thought it was more like brass knuckles to the testicles. He hobbled back to the senate building bent over, chewing ibuprofen.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. Brass knuckles to the testicles...

I choked on my coffee a bit but it was worth it!

[Ilsa]

13. Here's a different visual:

https://t.co/cpINPm6Ldb
(

Link to tweet

?s=03)

[Nitram]

19. Steel toed boot to the groin.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Mmmm. Hair.

[greymattermom]

3. I've known a lot of really smart people

I have a PhD from MIT, so I've met a few smart people. The smartest don't have to tell you. Since they are always asking questions and trying to understand things, they know how much is unknown.

[redstatebluegirl]

6. My husband has a doctorate as well.

He always says if he has to tell people he has one it isn't worth much.

[Ilsa]

9. First of all...

PhD- MIT -- wicked cool.

Cruz's ego is delicate like wet tissue paper, or he'd understand your point, "The smartest don't have to tell you."

[BumRushDaShow]

4. He needs to stick to reading Dr. Seuss. nt

[Ilsa]

10. He can't even figure when Suess is appropriate. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

14. For his party, NONE of it would be appropriate!

(which is what is hilarious and why he should stick to reading it because he would just be attacking himself)

[ehrnst]

5. That passes as "purity" and "constancy" in politicians these days among many. (nt)

[Whiskeytide]

11. It was especially obtuse ...

... since he had just seen her tear Cornyn a new one when he tried the same BS. How bad a debater are you when you're too stupid to recognize - "oh, she's got a pretty good comeback on that one, maybe I should scratch through that question on my list". Dumbass.

[Ilsa]

12. And she delivered it temperately. nt

[yurbud]

15. He must be hanging out with some pretty dim bulbs if he thinks he's smartest

although since today's GOP is essentially Charles Manson with a shave, haircut, and suit, he probably is a lot of the time.

[NCjack]

16. If Cruz is so smart, why is he a crummy senator? nt

[berksdem]

17. Ol' Ted

got his ass handed to him by Yates!

[malaise]

18. Well Sally Yates brought him back to earth

with one hell of a crash landing yesterday. Her slap in the face response was a thing of beauty.

[NastyRiffraff]

20. And everyone has contempt for Ted Cruz

Intellectual and otherwise. Sally Yates took out her scalpel yesterday and disembowled him.