I really like Cruz but where had he been a proven leader? Honest question. A senator is not a leader. I’m guessing in his past jobs he led I’d like to know which ones was his strongest so I can point to those as examples.
Solicitor General of Texas. Led a coalition of states to sue over gun rights issues and ObamaCare.
Texas Solicitor General for 51/2 years, managing 4000 employees and 7 lawyers. It was during this time that he argued the cases before the Supreme Court.
Sorry, that should have been 700 lawyers. That’s leadership. Lawyers are like herding cats.
“I really like Cruz but where had he been a proven leader? Honest question. A senator is not a leader.”
He, of course, led the Senate in trying to stop Obamacare. But what people forget is what happened in the House, in Jan, 2014. That month the House Leadership agreed on “Immigration Reform Principles”, which they intended to pass and then reconcile with Marco Rubio’s HORRENDOUS Amnesty Bill that passed the Senate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/us/politics/text-of-republicans-principles-on-immigration.html
Ted Cruz went over there, told the Republicans that their ‘principles’ were a TOTAL SELLOUT and would lead to Obama getting his cherished Amnesty passed. The Republicans ACCEPTED HIS LEADERSHIP and that was the end of any serious effort to pass Amnesty last year.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-house-republicans-immigration-reform
That fits my definition of LEADERSHIP and if we had more of that, this country would be MUCH BETTER.
anyway. try this from Rep Mo Brooks (R-Ala)
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/03/ted_cruz_for_president_he_remi.html
"Ted Cruz has all the makings of a great president should he get elected, On a policy level, on a LEADERSHIP level, he reminds me of Ronald Reagan in a lot of different ways."
Brooks expounded in his comparison of Cruz to Reagan - a favorite hero of the Republican Party.
"Ronald Reagan was the entire package that you'd want in a president," Brooks said. "He was a lot like John F. Kennedy - those being probably the two foremost presidents from each party over the last 60 years. Ronald Reagan, very charismatic, very principled and had the oratorical skills necessary to help people understand why we should follow the direction that Reagan was leading. Ted Cruz is very similar to Ronald Reagan in all of those respects.
"If you remember, Ronald Reagan in 1980 was portrayed in the Republican primary and in the general election as a right-wing nut by the news media, by Democrats and by his Republican foes in the primary. But once he was elected and he took office, his dedication to America and the principles that made us who we are - the greatest nation in world history - came to the surface. And that's the kind of leadership ability that Ted Cruz has."