Posted on 10/24/2014 8:37:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Mark Steyn, author of “The Undocumented Mark Steyn,” argued that culture is more important than elections, and that he liked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as someone who could shift American politics to the right in an appearance on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
Steyn stated “vision’s the important part. What's actually happening is that the kind of model of the social democratic welfare dependency state since the Second World War has run out of gas. It's over, and to persuade people to move off that model actually requires you to have a conversation with the people and change minds,” which he added goes beyond elections.
According to Steyn, providing a vision is important because “a lot of people don't want to think about complicated issues or unpleasant issues. They don't want to think about Islam. They don't want to think about massive debt that will cripple their children's lives, and liberals are very good at just giving them a kind of cute slogan that says this slogan will get you through it. ‘Coexist.’ You put a ‘coexist’ bumper sticker on your car you don’t have to think about problems of the world anymore.”(continued)
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Ted articulates better than anyone...I’m going to say this now...he’ll be the nominee
I agree on both points. I think there will be hell to pay if the GOPe tries for a RINO this time.
Not enough experience, really.
If they make a ‘bold’ choice, they win.
But nominate another ‘safe’ candidate like McCain or Romney and they lose again, for the third time.
I say “they” because by the time my state got around to voting, Juan and Mittens had been chosen.
America is fed up with Obama’s “malicious incompetence”. Cruz is a winner and he’s a serious man, unlike the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania.
Take the Senate back, keep the House, and the WH—then we can go after the Boners, Turtles, Linseeds, et al., and build a conservative GOP, not a weak echo of Democrats: moderate Republicans.
I like Cruz too.
The question will be; can he not get slimed by the media taking an innocuous comment out of context.
The long knives are already out for him. Can he navigate them without getting stuck.
I'd argue it, but I respect your point.
In any event, I believe the VP nomination on a Cruz ticket is vital. We can't afford another GHWB who, without vision, failed to follow Reagan's path and diverted us back into GOP establishment mediocrity.
You're absolutely right. Consultants like Karl Rove have steered the Republicans into disaster after disaster by encouraging them to play it safe.
After eight years of suffering under the boot heel of the tyrannical Marxist in the White House, and TWO lost presidential races, that's not going to sell among the people or the political right.
We're actually entering waters that are so dangerous, there's even the possibility that a purely political solution is beyond us. It's going to take people with spines of steel and some mighty thick hides to guide this country back from the brink of catastrophe.
The times demand leaders like Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Allen West, and others. If they don't rise to the top through our traditional civil processes, they will certainly come to the fore under more extraordinary circumstances.
Either way, this thing is coming to a head, and only those with the courage of our Founding generation will be able to meet the challenge.
She might just have fit the bill, but I suspect she has found her gig as a part of the chattering class is easier to deal with given the way the left attacked her and her family. It takes a really strong person to stand up to that.i do not know if I would be willing to put my family through it.
I still maintain that Sarah Palin has it in her to put her foot forward and walk into her destiny. It's a choice that only she can make, though.
Her "gig" isn't to be a commentator among the chattering class, although her writings and expressions about our conservative ideals are a very big part of her role as a leader.
Reagan spent years doing much the same thing before he finally launched his winning bid for President in 1980. He wrote volumes, and crisscrossed the country speaking to a multitude of conservative groups, which helped him build the contacts, and a coalition to help him achieve his goal.
I see Palin doing much the same thing, but in a different time and space, with slightly better tools.
And yes, the media is still very much afraid of her, so they take every opportunity to criticize and belittle her in an attempt to cut her chances off at the knees. Their efforts are only effective with dyed-in-the-wool liberals and wobbly Republicans anyway, so what does it really matter?
The people Sarah's trying to reach are listening, and they still regard her as someone who can lead us out of this mess.
They would, and how!
I like Cruz tremendously. He has a knife-sharp mind. He’s serious, not a lightweight. Despite his relative youth, I think he has the guts to dig his heels in and fight in an election. (His “Green Eggs and Ham” moment told us that!) And his personal life is boring enough that he won’t be a Herman Caine.
I think we who like Cruz need to start working NOW to make his name a household word (in a positive way). Talk him up on Facebook. Talk to your friends. We don’t want Her Thighness to win solely because people know who she is! For myself, I bought a T with the Sabo poster of a tattooed Cruz, and I’m going to tie dye it and make it fun, and use it as an intro to educate people about who he is. Want Cruz to win? Start that meme now!
Fortunately, to quote his Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, Ted Cruz is "off the charts brilliant."
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Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.[46]
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.[43][49] Cruz recruited future Chief Justice John Roberts and noted attorney Mike Carvin to the Bush legal team.[47]
After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department[2][49] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.[2][19][49]
Texas Solicitor General[edit]
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,[13][50] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.[27][43] The office had been established in 1999 under to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a “leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction.” As Solicitor General, Cruz would argue before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four.[47]
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.[13][19][29] Cruz’s record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.[51] Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: “We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights.”[51]
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.[29][52] Cruz also 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.[29][53]
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the constitutionality of Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.[19][29][43]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow,[19][43] in which Cruz wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states.[54] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.[43][55]
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 cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row.[13][19][29][43] With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the International Court of Justice argued that the United States had violated a treaty by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate.[47] Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision.[47]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
His youth? Do you know the ages of our founders?
I'm actually offended over your statement.
Here's a few:
Marquis de Lafayette, 18
James Monroe, 18
Gilbert Stuart, 20
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
Betsy Ross, 24
James Madison, 25
Here you can clearly see James Madison on that document we call the Constitution.
Geez, that punk was 25 years old, who did he think he was?
Does the VP have to be a woman? What’s wrong with Gov. Scott Walker?
A) We’re going up against Hillary Clinton. (B) I didn’t name any males because 2012. (C) Haley gets us the Indian and female votes, Martinez the Hispanic because many don’t consider Cubans as Latino, even though they are, of course.
43 would’ve been a relatively old man back then. Plus, he has all kinds of experience .... longest-serving solicitor general in Texas, US attorney, etc., etc.
He’s not too young for *me*! But I’ve seen that listed as a strike against him. (Also denigrators love to say that Cruz is “inexperienced.” I suppose it’s true that he doesn’t have executive experience. But he literally has one of the finest legal minds of his generation, and he loves our Constitution. I think he’ll do!)
Palin won't take the job. Haley would cost the GOP Ohio and Pennsylvania right off the bat. Martinez is a good choice but let's face it, the GOP won't go with two Hispanics on the ticket. Reynolds is a lieutenant governor. I agree that a governor in the second spot would add to the ticket and if you really want a woman then I'd suggest Fallin from Oklahoma. Otherwise Walker if he wins, Herbert in Utah, Deal in North Dakota, or even Kasich might be good choices. Brownback in Kansas would love to be in the running but he has to win first.
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