Posted on 01/07/2015 1:49:03 PM PST by Kaslin
Why the jab? Join the DP if you are looking for an elitist Harvard educated type.
Should Be a Governor not another Golfing Emperor ,LOL
Yes, from the School of Hard Knocks....................Magna Cum Laude..............
The next President should be one who reveres the United States Constitution and who believes in the ideals of very limited government.
There are many RINO governors and some Senators (Cruz ) who revere the Constitution.
Also, Walker is very very weak on Amnesty.
No doubt he’s been great for Wisconsin, I’m looking for a Constitutionalist Conservative and my SEN. TED CRUZ fits that bill, anyone else we might as well vote D to get this over with, so we can start fresh.
Some Governors should not be President—Like Hunkabee, like Mittens, Like Perry.
I will support whatever constitutionally ignorant Republican nominee is on the ticket.
Unless patriots wake up and use their voting muscle to peacefully force the corrupt federal government to surrender 10th Amendment-protected state powers which it has stolen from the states back to the states, it’s just a matter of time before we have someone more lawless than Obama in the Oval Office exercising constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers imo.
Of the 44 Presidents we have had, their highest offices were:
11 were former Vice-Presidents (Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur, Coolidge, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Bush)
11 were former Governors (Harrison, Tyler*, Hayes, Cleveland, McKinley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush)
5 were former Generals (Washington, Taylor, Pierce, Grant, Eisenhower)
5 were former Senators (Harrison, Harding, Truman*, Kennedy, Obama)
2 were US Representatives (Lincoln, Garfield)
1 was Secretary of State (Buchanan)
1 was Secretary of War (Taft)
1 was Secretary of Commerce (Hoover)
(*Tyler and Truman only served as Vice-Presidents for a very shirt time)
Governors and former vice-presidents make up half of those who have served as President. Mostly because the experience in an executive position gives a track record of their judgment in decisions.
Gov. Ted Cruz for President!
Obviously, winning the election doesn’t mean much anymore now does it? Look at yesterday.
Certainly no more Republicans who don't have a DC voting record.
Yeah. We need a governor in the White House because governors make such GREAT presidents:
*Woodrow Wilson
*FDR
*Jimmy Carter
*Ronald Reagan
*Bill Clinton
*George W. Bush
Puh-leeze. Outside of Ronald Reagan, every governor who made it into the White House has been a disaster.
I think 1 out of 6 is not a very encouraging track record.
Now I appreciate the Walker has some real conservative bona fides, but my understanding is that he is pro-amnesty, and unless I’m wrong about that, that renders him unacceptable in the White House.
What we need is a candidate who understands, believes in, articulates and has the proven courage to face down the Progressives and work for the Tea Party agenda in all respect: limited government, tax cuts, spending cuts, an end to Keynesian economics, Constitutional government, lack of federal involvement in education, border control and NO amnesty, and a vast reduction in the size and scope of the federal government.
The only prospective candidate who comes close to fitting that requirement as far as I can tell is Ted Cruz.
And unless every serious conservative gets behind him early and seriously, we will end up with President Bush III as sure as John Boehner won re-election as Speaker.
Ill vote for him.
Me, too.
Senator Cruz is much, MUCH better than this squish.
Ditto
Absolutely....executives for the Executive Branch.
No junior Senators...Texans included.
I DO NOT get how people are so sure that Cruz would govern any more conservatively than a Pence or a Walker. Yeah, his rhetoric is great, but that’s all it is at this point. And he’s a Senator from Texas, he can politically afford to vote/speechify as far right as possible. It benefits HIM to do so. I think his core beliefs are conservative, same as Walker/Pence (Bush...no); but governing is a different game with different costs.
(Don’t get me wrong though, I’d vote for the guy in a heartbeat.)
Roger that.
It isn't easy to be a great president, and it's pretty much impossible for a president to please everybody or somebody all the time.
Here's the other way to look at it, and it maybe what Walker is getting at: since John F. Kennedy ran for president, over 50 Senators have sought the presidency, and only two went directly from the Senate to the White House (Kennedy and Obama -- Johnson and Nixon got in after a spell as vice president).
In the same period four governors (Reagan, Carter, Clinton, and G.W. Bush were elected).
Senators don't usually get elected because people sense that they don't have the administrative experience Presidents need.
Free-lance ideologues and millionaires who never ran for anything before are even less likely to be elected President.
Compared to the competition, governors probably are better prepared to be president and the public seems to recognize that.
If they disappoint once they get in, that's another matter.
You are entitled to your opinion,no matter how ridiculous it is *Big Smile*
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