Posted on 03/26/2015 7:52:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He sat for an interview with the left-leaning Texas Tribune earlier this week, and was lectured about how out of touch he is with the younger voters he’d like to energize in his campaign because his policy positions on weed, gay marriage and global warming don’t sufficiently pander to the preferences of a large number of them (one surmises Cruz is most out of touch with the most low-information and low-engagement young voters and not so much with the ones most likely to vote or volunteer for a presidential campaign.
And Cruz’ eyes lit up, as if to say “Oh? Did you mention global warming?”
Then it was on.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
It’s a good four minutes of rock-solid messaging. And in it Cruz shows that no, you can’t Sarah Palin him and call him stupid; and no, you can’t Ted Cruz him and call him crazy.
Cruz is a lot more lucid describing why the global warming alarmist position is not particularly scientific and the evidence just isn’t there to support it than Jerry Brown was when he breathlessly declared that Cruz was unqualified to even run for president because he disagrees with Brown’s position.
And no, being less crazy than Jerry Brown does not sufficiently qualify one to be the leader of the free world – it’s necessary, of course, but not sufficient.
But it’s fun to notice that the people screaming the loudest about Cruz being “absurd” or other similar negative adjectives as a presidential candidate tend to possess a lot less impressive intellectual credentials than he and even have a penchant for making dopey and unwise statements.
This isn’t an endorsement of Cruz; we still lean a little toward Scott Walker based on his having a bit better resume for the job. But the howling about Cruz, particularly from the corners it comes from, certainly does lend him more and more stature. Cruz, like Walker, definitely has the right enemies – and he’s very good at putting them in their place.
Cruz needs to expand on the coal-fired electric plants shut or shutting down, raising energy prices, due to the GW Cultists, with zero declaring early on he’d ‘bankrupt them’.
this is why cruz is awesome....he KNOWS the truth, isn’t afraid to state it and states it with confidence and truth.
If he talked a little slower he would be Reagan.
Ok, I liked all of that, but one thing I think he is completely missing out on......Is the cost of spending that money on these programs vs spending that money on known proven issues.
Billions of people are not only suffering directly from these programs, but indirectly due to the redirection of resources.
I’ve heard him called “Ted Lose”. I wonder if will also be called “Ted Craze”.
Not that any of this should bother him. It just means he’s got the left worried.
[we still lean a little toward Scott Walker based on his having a bit better resume for the job.]
“Why should Cruz be President? Let us count the ways...
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz 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.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. 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 criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
And he speaks with clarity.
bkmk
Think I heard the sound of a tiolet flushing a turd! Way to go Ted.
My wife and I have been talking about it a lot this week.
We had forgotten what "hope" actually felt like.
We cannot wait to vote for President Cruz.
At least when it comes to Global Warming, Cruz acts like he believes. Do Al Gore and Obama have any idea how much CO2 their solo jet flights emit?
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