Good news: Ted Cruz recuses self from having opinions on anything that happened before 1970

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Good news: Ted Cruz recuses self from having opinions on anything that happened before 1970

This is a political trend I'd like to see more of: I wasn't alive then, so don't ask me!

(Q): A third Texas president, L.B.J., created Medicare in the mid-'60s. Your hero Ronald Reagan campaigned vigorously against that, saying it would lead to socialized medicine, would end liberty in the United States. Who was right: L.B.J. or Reagan?

(Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz): It's not worth tilting at windmills. I don't know. I wasn't alive then.

Who was right? Who's to say? That was in the before-times. I have no opinions on the before-times. Now maybe Medicare ended liberty in the United States, maybe it didn't, let's just leave that one to the History Channel to sort out.

The possibilities here are endless. Sen. Ted Cruz, do you think the American Revolution was a good idea or a bad one? Your party tends to mention Hitler a lot—have any thoughts on the fellow? You have spoken endlessly about your father leaving Cuba, but we cannot help but notice you were not alive then—are you sure you are qualified to discuss this?


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