[2ndDivisionVet]

When he is interviewed by these reporters, it must feel like when a 50 year old mall Santa is talking to the three-year-old on his lap.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Rosetta Stone makes foreign policy discs now.

[shove_it]

To date, sixteen senators have also served as president of the United States. Three senators, Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama moved directly from the U.S. Senate to the White House.
(Photo: Warren G. Harding. Senate Historical Office)

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James Monroe
Senator, 1790-1794
President, 1817-1825

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John Quincy Adams
Senator, 1803-1808
President, 1825-1829

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Andrew Jackson
Senator, 1797-1798; 1823-1825
President, 1829-1837

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Martin Van Buren
Senator, 1821-1828
President, 1837-1841

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William Henry Harrison
Senator, 1825-1828
President, 1841

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John Tyler
Senator, 1827-1836
President, 1841-1845

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Franklin Pierce
Senator, 1837-1842
President, 1853-1857

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James Buchanan
Senator, 1834-1845
President, 1857-1861

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Andrew Johnson
Senator, 1857-1862; 1875
President, 1865-1869

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Benjamin Harrison
Senator, 1881-1887
President, 1889-1893

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Warren G. Harding
Senator, 1915-1921
President, 1921-1923

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Harry S. Truman
Senator, 1935-1945
President, 1945-1953

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John F. Kennedy
Senator, 1953-1960
President, 1961-1963

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Lyndon B. Johnson
Senator, 1949-1961
President, 1963-1969

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Richard M. Nixon
Senator, 1950-1953
President, 1969-1974

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Barack Obama
Senator, 2005-2008
President, 2009- present

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senators_became_president.htm

Most of them are/were Rats.

[Paladin2]

Nice Theory, but the example of Juan disproves it.

[faithhopecharity]

yes and no about senators and good foreign policy skills

i sure wouldn’t include Hillary or McCain, just for starters

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What experience does a Senator have with foreign policy that a governor doesn't?

Senators have a battalion of aides that read/write all of the foreign policy bills that the Senator has to deal with.

Senators appear in the Senate to read speeches written for them by aides/lobbyists.

They manage to agree with those folks that give them the most money.

If they do listen to "intellectuals" it is not the most intelligent or thoughtful, but the most ingratiating and power-hungry, i.e. Neocons.

So Cruz wins. He has little or no taste for domestic issues. He gets bored and lets his Neocon subordinates lead him into starting another war somewhere or other.

Maybe he even "grows" and starts to support some form of ... dare I use that horrible word? ... amnesty for illegal, er, undocumented workers.

After all, that's where the money will have come from if he wins, and where the money will be coming from if he wants a second term.