Ted Cruz’s college roommate recalls his creepy habits

Getting emails blaming me for not smothering Ted Cruz in his sleep in 1988. What kind of monster do you think I am? A really prescient one? Getting emails blaming me for not smothering Ted Cruz in his sleep in 1988. What kind of monster do you think I am? A really prescient one? Image 1 of / 48 Caption Close Ted Cruz’s college roommate recalls his creepy habits 1 / 48 Back to Gallery

Apparently some people feel so strongly about Ted Cruz that they are emailing his one-time college roommate faulting him for not killing Cruz when he could.

Screenwriter Craig Mazin and the future Republican presidential candidate were paired together as freshmen at Princeton in 1988. And Mazin has never forgotten it.

Nor does he make any secret of loathing Cruz. He delights in tweeting embarrassing details about his roommie’s hygiene, his problems with women and his general creepiness.

Mazin, who penned the scripts for “The Hangover Part 2” and its sequel, told The Daily Beast: “I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone. I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.”

In freshman-year recollection to the Daily Beast, Mazin said Cruz “had a habit of hanging out near girls’ rooms in a paisley robe. He said dorm residents often asked him to keep Cruz out of the hallway.

The following tweets give a clue to just how deeply Cruz damaged Mazin’s psyche during that year at Princeton.

Mazin’s views toward Cruz only hardened after the right-wing conservative announced his candidacy as you can see by the tweets above.