Hate waking up to read about your jerk freshman year roommate running for President.

[madfloridian]

From Ted's roommate Craig Mazin's Twitter page this week:

Craig Mazin, Twitter

Craig MazinVerified account ?@clmazin

Don't you hate it when you wake up and read about your jerk freshman year roommate running for President? We've all been there, right?


Craig Mazin @clmazin · Mar 22

Since it's already begun, to journalists who want to talk to me about Ted Cruz-- respectfully, I've already said everything I had to say.

From the Daily Beast 2013:

Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same

"More than anyone I knew, Ted seemed to have arrived in college with a fully formed worldview,” Butler College colleague Erik Leitch said. “And what strikes me now, looking at him as an adult and hearing the things he's saying, it seems like nothing has changed. Four years of an Ivy League education, Harvard Law, and years of life experience have altered nothing."

While Cruz’s friends from the debate team foresaw a successful career in politics for Cruz, many of the Princeton alums offered that they were deeply troubled by the possibility of Cruz running for president, a notion that one, who did not want to be quoted speaking against a former classmate who is now a senator, called notion “horrifying.”

Craig Mazin said he knew some people might be afraid to speak in the press about a senator, but added of Cruz, “We should be afraid that someone like that has power.”

And the idea that his freshman roommate could someday be the leader of the free world? “I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone,” Mazin said. “I would rather pick somebody from the phone book."

More from Craig Mazin in the New York Magazine 2013

Ted Cruz Was a Smelly, Terrible Roommate

Proud, pretentious American destroyer Ted Cruz has always been a bit difficult. Since elbowing his way into the national consciousness, the Texas Republican has been outed as a hater of "minor Ivies" like Penn and Brown, and is said to have come to Princeton as a 17-year-old with a book titled Was Karl Marx a Satanist? "I would end up fielding the [girls'] complaints: 'Could you please keep your roommate out of our hallway?'" his undergrad roommate at Princeton Craig Mazin told the Daily Beast over the summer. ("I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone," Mazin added. "I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.&quot

Today, Mazin — who just so happens to be the screenwriter behind Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and The Hangover III — took to Twitter to share more stories about his fateful time in a crappy room with Cruz. It's about what you'd expect, but funnier.

[kelliekat44]

1. And a certified racist. nt

[madfloridian]

2. And to announce at Liberty was pretty nervy.

Students required to attend.

[madfloridian]

3. Many classmates would not give their names.

In addition to Mazin and Leitch, several fellow classmates who asked that their names not be used described the young Cruz with words like “abrasive,” "intense," “strident,” “crank,” and “arrogant." Four independently offered the word “creepy,” with some pointing to Cruz’s habit of donning a paisley bathrobe and walking to the opposite end of their dorm’s hallway where the female students lived.

“I would end up fielding the (girls’) complaints: 'Could you please keep your roommate out of our hallway?'" Mazin says

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/ted-cruz-at-princeton-creepy-sometimes-well-liked-and-exactly-the-same.html

[madfloridian]

4. Cruz booed off stage by group of Christians.

He says to them if you will not stand with Israel and the Jews then I will not stand with you.

[lovemydog]

5. Cruz makes some absurd & hostile claims here.

He equates disagreeing with a government's actions with hating the country's people.

I doubt he'll get far in his campaign. That message doesn't fly with most Americans.

[ND-Dem]

7. wtf was that all about (besides ginning up the muslim-hate)? that was very creepy.

Tonight I read someone at du saying that cruz was a good speaker. I don't think he's that good, myself. I'd say he's an adequate speaker.

[uponit7771]

11. If adequate meant memorizing some half thought out slogans and conservative word salad

[ND-Dem]

6. wow. harsh. btw, the probably reason cruz came with a fully formed world view is that

he was indoctrinated from the cradle.

most of us don't have parents who get us into stuff like this:

Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where he learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[29] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[27]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

[madfloridian]

9. Indoctrinated from the cradle.

That's what it takes to produce someone like Cruz.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. "I would rather pick somebody from the phone book."

[lame54]

10. "Navin Johnson. Sounds like a typical son-of-a-bitch to me."...

Navin Johnson for President