Quote:Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had an epic response to Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif, Tuesday after the House lawmaker offered a bet to the senator on the Dallas Cowboys-San Francisco 49ers game.

Swalwell wrote in a tweet he was going to propose an “open bet” to Cruz.

“If the @dallascowboys beat the @49ers I won’t tweet for the rest of January. If the @49ers win you can’t tweet for rest of January. How Texan are you, Ted? Deal?” he wrote.

Cruz responded, “How about we bet a Chinese dinner instead?”

The “Chinese dinner” zinger was a reference to a controversy Swalwell got wrapped up in a few years ago with a Chinese national named Fang Fang or Christine Fang.

Intelligence officials told Axios at the time that Fang used campaign fundraising, networking, rallies and romantic relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors to gain proximity to political power.

Fang reportedly took part in fundraising for Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign, although she did not make donations nor was there evidence of illegal contributions.

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Cruz does have a pretty good sense of humor. Sarcastic, I like it.

Had he shown more of that and less of the deadly seriousness ALL the time the '16 thing may well have gone his way. Kill them with kindness (and wit).

Wonder where we'd be today had that happened?

The most intelligent sound ever to come out of Swallwell's body was a fart.

(01-20-2023 08:04 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  The most intelligent sound ever to come out of Swallwell's body was a fart.

I dig Ted and voted for him in the 2016 primary. He's got balls when he's willing to use them.

(01-20-2023 08:08 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(01-20-2023 08:04 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  The most intelligent sound ever to come out of Swallwell's body was a fart.

I dig Ted and voted for him in the 2016 primary. He's got balls when he's willing to use them.

Didn’t he end up following the guy who talked **** about his wife in front of the nation? Are those balls also retractable?

(01-21-2023 01:34 AM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(01-20-2023 08:08 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(01-20-2023 08:04 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  The most intelligent sound ever to come out of Swallwell's body was a fart.

I dig Ted and voted for him in the 2016 primary. He's got balls when he's willing to use them.

Didn’t he end up following the guy who talked **** about his wife in front of the nation? Are those balls also retractable?

He did at the time what was right by his country and by his constituents in Texas. Would reacting publicly to the personal insult have made any difference, aside from rewarding Donald Trump for the underhanded behavior and subjecting his own family to even more uncalled-for attention?

I did not support Ted Cruz in the 2016 primaries. And he is not now within the top ten of those I would like to see leading the Republican ticket in 2024. But he has more integrity in his little finger than Donald Trump has in his entire soul.

And far more than most any America-hating Democrat.