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" Back in December, possibly because its editors were sockless drunk on egg nog, Time Magazine let David von Drehle write the following about Tailgunner Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas.  It is almost universally accepted among our political elite that, love him or hate him, Ted Cruz is a very smart guy and a genuine intellect. Some of the reviews follow: Television lawyer Alan Dershowitz:  Tom Rogan, USA Today:  Mother Jones:  (A brief intermission -- Robert George is a highly credentialed theocratic kook, but Ryan is indeed a charlatan, so George may be right here. We continue.) Josh Marshall&amp;#039;s school chums:  Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker:  Over the last two days, the Tailgunner has put his off-the-charts intellect to interesting use. First, he argued that repealing the Citizens United ruling would enable the federal government to take Saturday Night Live off the air and declare political satire to be illegal, which is just nutty. Then he went before an audience of Christians of Middle East origins and got booed off the stage. I shudder to think what he might have done had he not been so off-the-charts brilliant. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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