Posted on 03/23/2015 6:42:05 PM PDT by Maceman
You know the argument some people are making against Ted Cruz, that we need a governor to be president? Well let me tell you, Mark Levin just completely obliterated that argument like no one else I’ve heard. And he didn’t do it in the name of Ted Cruz or any specific candidate. But it’s awesome and something you’ll definitely want to hear:
Rick Perry was Texas Governor for 15 years. Ted Cruz has been a Texas Senator for 2 years.
Perry would be a terrible candidate, not as bad as Romney (also a governor), but clearly Perry is not even in the same league as Cruz.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Ted Cruz and have listened to him speak many times. Not only is he the smartest candidate, he is literally one of the most intelligent elected officials alive today. He is a Thomas Jefferson level of intellect.
Moonbeam is a governor, is he a leader? I DON’T THINK SO...
Princeton, BA Public Policy, cum laude, 1992
National Speaker of the Year, 1992
US National Debate Championships, Top Speaker, 1992
Harvard, JD, magna cum laude, 1995
Harvard Law Review, primary editor
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, executive editor
Harvard Latino Law Review, founding editor
Law Clerk, J Michael Luttig, US Appeals 4th Circuit, 1995
Law Clerk, William Rehnquist, US Supreme Court, 1996
Associate deputy attorney general, U.S. Justice Department
Director of policy planning, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court
Sponsored 25 bills of his own as Senator (far more than Obama)
First Hispanic, and the youngest and longest-serving solicitor general in Texas history.
Adjunct professor of law, University of Texas School of Law in Austin, 2004-09
My guess is that they will go with “too young” next. He’s only 44.
It’s quite apparent you didn’t read my post, or if you did, you didn’t comprehend what I said.
WHO is Moonbeam?
Jerry Brown Gov of California.
His dad was governor and then he was, after Reagan I think. He dated
Linda Ronstad and drove an old junker in those days. Kind of a hippie. Therefore Moonbeam.
Ted Cruz has an amazing resume. He isn’t just a Senator.
It will be amusing to watch the lemmings respond as one to anything remotely critical of Cruz until they jump off his bandwagon and on to the next candidate of the day.
(It’s entertaining to throw out some chum and watch the waters roil.)
Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. of California.
The bullet train to no where.
Cruz has a large groundswell of small donations.
And the anti-Cruz lemmings will throw everything they can at Cruz to drag him down.
It's entertaining to watch the standard liberal republicans and their talking points. Those were predicted long before Cruz decided to run.
And Cruz is getting money in small donations. Lots of small donations.
/johnny
I would seriously give up my left nut and a kidney to see Mark Levin run for POTUS. I ask him all the time too. I think he’s concerned about his health issues though so he has no interest, but I mean can you imagine this guy in a debate against people like Hitlery or Jeb Doosh? He’d just utterly obliterate them like grass.
The two greatest Presidents of the 20th century were both governors: Coolidge and Reagan.
Here is the miserable list of Senators who became Presidents: Warren G. Harding, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Barack Obama.
Harding exacerbated the economic crisis which would have passed without any action on the part of government. It was actually clearing when he made it worse. He also paved the way to FDR.
Truman stumbled around making foreign and domestic policy worse - luckily he agreed to drop the bomb.
Kennedy gave us the flubbed-from-the-beginning Vietnam War, not to mention essentially beginning the modern imperial presidency.
Johnson did what the KKK set out to do and destroy the black family. He gave us the added bonus of bringing the rest of the country with it. We’d never have had hip hop music, but for LBJ.
Nixon gave us the EPA, a Democrat run Congress, and Jimmy Carter.
Need I mention the crimes of Obama?
No one on FR wants a Democrat governor, just ones like Coolidge and Reagan, more like Coolidge than Reagan if I was deciding.
I rest my case.
What? Reagan gave us James A. Baker, III, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, King Day, quite a bit of GOP liberalism there.
Smart doesn’t impress me. Accomplishments impress me. Cruz was unable to build traction from the first government shutdown victory. He’s not going to get the nomination. His hearts in the wrong place, but he’s losing out on the bigger strategic game of politics.
The nominee will be the one that the GOPe can get behind. They don’t want to lose the lucrative opportunities that government presents. Our goal is to make that candidate the most conservative possible, as well as making certain that person can beat the Democrat.
Cruz has alienated the GOPe. I think it will become very clear in the primaries. He’d be hard to pick as a VP as well. His reputation as a team player is shot and a VP has to be a team player.
And Coolidge gave us Harding. The point is that the country’s been a mess since Harding and it keeps getting worse. The solution isn’t going to come solely from DC. As a matter of face, DC is the problem.
I don't find your case very persuasive.
I agree that the two best presidents of the past 100 years were former governors. But the other 6 former governors were pretty much disasters, including the worst -- Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, Carter, Clinton. Bush was not among the worst, but he was pretty bad.
And when you look at the miserable former senator presidents (and I agree with your evaluation of them) their problems were not that they were former senators. Their problems were around their political philosophies and their ethics.
There is not ONE of those former senators whose philosophies and ethics can in any way be compared with those of Ted Cruz, so I think your analysis is deeply flawed.
According to your analysis, Jeb Bush would be preferable to Ted Cruz. I think that conclusion would be highly incompatible with observable reality on its face.
hey, poppy- you are a supporter of the current jazz factory. Why don’t you and your minions, stay sated by your gods of nothing, in central/south Americas?
Lincoln was never a governor.
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