The dream team.
Posted on 04/24/2014 11:24:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Okay, it has been suggested that it's time for a poll. Who is your pick, at this point in 2014, to run for the presidency and vice-presidency? What combinations would you like to see, and why? Who is the real thing and who are the RINOs and CINOs? How can conservatives win? What is Plan A, Plan B and Plan C? What are you willing to do if the "right" candidates are nominated? Any ideas for fundraising? What can the grassroots and Tea Party do so we don't get steamrolled again? Who will you not support under any circumstances?
Palin/Cruz Cruz/Palin
Palin/Carson Carson/Palin
Cruz/Carson Carson/ Cruz
West/Carson Palin/West Cruz/West
Right now one of these combinations are the ONLY ONES, that I will exercise me valuable franchise for...........
I may have something different 2 years from now but if the election was next month this is it or the highway for me.
He never waivers. He never waffles. He is unapologetically pro-America.??
I second your thoughts. Cruz is the real deal.
Choices and why:
1 Cruz/Lee
2 Palin/ Jindal
3 Gingrich/ Trump
4 Walker/West
5 Jeb Bush/ Romney
6 Rice/ Lee
7 Brown/McCain
I have an immediate awareness of any politician that believes amnesty to illegals is the only option You are correct -- Perry and Walker positions leads to 100% amnesty.
I just heard Perry on the radio yesterday and he again 'hinted' that amnesty is the only way.
Experience as you assume is not needed.
What is needed is a leader that reveres the Constitution. Most Freepers could turn things around. All that is needed is the willingness to VETO insane bills.
Equal to a Conservative President what is vitally needed is Congressional leaders that will lead the effort to Repeal Obamacare, eliminate the EPA and Energy, and dismantle the growing police state (for starters).
With all that said, the RINOs will happily stop any Conservative President.
The only non-violent solution lies in the Article V amendment process by the States.
Now the why:
1. Cruz-Lee Best tea party choice but I don’t think they will be able to beat Hillary and the Machine—But it would be great debates and they might win.
2. Palin-Jindal She could lead a Reaganesque race—Jindal could help her with the south. But the Media toxic attacks might have made her to “extreme” to get elected—BUT it would be fun.
3. Gingrich-Trump what a race that would be—Trump would be a good Vice President—The debates would be classic—and Newt is a hard fighter.
4. Walker—West A hard race but solid. The media would work overtime to make west an “Uncle Tom” —Best combo of the lot but the race would be pedestrian and dull.
5. Jeb Bush—Romney A Dull but interesting race—I would like to see Mittens take off the gloves.
6. Rice—Lee The media would go nuts trying to make Rice into an Aunt Tomasina. Lee would run well—Do we need a Black woman? Her election would be “Historic” And she would be a great leader. Fun to see how racist the Democrats will become.
7. Brown—McCain—The Rino Ticket (again) This would end the GOP as we know it—Still an improvement over Hillary/Obama and his cronioes. A fun—but dull race.
This again?
Is Ted Cruz a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as president? [Yes! And I support him! JimRob]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084490/posts
Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[30] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[16] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[25] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[23]
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[2][31] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[32] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[32] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[33][34] Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[33]
Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,” draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”[29][35]
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.[2][36] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[31] Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”[17][37][38][39][40][41] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[42]
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.[42][43]
Clerkships
Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995[12][42] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.[2] Cruz was the first Hispanic to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[44]
Private practice
After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, which is now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.[45]
In 1998, Cruz served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner’s lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.
Bush Administration
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.[45]
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.[42][47]
After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department[2][47] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.[2][17][47]
Texas Solicitor General
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,[12][48] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.[25][42]
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.[12][17][27] Cruz’s record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.[49] Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: “We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights.”[49]
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.[27][50] Cruz also 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.[27][51]
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the constitutionality of Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.[17][27][42]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, [17][42] in which Cruz wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that a non-custodial parent does not have standing in court to sue to stop a public school from requiring its students to recite of the Pledge of Allegiance.[17][42] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief in a 9-0 decision.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.[42][52]
Private practice
After leaving the Solicitor General position in 2008, he worked in a private law firm in Houston, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, often representing corporate clients, until he was sworn in a U.S. Senator from Texas in 2013.[29][42][58] At Morgan, Lewis, he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.[58]
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.[12][17][27][42]
Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America,[48][53] by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,[54][55] and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.[56][57]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
I dare anyone to find me another 43 year old, ANYWHERE, with that much excellent experience!
This resume is extremely impressive however there is NOT one thing
on it about governing a state!!! I TOTALLY agree about his conservative
credentials however our BEST Presidents have been governors first!!!
Balancing budgets, leading state houses, ect. Ect. Ect.!!! The country is a
MESS I would much prefer he were a VP first!!!
Presidents such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, John Adams, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, and Harry Truman frequently populate the upper echelons of the greatest presidents over the last 220 years, and none served a day as governor.
If you REALLY NEED a governor, I can think of one who is available and already very conservative & influential. Can you guess her name? Here’s some hints: Salmon, polar bear, oil, moose and glaciers.
I'll second that.
Putin/Medvedev
Cruz, and his selection for VP...I’d go along with whoever he selected, he’s a very insightful, trustworthy, and visionary Republican with the right experience and expertise.
The dream team.
Kicking azz.
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