Normally, it would hold at least
some water.
But in this particular case, the content of that opinion -- which was unpublished and only relayed indirectly through multiple people - directly contradicted the published opinion of someone who i think was in an even better position to know. You can't reconcile the opinions of Dershowitz and your mom's friend, so it's one or the other.
I don't find the extreme (because that's what it is) claim that Cruz "doesn't believe a bit of what he says" to be plausible. So, given the choice between believing a compliment from a well-known, respected, but ideologically opposed law professor who knew Cruz even earlier, or an third-hand insult from an unnamed and unknown Texas Republican, I go with the former.
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Yes. A law professor will get to know some students much better than others. Cruz was apparently very outspoken, and was not only a Law Review Editor, but the Executive Editor of the Journal of Law and Public Policy. He likely had buttloads of legal/political duscussions with, or at least in front of, Dershowitz.
Not sure if you're familiar with that latter journal, but I've subscribed to it since 1989. It is the foundational journal of the conservative Federalist Society, which is absolutely consistent with Cruz'
current views. The idea that he joined the Federalist Society at Harvard but "didn't really believe a bit of it" is simply ridiculous to me. In fact:
During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where he learned about free-market economic philosophers such asMilton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[32] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[24]
So either Cruz has been conducting this incredible masquerade as a hard-line libertarian conservative since the age of 13, or he's a true believer. I find the latter more plausible. Your view differs. But i've never heard anyone else, at any time, claim that he doesn't believe at least
most of what he says.
Depending upon how memorable a student you were, they'd certainly know if your views are consistent with what you expressed 20 years ago.
What?! No offense cause i think you're a good guy, but that's complete bullshit. Maybe you mis
wrote what you intended to say, but all i did was read what you actually wrote:
Maybe you should have clarified what you meant a bit earlier....
Dude, if you'd have actually written
that, I wouldn't have argued with a word of it.
Look, there aren't many conservatives in these threads, and conservative pols get a lot of shots thrown their way. I was just trying to respond to what I saw as an unfair accusation.
