First, he's a politician and he takes money to run, which means he's beholden. I know, they all do it but it doesn't mean he's not going to be beholden to the big money backers. Trump on the other hand appears to be spending his own cash.
Second, and most important to me. Cruz doesn't have any experience in making management or executive decisions. Decision making and negotiating are the two biggest skills required by our president but Cruz doesn't have those skills. Trump, on the other hand, makes decisions and negotiates all day long. It's his job.
Finally, you don't endear your argument on Cruz towards me by calling me a graduate of Trump University. I do have a college degree, was an officer in the military, and have run several successful businesses during my career, so I find it disingenuous on your part to paint all Trump supporters with the same broad brush. They are not the same. Nor are they bereft of the intellect required to make up their own minds without your assistance.
I’ll give you that. The GOP is venal and self-serving. But did you watch that “debate” last night? I’m sorry, but from my perspective that was disqualifying. Trump’s campaign in theory is a good idea but in practice it’s an awful spectacle. Just wait until the Democrats start running ads. The cursing and all the nasty things he has said about women will be enough to lose the election five times over. God knows what else they have him.
In agreement with all your points, but let me add one more, perhaps more important than any other.
The ability to continue on with confidence after a big failure, quickly learn from it, adjust and move on.
I don’t see that ability in any of the others. So far as I know none have experienced a failure or loss of equal magnitude, so we have no way of knowing how they react to such stress personally and to the burden of loss suffered by employees.
Disclosure: I worked in the firm that did urban planning, zoning, documents for local review and approval of his West Side project. In that milieu he is fully focused on all elements of his project vision and the necessary steps to achieve it to successful completion. And yeah, his bombast is on par with Gen. Patton’s, sometimes inappropriate, but hard charging towards the goal.
Well said!