I didnt think you sounded like one of us.
Posted on 03/24/2015 4:47:25 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
I want to like Ted Cruz. He has all the right views from Obamacare to taxes to amnesty to Federal spending. He’s a gifted speaker, his speech yesterday was given without a teleprompter. He appeared genuine, frankly it appeared as though he had written the speech himself. The left hates Cruz, which of course makes him all the more likable. John McCain has called him a wacko bird, which again makes Cruz more likable. Anyone who annoys McCain must be good. Lost in the euphoria conservatives are having over Cruz is an objective look at whether Cruz will actually make a good President. Let’s face it, there isn’t a lot of evidence out there that Cruz is capable. Yes, he has all the right views but is he capable of governing effectively with those principles he claims?
Ted Cruz has as much experience today as Barack Obama did in 2007. Both entered their first Presidential race with zero executive governing experience. Both of them had just over two years of experience in the Senate before announcing their candidacy. Neither of them accomplished anything legislatively in the Senate, neither authored a single bill which made it through the chamber much less Congress. Ted Cruz is the conservative version of Barack Hussein Obama, he even has the birther crazies going wild because he was born in Canada.
Obama would have been much worse, from a conservative standpoint, had he been experienced heading into the White House. During his first year he had a filibuster proof majority in Congress and failed to get more than a watered down Wall Street bill and a Stimulus bill passed. He failed to pass an amnesty bill, he failed to pass a tax increase, he failed to pass Cap & Trade, he failed to close Guantanamo. The President wanted single payer socialist healthcare, he had to settle for Obamacare. Had Obama been more experienced, he’s likely to have figured out how to pass most of his agenda. From a managerial standpoint, his agencies are a mess. They had three years to put together a website for Obamacare and the administration failed miserably. Obama had no idea there was a problem until after the website went live. Obama came into office promising to clean up the VA, six years later nothing has changed. Much of this is due to the President’s inexperience. Obama’s lawless unilateral actions today are directly traceable to his legislative inexperience and lack of skill.
What evidence is there that Ted Cruz will do a better job than Obama? Yes, we can always fall back on Cruz having the right principles. However if he isn’t capable of implementing those principles, what good is he to the conservative cause? The question for conservatives today is what evidence is there that Cruz will be effective managing the executive branch? Objectively there isn’t much evidence out there that he’s capable of doing much of anything other than give a good speech. A President has to be more than that though. There is a lesson to be learned from Obama’s nomination, it simply isn’t wise to nominate someone who doesn’t have much experience.
On a more subjective note, don’t you wonder about the motivations of someone who thinks that after two years in the Senate he’s qualified to be President? After eight years of watching Obama, it’s clear he’s a narcissist. That probably should have been obvious from the moment he announced his candidacy. Only a narcissist would think he’s qualified to run for President with so little experience. Cruz is in the same boat. While it’s nice to believe his motivations are pure and Constitutional, we’re only fooling ourselves if we truly believe it. Cruz is arrogant enough to believe that despite his inexperience and lack of accomplishment he should be elected President. Considering all the conservative jumping on the Cruz bandwagon, it appears we’ve learned little from the mistake of Obama.
Very well stated!
I took you seriously about the blog pump.
I thought maybe it was similar to a bog pump. Bog pumps suck the water out of swampy land, so a blog pump would just suck.
(Or something like that.)
>> You misread what I wrote <<
Indeed I did. My apology. We agree that Coolidge was a good POTUS.
On the other hand, I still maintain that Senators make bad POTI.
And as far as I know, Cruz has NEVER been a community organizer.
You speak of things that true leaders are born with and you can spot them a mile off the first time they try to form a coherent sentence without a teleprompter.
I didnt think you sounded like one of us.
The air smells fresher in here now.
lol
Unfortunately Obama has been a very effective President and has moved the government much farther to the left. We should pray for a conservative who can do that the other way.
I think Cruz is that guy
Kinda like the air after a brief thunderstorm...
He’s dead, Jim.
You nailed it, but good. Obama's cockamamie executive orders would spare from deportation as many as 5 million people who are in the U.S. illegally......plus he's importing them over the border from 144 antediluvian countries, at last count.
To best understand what is going on, we need to call this what it is......and invasion of foreigners seeking to over throw the US govt. The ding-a-ling in the WH recognizes no laws---he considers our laws to be a plot by evil white men to suppress "people of pallor."
Here, Obama reveals himself, taking his America hatred to new heights .......he
is in collusion w/ Third World govts.....financing and facilitating the overthrow.
Our Founding Fathers wisely advocated against foreign entanglements.
George Washington famously argued that the US must "Act for ourselves and
not for others," by forming an "American character wholly free of foreign
attachments."
Attention grabbing graphic. Great job, TheOldLady.
Great ZOT!
Now That Ted Cruz has Declared His Candidacy- You Ever Seen the Guy's Resume?
"If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by."
(Various, incl. Tsun Tsu)
I must confess. I really like fractals.
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