If the test is IQ, Ted Cruz is light years ahead of Donald Trump. If the test is honesty, humility, conservative bona fides, and basic decency, Donald Trump is not even in the same league with Ted Cruz.
Posted on 01/30/2016 11:01:13 PM PST by justlittleoleme
You know, the emerging conservative leader in the US Senate- same one the GOP old-guard spent million$ trying to defeat- that one:
Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, and had the longest tenure in Texas history.
Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm's U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
Described as a 'superb' constitutional lawyer, the man's considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all last week when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him answer the frickin question.
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%... he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
AWARDS: "America's Leading Lawyers for Business," Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) "50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America," National Law Journal (2008) "25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century," Texas Lawyer (2010) "20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise," Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have Obamacare repealed root-and-branch...
Like The Great One Mark Levin says, re. this new wave of stand-straight-up patriots -TC, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, et. al: 'They're not perfect, nobody is- but they're damn good'.
WTH are you babbling about?
If the test is IQ, Ted Cruz is light years ahead of Donald Trump. If the test is honesty, humility, conservative bona fides, and basic decency, Donald Trump is not even in the same league with Ted Cruz.
He's a ticket puncher who jumped through all the right hoops to be part of the power crowd, that's all. It's a lie that "they" "hate" him for his principles or even "hate" him at all. "They" know he's a lawyer so he can always rephrase or tap dance around a principle.
The bigger dogs want to smack him down for trying to break in line ahead of others who have jumped through all the hoops and gotten there first, that's all. As soon as he rolls over in submission a few more times like he did on TPA and the Ryan budget they'll let him up and give him an appropriately sized share.
Even the feral dogs in DC seldom go for an outright kill of a submissive fellow feral dog. Only the dogs that try to protect a few of the sheep or who want to clean the easy to feed on carrion out of the halls of Congress are killed.
The sad fact is that Ted is cut from the same cloth as John Edwards, just with a different set of hoops he's jumped though because there's less competition among lawyers to go for the Republican side of the coin than there is for the Democrat side of the coin.
Wealthy guys, including the wealthiest, who didn't like the globalist strategy of the British Empire along with smugglers, rouges, and rascals, and criminals, started and won the revolution that created this country.
The past sixty years of our history proves that no one but that same sort will do anything but treat this country like every globalist empire treats its colonies; like a bunch of children who only exist to serve the empire.
People blathering about Jefferson and complaining about the unpolished outsiders better wake up and realize that we're at the point of taking Jefferson's advice and will refresh the tree of Liberty one way or another.
I searched the resume carefully, but I did not see anywhere how he has satisfied the Constitutional requirement for President. That mandatory job qualification needs to be number one on the list.
Thanks for posting this. What it prove is that Ted Cruz has no experience in his background that qualifies him to be a good president. Supreme Court justice maybe.
I am on the fence about who I will vote for, Trump or Cruz.
I have all the questions any sane conservative would have about him.
What really ticks me off about Cruz is that he has been face to face with Trump in these debates AND HAS NOT HIT TRUMP HARD on any of the issues conservatives want to really know about from Trump before we find out the hard way after the election. Ted Cruz has no one to blame for this but himself. And we all may suffer for it.
Love Ted Cruz and his excellent resume - but - and I have this problem with most candidates - that’s thin on private sector substance. I don’t know how you can effectively run the Executive Branch (read: Regulation and Bureaucracy and Budget and Efficiency) without leadership experience in business. Someone like Rubio has NEVER had a job making Cruz look like Trump. Fiorina has the experience but the tell is she’s failed. Carson has some but his direct reports were all geniuses in their own right, an easier group to lead.
....when I said ‘him’, I meant Trump.
In other words- there is no “perfect” candidate so go with the one you have the most values with. Who might be the guy/gal who might show some resolve to get the job done with moral character and won’t sell the American people down the river.
Good old fashion God and Country values might be the winning ticket.
***disclaimer- one can still pray that people do the right thing.
Maybe because he doesn't want to be confused with the other ninja turtles. Seriously, I know a lot of people who prefer either their middle name or a derivative nickname based on their middle name. Big deal.
Unreal. IIRC, Ted has been married once, unlike some other folks we know...
It is nteresting that your rational comment was greeted with a graphic offering you Kool-aid. It is refreshing that you have chosen not to partake.
You’re definitely correct on the wild ride part. I’d rather have Ted’s.
With the Donald we get; no moral compass, no ethical grounding, no ideological or philosophical moorings, and a narcissism that makes Obummer look positively humble.
That is a train with no ties, track or spikes. Executive experience or not, Cruz is still the only real conservative in this race. It is amazing to see how someone who has been a conservative standard bearer, and cheered here, is now public enemy number one of a lot of Freepers.
I’ll pull the lever for Donald in November if that is the only anti demoncrap choice. I will be rueing the long list of actual, bona fide conservative Candidates we have had in years.
In Iowa for being brilliant Lawyer he broke elction law
________________________________________
TRUMP [on Larry King Show (2009), referring to the then newly elected communist president]: "Well, I really like him. I think that he's working very hard. He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. I mean, we really have lost a lot of reputation in the world. The previous administration [GW Bush] was a total disaster, a total catastrophe."
And I'm not saying I agree with everything he's doing. I do agree with what they're doing with the banks. Whether they FUND THEM or NATIONALIZE them, it doesn't matter, but you have to keep the banks going."
Meanwhile...
TRUMP: Vladimir Putin's praise is 'a great honor'
Business Insider ^ | December 17, 2015 | By Maxwell Tani
Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.
He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
________________________________________
"I think that I would probably get along with him [Putin] very well."
--Donald Trump, CBS' Face The Nation, Oct 2015
*******************************************************************
Meanwhile again...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.
Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.
Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.
In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
_______________________________________________________________________
BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015
Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.
Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.
Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/
*******************************************************************
"Trump's relationship with Russia goes far back. In 1987, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was meeting with Soviet officials and negotiating the building of "luxury hotels" in Moscow and Leningrad .
A story at the time said Trump had met Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who mentioned how much his daughter had admired the "opulent" Trump Tower in New York City. This led to an invitation to Trump to visit the USSR. The story said Dubinin wrote a letter to Trump, who hosted a meeting with Soviet officials in New York.
The invitation to Moscow was issued by Intourist, the giant Soviet in-country travel organization which operated all the hotels for foreigners in the Soviet Union.
Intourist was created in 1929 by Joseph Stalin and run by KGB officials. Intourist hotels were designed for wealthy foreigners, and virtually all the Intourist guides were KGB informers. In fact, one aspect of their jobs was the recruitment of foreigners. ..."
"...we are left thinking [whether] Trump understands the aggressive intentions of Vladimir Putin.
"...when Trump was asked about the nuclear balance with Russia during the most recent Republican presidential debate, he displayed ignorance of the decaying nature of the U.S. nuclear triad, which constitutes our ability to deter and survive a Russian nuclear first strike.
"Putin has just presided over a ceremony honoring the KGB's successor agencies, and the Russia Today (RT) propaganda channel has announced the grand opening of a "cultural center" dedicated to mass murderer Joseph Stalin.
It looks like Putin has outmaneuvered Obama and Trump. It is an opening for Trump's opponents, especially Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL). But do they have the courage to "follow the money" and hold Trump accountable for doing business with a criminal regime that threatens the survival of the United States? At the end of this money trail, they may find an explanation of why Trump is so reluctant to hold Putin responsible for his crimes.
Follow Trump's Money to Moscow
Renew America ^ | December 25, 2015 | Cliff Kincaid
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/151225
The koolaid is refreshing only when not drunk
Washington insider? Do you even know how long he has been in Washington? Do you think anyone else on that debate podium could argue before the SCOTUS?? The things said about Cruz are silly.
Vote for the candidate of your choice but give credit to someone who has character and caring for your Constitution and your country. Thank you Ted Cruz.
I may not agree politically with your choice but I will give him credit for the abilities and work he has done.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.