So, are you a Bolshevik, or a Menshevik?

[Hortensis]

29. Remember, a big reason Cruz is so dangerous is that he is very,

very smart -- brilliant -- and very well educated. He graduated cum laude from Princeton and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, was an editor of the Law Review -- and other very high-prestige competitive positions on legal journals!, and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist. He wasn't very well liked in school, apparently, and regarded by some as odd and obnoxious, but that hasn't stopped him from going very far indeed.

I suspect, being The Anointed One, that he thought the religious right was his to pick up, not Carson's, but he'll be working on that.

In any case, my guess is Cruz could lecture off the cuff about mensheviks for several minutes without pausing. Widen it to Russian history in general, and no telling how long we'd be sitting there.