Posted on 03/24/2015 3:59:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Feerhy’s CV simply shows he came up through the ranks of The Combine (chicago’s political wing of La Cosa Nostra).
Fox News has been on board The Cheap Labor Express for a while now. Anyone who opposes amnesty is going to get unfavorable treatment. It”s all about the amnesty.
as you illustrate, ideology affects competence.
With the wrong idelogy, even the most “experienced” will appear incompetent.
The Fox meme is that EXPERIENCE = COMPETENCE, and this trumps ideology, character, leadership.
The concept that only a Governor should be our next President started circulating months ago, I say for the very reason that the GOPe knew Cruz would run, and they used the example of Obama to give this idea credence. Their argument is superficial and they believe it will be swallowed.
Remember Reagan! The republican establishment, i.e. Rockafeller wing including Prescott Bush’s boy and Jerry Ford were certain the mainstream media and democrats were correct. Reagan was a dolt. He was a grade b actor and uneducated ignoramous who was too conservativea and too provincial to be president.
Cruz may not win as he has legitimate strong conservative competition. He has a better chance of winning than Jeb or some other establishment republican candidate. The grass roots will not support another Rhino.
“Seventeen presidents* (almost 40%) had previously held office as chief executive of a state..”
Go Cruz!!
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I’d rather go down in flames with a Ted Cruz than soar into DC on the wings of a Jeb Bush.
“Why should Cruz be President? Let us count the ways...
Pretty impressive...
• 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, not to mention 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 when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn 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 root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
I like Cruz a lot. I am not aware of anything substantive on which I don't agree with him. If he gets the nomination I will enthusiastically support him.
But I still don't think he can win in the general. There just aren't enough small government conservatives left in the national electorate.
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