[Resettozero]

Ted can do but will need a different Congress and not just a handful of helpers.

[CincyRichieRich]

He’s $94k short per emails I get...let’s send him some $$$.

[cripplecreek]

As Texas solicitor General he won the Medellín v. Texas against the UN, international courts, and the wishes of the Bush administration. In winning that single case he did more good for state sovereignty, US sovereignty, and the victims of illegal alien crimes that the entirety of congress has done in the past decade.

Medellín v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008), is a United States Supreme Court decision that held that even if an international treaty may constitute an international commitment, it is not binding domestic law unless Congress has enacted statutes implementing it or unless the treaty itself is "self-executing." Also, the Court held that decisions of the International Court of Justice are not binding domestic law and that, without authority from the United States Congress or the Constitution, the President of the United States lacks the power to enforce international treaties or decisions of the International Court of Justice.

Medellín v. Texas

That case was so effective that today the Michigan and Oklahoma attorney generals are encouraging other states to impose their own sanctions on Iran using Medellín v. Texas as precedent.

(MI) Schuette Calls on All States to Impose Sanctions on Iran

And perhaps most satisfying of all, Ted Cruz terrifies liberals in a way that other candidates can only dream of.

Uber lefty Chris Hayes explains his horror when he realized that Ted Cruz was running for a senate seat.

In october 2007 I sat in the media gallery of the united states supreme court and watched the solicitor general of texas argue on behalf of the state that he should have the ability to put to death a mexican national, Jose Medellín, who had been convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls in houston. He won that argument and he (Medellín) was executed by texas on august 5th , 2008 , despite the objections of the united nations and the international court of justice . at the time, I had no idea who this man arguing on behalf of texas was. but all I could think was holy crap , this guy is good. it was one of his nine times arguing before the supreme court and he was witty, incredibly fast on his feet and clearly had a brilliant legal mind. it is to this day one of the most impressive displays i have ever seen before the court and i have had the good fortune to spend a lot of time there. so you can imagine my horror in 2012 when i tuned into the texas senate race. i hadn't been paying much attention to. and realized that lieutenant governor david dewhurst , the republican establishment candidate, was being prepared by a tea party candidate who was the same guy i saw kick ass in the supreme court in 2007 . i thought that night, night i made that connection, oh, this is trouble. and trouble that man has been. trouble in every direction. as he vies to be the singular voice of the right wing grassroots and as he has very quickly assumed a leadership role in movement.

Is Ted Cruz the most dangerous man on the American right?

[libbylu]

I always thought so. He cleanly and concisely in maybe 15 seconds explained no citizenship for illegals. I heard this on live TV.
2nd.. This is very curious. The cable ratings for Monday 28th have no totals for FNC or FNB by the hour except fox and friends. What do you think?
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/09/29/cable-news-ratings-for-monday-september-28-2015/473818/

[roamer_1]

Based on his record

Yeah, but most people around here are distracted by bouncy-shiny things... Who looks at records anymore? That's so hard...

[skeeter]

And he's only 44.

This guy is gonna be making things happen for another 30 years, long after Barack is eating strained peas & pureed carrots and crapping his drawers.

[Jack Hammer]

They seem to have left out that Barack Obama was a college homo and smoked lots of weed; then he butt humped the entire nation while stoked on the Wonderfulness of Himself (in his case, a powerful hallucinogen).

[brothers4thID]

BTT. Thanks for the info