Given the negative correlation between IQ and conservatism, it is ironic that Ted Cruz, perhaps the most conservative presidential candidate running, might also be the smartest.
According to the Boston Globe:
Interviews with more than two dozen alumnae and professors fill in a portrait of Cruz, in Cambridge two decades ago, that would be fully recognizable to those who know him now in Washington. He made a lasting impression as someone both arrogant and pretentious, as well as someone unwilling to yield or compromise.
But he was also universally respected for his intellect, described by friend and foe alike as brilliant but with a hard edge…Cruz studied public policy at Princeton, where he developed a reputation as a quick-witted national debate champion. His near-perfect score on the LSAT helped him fulfill a dream of going to Harvard Law School.
Although the LSAT probably correlates very imperfectly with official IQ tests, a near-perfect score would equate to a towering IQ of around 145. But it seems Cruz not only had a high IQ, he (like me) was fascinated with IQ:
As they were entering their second year in law school, Melissa Hart agreed to give Cruz a ride from New York, where Cruz was at the end of the summer, back to Cambridge. She didn’t know him well, but he sought her out after she had been given a prestigious award for first-year students.
“We hadn’t left Manhattan before he asked my IQ,” Hart said. “When I told him I didn’t know, he asked, ‘Well, what’s your SAT score? That’s closely coordinated with your IQ.’ ”
“It went from, ‘Nice guy,’ ” she said, “to ‘uh-oh.’ ”
Sounds like he was looking for some woman on campus with high IQ genes that he could mate with.
And if GQ magazine can be believed, it sounds like Cruz had such high academic standards that not even other Harvard Law student were good enough for him unless they had the right academic background:
As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn’t been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz’s law-school roommates: “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown.”
Cruz denies this, and you certainly can’t believe everything the media reports, especially about about a polarizing Republican presidential candidate.
Although Cruz is an evangelical Christian, he looks a bit Ashkenazi and is very passionate about Israel. If Cruz indeed has Ashkenazi genes, they may not only have dramatically boosted his IQ, but influenced his politics on a subconscious level.
Pumpkin Person 
Sounds kinda like an asshat… nothing wrong with wanting to know SAT/IQ scores of prospective mates but he could’ve been a little more tactful. And he acts like Harvard, Yale and Princeton confer some kind of elite status on attendees regardless of their actual abilities.
Perhaps he was thinking that if you didn’t go to Harvard/Yale/Princeton as an undergrad, it was because your SAT scores weren’t high enough.
And yes he did seem lacking in tact for a future politician. If someone tells you they don’t know their IQ, it’s probably because they don’t want to tell you so to persist is a bit odd. It also makes the woman feel like a lab rat being studied…not a romantic object of desire. Not surprised it scared her off.
Not that I’m one to judge…I used to go around actually giving IQ tests to random women, but they were like fun games so women found it charming.
I’m not trying to be judgmental either since I generally ask my mates at some point or another what their SAT score was (if I can’t derive it from what I know about their personal/educational experiences), but most chicks don’t care about that kind of thing, even the smart ones. You can just come off as goofy or insecure if you seem like you care too much.
“Converts of any religion are probably smarter” lol look the djihadist there is a bunch of whites criminels into there rank
Rafael cruz, the father of Ted cruz, is probably smarter.
1. His father converted from Catholicism. I suspect converts from any religion have a higher iq than the average member of both faiths.
2. The father became a pastor and had a large church despite having the last name cruz.
3. Rafael cruz was also an ex communist .
4. Rafael cruz owned a successful business in the oil industry despite not being white.
5. He married an intelligent white woman which means he had to compensate for his “Hispanicness” with a high iq (Looking at the iq of mixed white Caribbean kids in the uk, having an iq of 101 means the Caribbean parent must have been smarter than the white parent)
Ted Cruz’s dad was a White Hispanic of Cuban descent. Is there any surprise to you that Cubans (who are mostly of direct Spanish lineage) do better than other groups of Hispanics who are a hodge podge of racial mixtures?
There is a caste system in America/Canada that sees Hispanics as foreigners/incompetent, especially at the top, regardless of how white one looks.
The caste system in America is a joke, and shouldn’t even be taken serious!
What really trumps everything in America is money and the Ivy League. Just make sure being a black person is not what you’re made of.
Unattractive prole Jews control a large sector of America, which is why a very White looking Hispanic, who is also Cuban, Rick Sanchez, got dinged at his job for saying that Jews do exactly that!
Cruz is a moron, but it is still little appreciated today how very rich (relatively) Latin America’s whiter countries were 100 years ago…and that, despite their political instability/coups d’etats.
Remarque remarks in his Heaven Has No Favorites how immediatley after the war all the rich people are Latin American.
and in favor of HBD and the Alfred Rosenberg theory of history, there’s one simple, though perhaps simplistic, explanation…
Latin America has become less white.
afaik there is no discrimination against un-mixed Europeans from Latin America in the US. afaik there is discrimination in favor as:
1. they are or are thought to be smarter than other Latin Americans and can serve AA goals without harm.
2. NW European Americans still think of unmixed European Latin Americans as aristocratics…your dad owns a banana plantation or a latifundia/hacienda/a cattle ranch the size of Connecticut/etc.
and in fact, there is an aristocratic culture in Latin America such that work is not valued. it’s not me saying it it’s Amy Chua and Paul Theroux and Hernando de Soto Polar…Latin America’s ruling class is lazy.
who wouldn’t be when blood is all that matters, when “hard-work” is irrelevant.
and JS is exactly right.
sanchez was fired for stating THE TRUTH. but the guillotine would have fallen even faster had he been a NW European. so pervasive is jewish media control that it affects the acceleration of gravity…so to speak…get people glued to their tvs and ipads and radios and magazines and newspapers and control what they see…and you can make them think anything.
just try to edit a wikipedia article on the jews or Israel..with multiple references and no vulgarity…there’s a horde of jewish editors who’ll ban you for totally invented reasons…(don’t trust me. trust a jewgle/or bing search on such behavior by jews.)
there’s something in jews that they must control the message whenever it relates to jews.
Unz was invited to speak at Yale Law School. what did he NOT speak of…which was in his original article? I can guess.
oliver stone is half jewish. he and Gary Oldman and Marlin Brando aren’t paranoid. not in the least.
but so tight is the grip. their remarks are labeled “anti-semitic” and thus evil and paranoid (and thus false?). they all groveled afterwards.
has Gibson groveled? i hope not.
jorge is a self-hating Hispanic.
Italian, Spaniard, and Spanish Mexican…
but Germany wins!!!
and Mugabe is a dumb black guy.
he meant to post this…by Italian, Spaniard, and Spanish Mexican:
notice how the Italian is so much better!!!
and fatter.
Unmixed Euro Latin Americans are rare, with the exception of Cuba, and to a certain extent Puerto Rico. Ricky Martin is 1/8th black, but it’s hardly discernible. He looks like someone from Spain, or the Mediterranean (his ancestry is mostly from Corsica).
Even the Whitest of Latin Americans, has a drop of Native blood, and there is nothing wrong if you very White. They call these individuals Castizo (80% White, 20% Native).
jorge is a self-hating Hispanic.
and Mugabe is a dumb black guy.
Hahahaha, you’re a lunatic! You’re the same person, you even write the same!
That’s his shtick it seems
If we are talking about IQ :
Nordics > Mediterraneans
have you been to Argentina JS?
have you been to Rio Grande do Sul?
there are lots and lots, at least 100 million totally unmixed European Latin Americans.
and they exist in all Latin American countries except perhaps Honduras.
they own everything. and when they aren’t politicians they are the puppet masters.
and JS rings the bell again regarding the jews’ total lack of aesthetic sense.
the following is the most anti-semitic commercial/speech/whatever ever made (even if it was made by jews):
Jews do well in America because of its new found prolish legacy and 2nd rate status. Just because they dug themselves a hole and became the most successful group in a 2nd tier nation at best, after the fall of Eurot, whose legacy and achievements are 100X greater than those of Jews, only people in America and non-Whites would really want to emulate and admire.
Correct, quite a number of Argentinians are pure bred Euros, but that’s a recent phenomenon. Only about 50% of the population of Videla’s nation is White, majority Mestizo, and many White Euros from Latin America has a remote Amerindian ancestor that botches up their genetic makeup. No White Euro in Latin America gives a damn if you’re passably White. That’s good enough, unlike here in America, where pure bred Irish and Italians are still considered not WASPY enough for the Anglos. Jews being more distance genetically, are more accepted among Anglo circles than people who are more genetically related to them. Only in America, where everything is a half assed joke.
What an ignorant, racist comment!! None of what you just said has ANY base in reality. Cubans are better than the rest of the hispanics because their linneage is white?! First of all, you will find by far a larger mix of cultures and in the Caribbean than anywhere else in Latin America because of their strategical placement as the door to the Americas. This does not only mean Africans being brought in for slave trade, but Europeans from different backgrounds including Dutch, French, Portuguese, German, British, Italian, Spanish (who brought with them their Jewish and Muslim heritage as they were being chased out by Christians), not to mention that there were Aboriginal tribes living there like the Tainos and the Caribes. In fact, there is probably more racial mixture in the Caribbean than anywhere else in the Americas, so much that it should be considered its own race at this point. There is pride in that! There is no pride in preserving a race intact. There is no pride in hate!
Now, I know you really need to tell yourself that the guy you’re about to vote for isn’t a spic mutt, but if you haven’t gotten over Obama in 8 years…
If direct spanish leaneage make people smarter. Then all the hispanic speaking countries should be doing better. Those countries has been ruled by that very class of people. Brazil was raised to a better economic status with Lula de Silva who is neither one. Direct Spanish lineage from Spain is not the best gens to have for raw intelligence. Therefore, I think Cruz may have jewish gens.
Although Cruz is an evangelical Christian, he looks a bit Ashkenazi and is very passionate about Israel. I
his father is Cuban. But the observation that he looks Ashkenazi is interesting. The ‘Nordic/n. European’ phenotype tend to be recessive. http://www.sciencebrainwaves.com/blogs/biology/genetics/dominant-and-recessive-genes-in-humans/ That’s why everyone who isn’t squarely Oriental, European or African kinda looks the same or interchangeable. A Jew kinda looks like an Arab, who kinda looks like a Hispanic etc.
A 140-150 IQ seems right
There were tens of thousands of Jews in Cuba. They’re called Jubanos.
Also one doesn’t have to belong to a certain ethnic group to feel connected to them…merely looking a lot like them can inspire altruism. This is known as a green beard genetic effect.
You guys are sidetracking the discussion into non-sense.
First of all, a lot of Spaniards have a tinge of Jewish ancestry. Not Ashkenazi, but Sephardic. Then you have people in the Mediterranean, and they all share similar facial features. Ashkenazi have “Armenoid” features, which are similar to people of Southern Europe.
but they can’t do pop music worth a tinker’s damn compared the the British and some other NW Europeans…like Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Handel,…
philosphy is greek and german.
bel canto, fado, and flamenco are shit…compared to this:
etc. etc. etc.
this is pure speculation. there is no evidence that he is a akshenazi.
ashkenazi? were cuba’s jews ashkenazi?
anyway pp is so fucking impressionable. she believes in santa clause and in jew movies about jews in cuba.
cuba’s jewish population was never even 100, let alone tens of thousands.
Here is a movie about Jews in Cuba:
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/jubanos_the_jews_of_cuba
I don’t know whether it’s credible or not.
“jubanos”
Look like a joke 😀
If we are talking about IQ :
Nordics > Mediterraneans
Green beard effects:
http://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Green-beard_effect.html
Although the LSAT probably correlates very imperfectly with official IQ tests
Any actual evidence that the correlation isn’t high?
I believe the account of Cruz’s attitude, but his attitude is nothing special for his environment.
Because of the curve, he probably felt like he already had such a large edge on individuals who didn’t go to Ivy-league undergraduate institutions that they weren’t worth paying attention to. So, he probably focused on studying with the most elite students, to try and get an edge on them and thus establish or preserve his rank.
“official” IQ tests correlate “very imperfectly” with official IQ tests.
he knows a lot about this http://voxday.blogspot.com.tr/2008/09/barack-obamas-iq-is-116_18.html
i get it.
pp is a canuckistani.
she doesn’t understand america and its elite unis.
she takes brand names at face value.
she doesn’t get that the US is a Twilight Zone episode/1984 for real.
merca fools the world again.
twinkies, big macs, kfc, taco bell are bad for your health pp.
Pumpkin, what is your opinion on this Kevin Mitchell piece on eugenics:http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2013/05/the-new-eugenics-same-as-old-eugenics.html ?
Mitchell also argues that genes found in GWAS / GCTA don’t have additive effect even for the ones we just found, like CADM1 (for mental processing) http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2013/07/no-gene-is-island.html
He’s making an ethical policy based argument. I’m just interested in the science of HBD, not the political ethical implications.
Did you read closely? he claims that we don’t have the technical abilities for eugenics
Kevin Orff is very unintelligent and he sucks Jared Taylor’s pénis.
Hey Pumpkin can you estimate the IQ of half black and half white/asian people ?
I ask you this because I have heard of something called heterosis which make hybrids better in all physiologicals aspects than expected.
Normally hybrids average in between the two parent races (assuming the parents and kids were all reared in the same country and there’s no extreme environmental differences between the races in said country).
If there’s a hybrid vigour effect, you may want to add about 4 IQ points (as seen in white-East Asian hybrids in Hawaii), but in most of the studies I’ve seen, heterosis isn’t found…(perhaps because the mixing races weren’t pure enough?).
How about Cruz’ head size?
Cruz’s fucktard.
You are a big boy, see by yourself.
Cruz probably inherited a large head from his mongoloid ancestors. Cruz probably has Native American blood…In this picture he almost appears to have the epicanthic fold
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2013/11/10/ted-cruz-was-polarizing-figure-harvard-law-foreshadowing-his-partisan-profile-senate/gEUPs0iVgOyoidafkNe94H/story.html
If you fill a large Native American brain with Jewish genes for neurological efficiency, a very high IQ might result,
I have a huge brain and a huge benga.
I am fucking superior.
LOLOLOL !!!
Pp is suppressing the shameful comments !!!
I fuckin cant stop laughing 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
The Steve Sailor’s commenters are shrewd and street smart.
Here is the EXACT OPPOSITE.
Just a bunch of nolife teenagers.
You’re not Robert Lindsay, but yes Steve Sailer has a great comment section:
https://pumpkinperson.com/2015/03/20/steve-sailer-has-the-best-commenters/
My name is Robert Lindsay but I’m not the one you think about.
By the way Robert Lindsay’s blog is quiet interessant but concerning hbd yours is more precise and you are more rationnal. Robert have a too feminin brain (more emotionnal).
You are more autistic than him (don’t say you are, I could have say he is more schizophrenic than you),
He still have an IQ of 147 with great verbal score.
What about you ? What is your IQ ?
Pumpkin who is the smartest actual american politician in your opinion ?
(not your political opinion but objectively of course 😉 )
I think it’s Ted Cruz or Clinton
Robert Lindsay is awesome.
an impecunious gentleman.
a trustifarian in the barrio.
the very little i’ve read of him i agree on everything.
Lindsay reminds me of Soros’s chart of conglomerate share price vs earnings.
status in the US increases up to a point with ones perceived intelligence, but only up to a point..after which one’s “share price” declines and one’s earnings decline with it.
it’s what Soros (a Jew) terms “reflexivity”.
but even if SSA never develops (which i think is IMPOSSIBLE btw), i don’t think that would say anything about the ability of SSAs.
Herr Professor Doktor Doktor Hsu ran into a white Namibian in China.
what did that German or Portuguese or British or Boer Namibian have to say about black Africans?
he said they were just as smart as Europeans. but because (black Namibians are rarely natives. like ZA, they’re almost all Bantus. correct me if I’m wrong, please) they’d “evolved” in a place where it was super easy to make a living, they simply weren’t as…
see videos of people on meth.
AND Schneebaum (my GAY and JEWISH hero) makes the same point by quoting a Spanish priest in the Peruvian Amazon on the natives. something like…”How can we civilize them, when all they have to do is stick some taro in the ground and they’re fed…”
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Rose Luxembourg write
”There is no pride in preserving a race intact. There is no pride in hate!”
Just observing…
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Interesting moment in the Republican debate last night: http://tinyurl.com/p7k7eq6
I watched the event on live TV, and when Cruz came on, I could scarcely believe how effortlessly he took 10-15 minutes of preceding debate, condensed it, and released it in a flow of crowd-winning words. The 145 you postulated doesn’t seem like a stretch. I may not have met as many 3+ SD IQ people as you have, but I’ve had the privilege of knowing 2 individuals in the 145-155 range, and what I saw from Cruz last night reflects well their verbal talents. Of all the candidates, only Rubio and Fiorina come close (they arguably match him in ability, if not honed skill).
Blogger LOTB has said many times Rubio is out of his depth & in over his head. I don’t find him any dumber than the average presidential candidate but he did attend crappy colleges & LOTB gives that a lot of weight.
No disrespect to LotB, but having spoken personally with Rubio on multiple occasions, and having followed his political career closely (I volunteered for his campaign when he was still double digits bellow Charlie Crist in the 2010 Florida senate race), I think LotB has misjudged him here.
You like to define “intelligence” as the ability to adapt, to turn situations to your advantage. In that respect, Rubio is extraordinarily talented. Despite being the most attacked candidate in this past debate, Rubio emerged from the carnage unmarred, and in a perhaps better condition than he entered it.
Let’s compare his ability on his feet to that of some of the other candidates; in this exchange, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-kQNG2uqio
Are Rubio’s lines canned? To some extent, sure. But so was Bush’s line — and yet Rubio managed to eviscerate Bush, and humanize himself in the process. And he pulls it off every single time.
On a final note — it’s dangerous to judge too much of a person’s intelligence based on the selectiveness of their education. Let’s take Secretary Kerry, for example. Kerry went to Yale, while Rubio went to UF and Miami Law. It’d be easy to assume that Kerry is the smarter gentleman, except for that, while Kerry was a C-average, Rubio graduated with distinguished honors. That’s gotta count for something.
This quote from Gingrich just popped up on my newsfeed — reminded me of the above conversation.
Newt Gingrich: “Rubio is very smart and very fast,” he said on the subject of Bush and Rubio’s debate clash. “You don’t want to pick a fight with a guy like that unless you’re prepared to stick in the ring with him.”
Kerry has an IQ of 117 if I correctly remember the analysis Steve Sailer did. You PERSONALLY spoke to Rubio?
I have nothing against the guy, but I would never endorse him. Too much of a neocon puppet.
Personally, yes. I volunteered for his senate campaign, and attended a number of his more tight knit barnstorming events. These particular encounters occurred when he was still a relative nobody, polling at less than 5% in the senate race. Speaking to him for a few minutes would have been nothing too special, had he been none too special. As it happens, he is.
I absolutely do not doubt that Cruz is very, very smart. He may even be as smart as Obama.
I’m not a doctor, but I’m fairly well convinced Cruz is also a psychopath; or at least extremely cagey.
He’s a hard-core political animal, masquerading as a principled person. The craft and caginess he brings to that enterprise is a wonder to behold.
He recently promoted a photo-meme on Facebook, asking folks to get all angerfied over the idea of new EPA rules that allow it to regulate puddles. Fact is, the new rules do NOT allow the FDA to regulate puddles, or even private ponds. But it’s a meme guaranteed to get “small government” jackasses (who vote) in a froth.
The whole point is that Cruz is a hard-core proponent of the new electoral politics of pointless, ill- and misinformed anger. He isn’t a leader, he’s an inciter and rabblerouser.
And when I saw him on Colbert, it was obvious that the man’s smart enough to turn on a dime. He tailored his presentation pitch perfect for the smart Colbert crowd. I suspect that crowd follows things closely enough to see he was cleverly modulating his language and filtering his stances; but it was still amazing to see.
All this is a shabby, shameful abuse of a high IQ, if’n youse asks me.
I think the rest of us (the ones who see through his charade) are supposed to feel consoled that, should his ilk win the day, he’ll somehow retrench “back” into a paragon of small-‘r’ republicanism, roll up his sleeves and get down to work administrating a decent republic.
Sorry: I have a principle of my own: I sincerely believe that leaders in a decent republic have to be decent _even_ when they’re electioneering.
He may even be smarter than Obama since her reportedly scored near perfect on the LSAT. I suspect a lot of elite politicians are psychopaths. Wouldn’t surprise me if Cruz was too.
Ted Cruz is much smarter than Obama. We don’t even know Obama’s GPA in college, because they are sealed from the public. Also, Obama always uses a TelePrompTer. I don’t understand why people think Obama is brilliant. I’m not saying Obama isn’t intelligent, but he certainly is being overrated.
People think Obama is brilliant because he
1) Became the first black president in American history. It was unimaginable that a black would be president 20 years ago
2) Was president of the Harvard Law Review
3) Speaks well
4) Expresses opinions that educated people consider enlightened
5) Is considered an excellent writer
1) Became the first black president in American history. It was unimaginable that a black would be president 20 years ago
That was true 40 years ago but definitely not 20 years ago. Had Colin Powell run in 1996 he might’ve done well…
John-Cruz is definitely smarter, but that’s not detracting from Obama, because Cruz is obviously super-smart.
Seems to me like Cruz has a faster thinking speed, that type of thing, but may even be more superficial of a thinker than Obama.
But on the balance Cruz is indeed smarter than Obama.
NPR Yesterday said that Ted Cruz can not be nominated. His mother renounced her American citizenship in Canada before Ted was born. His father is Cuban. If all this is true then Tad Cruz is not eligible to run for President.
I am convinced the only path forward for the United States is to elect someone who believes in human bio-diversity and IQ, but is also black or non-white hispanic in ancestry. They would apply the theories but with great caution/compassion and not use it for evil. Ben didn’t even believe in evolution and made remarks about similarities in racial brains, I saw on the first debate, so he was always out. Ted Cruz’s grandfather was born in North Africa and he believes in the concept of IQ, and it’s genetic ramifications, according to this article, so he’s the best choice.