I am ready for whatever may befall, but sometimes it's more fun to play with them ;)
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.
LOL!
I'd rather have the guy who actually WORKED for a paycheck.
I agree. I don't understand those who refuse to given him a chance. I want him to succeed, of course, but why would you immediately shoot down the one guy who has all of the principles correct? Everyone else has this problem or that problem, or as with Bush, they have a huge number of things wrong. One news lady said it yesterday...and she's a democrat spokesperson. "The conservatives will split their vote and the moderate republican will win."
Maybe it is time to call out the Viking Kitties on this newbie blog pimp.
LOL! My dad used to say, its ok to talk to yourself. It’s even ok to argue with yourself. But when you start losing those arguments, you’re in trouble. :)
Peace,
SR
No, he doesn’t support amnesty. He supports legal immigration just as he said yesterday. So do I.
He supports increasing H-1b’s to 500,000. My God....
He is fairly new, isn’t he? Apparently came aboard before the mid-terms.
I am ready for whatever may befall, but sometimes it's more fun to play with them ;)
Which is why I’m posing the questions - no better place than FR on which to do that.
Before I go all in, I want data.
You mean like as in a guy that had argued and won 9 cases before the the US Supreme Court by the time he was 40 versus a corrupt community organizer from Chicago? Obama is not even fit to clean Ted Cruz’s shoes.
I would say he’s the smartest since Lincoln
I suspect that the GOPe will be paying bloggers to trash Cruz and other principled conservatives in order to push for Bush. The big money is on Bush because they know that with him, he will follow the money and the money will follow him.
Leo, you use conservative like it’s a swear word. I prefer constitutionalist. Now that’s a swear word leftists indirectly love to use. BTW, welcome to FR, if you really are who you say you are. It’s nice to see you’re on the “Only Ones” talking points list.
They're like cockroaches. You kill one and two more crawl out of the woodwork.
:: he has been doing the Lefty Meme ::
Question: Lefty Meme or carrying the water-bucket for the GOP-elite?
Of course. He’d be an awesome president. I hope he gets elected and has my vote. What I’m not looking forward to is the media shit storm of attacks over the next year or so. More and more hopeless division in our country. It really sucks. It’s happening in my own family. I admit to fully contributing to the problem for I wouldn’t vote for, nor even listen to any democrat under any circumstances even if she were my own mother.
I have members of my family that love Elizabeth Warren as much as we love Cruz. This won’t end well.
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