Jeff Sessions 2016? Why isn't he being recruited?

Vanity ^ | 12/07/2014 | thetallguy24

[thetallguy24]

Is it me, or is Sessions the guy we've been missing in the White House? I know he's older and been in Washington awhile, but he seems to be the one guy who really wants the truth out, wants limited government and border security, and stands up to the establishment. We need someone of unquestionable integrity.

Shouldn't he be the guy?

[SoConPubbie]

Why?

When you have a perfectly good POTUS candidate in Ted Cruz would you want to try and crowd the field and give the Chamber of Commerce pretend Republican candidates more of an opportunity to win?

We need to coalesce around ONE conservative candidate and let the moderates and those willing to settle for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th best split THIER votes this time.

[thetallguy24]

Why can’t they coalesce around Sessions? I’m just asking.

What’s his record vs any of the other POTUS candidates?

[nascarnation]

I agree, but coalesce around a non-Ivy Leaguer.
28 consecutive years is enough.
Sessions is from Huntingdon College and Univ of Alabama.

[thetallguy24]

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/04/laura-ingraham-jeff-sessions-should-run-for-president-in-2016/

Laura Ingraham likes him too.

[lee martell]

I agree, he would be good for the country. But I believe Sessions, like certain other outspoken members of Congress, would refuse to play the game of diplomacy while campaigning. He may be hindered by his honesty with voters not ready to deal with the facts.

[SoConPubbie]

I agree, but coalesce around a non-Ivy Leaguer.

So, if I, as a rock-solid conservative, correct on all issues, from a conservative perspective, made the mistake (according to you) of getting my degree from an Ivy-League school, no matter if I have a continuous and intact record of fighting and leading on conservative issues, am ineligible to be POTUS?

Are you really that superficial?

[SoConPubbie]

Here's your best reason for coalescing around Cruz over Sessions, and I say this with a deep appreciation for what Sessions is doing concerning Illegal Immigration:

Cruz (TX) - 99% (Overall Average) - 95% (CReview) - 100% (Heritage) - 100% (CFG) - 100% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)

Sessions (AL) - 83% (Overall Average) - 80% (CReview) - 79% (Heritage) - 88% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 82% (FreedomWorks)

With a hat-tip to cotton1706 for doing all the hard work of compiling this information.

[SoConPubbie]

Why can’t they coalesce around Sessions? I’m just asking.

Here's your best reason for coalescing around Cruz over Sessions, and I say this with a deep appreciation for what Sessions is doing concerning Illegal Immigration:

Cruz (TX) - 99% (Overall Average) - 95% (CReview) - 100% (Heritage) - 100% (CFG) - 100% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)

Sessions (AL) - 83% (Overall Average) - 80% (CReview) - 79% (Heritage) - 88% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 82% (FreedomWorks)

With a hat-tip to cotton1706 for doing all the hard work of compiling this information.

[nascarnation]

Only ineligible for 8 years.
I don’t want to make this a permanent ban.

Just want a “break” after 28 straight.

The havoc wreaked on the Republic by Ivy Leaguers since Roosevelt is horrendous.

We desperately need a “regular guy”. Not somebody whose wife is a domo at Goldman Sachs.

[SoConPubbie]

Just want a “break” after 28 straight.

The havoc wreaked on the Republic by Ivy Leaguers since Roosevelt is horrendous.

We desperately need a “regular guy”. Not somebody whose wife is a domo at Goldman Sachs.

So even though Ted Cruz is the complete conservative and has proven himself over and over and over again as the only one willing to stand on conservative issues, social, fiscal, and military you would dump him because of some arbitrary 8 year rule and choose someone else that is less acceptable from a principled, conservative policy position?

[SoConPubbie]

Just want a “break” after 28 straight.

The havoc wreaked on the Republic by Ivy Leaguers since Roosevelt is horrendous.

We desperately need a “regular guy”. Not somebody whose wife is a domo at Goldman Sachs.

So, what is it about Ted Cruz that leads you to believe he isn't a "regular guy" besides the school that he got a degree from?

[SoConPubbie]

The havoc wreaked on the Republic by Ivy Leaguers since Roosevelt is horrendous.

So what about Senator Cruz's record would lead you to believe that he would do anything that would wreak "havoc" on the Republic?

[nascarnation]

Nothing, but I’m nervous.
That east coast stuff is contagious and rubs off.

[xzins]

Jeff Sessions is one of my first choices. He is tied with Ted Cruz. His experience and committed conservative leadership is why I have him first. Cruz is also first due to committed conservative leadership. Flip flop them P/VP and I’ll be fine whichever way it turns out.

Just don’t throw Romney/Christie at me. I don’t have my puke bucket handy.

[SoConPubbie]

Nothing, but I’m nervous.
That east coast stuff is contagious and rubs off.

Well, if we go by the only thing that holds value in this discussion, the evidence, the history of Senator Cruz's actions, you have absolutely NOTHING to be nervous about, East Coast Ivy League School degree notwithstanding.

[SoConPubbie]

Xzins,

See post #9.

While Sessions is a conservative, he does not compare to Cruz on Policy and actual voting patterns.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’m pretty damn smart (could join MENSA tomorrow) but I’m willing to concede that many people are smarter than I am, sometimes much smarter — for example, Ted Cruz. It’s also clear from his record that Ted Cruz is smarter than almost everyone else in politics, government and the media. Ted Cruz graduated with honors from Princeton and the Harvard Law School, one of whose distinguished professors, Alan Dershowitz, has gone on record to say that Ted Cruz was one of the most brilliant students he ever taught.

Senator Cruz also served as a Appellate AND Supreme Court clerk; was integral in winning Bush v. Gore and Heller, was Texas Solicitor General, came from far behind in the polls to win his Texas Senate seat; and in a matter of little more than a year and a half in Washington has become a front runner for the Republican 2016 presidential nomination, picking up the most coveted Conservative endorsement — Sarah Palin’s — along the way.

Ted Cruz is an expert at winning, and if he thinks he can win the presidency in 2016, who are the rest of us relative mediocrities to disagree with him? [chuckle] After eight years of President Obama, only a towering genius will be able to undo the damage. And Ted Cruz is the only candidate who even remotely qualifies. Rand Paul and Jeb Bush, his principal opponents, are both mediocre products of nepotism; they inherited their father’s supporters.

Do we want a better country or not?

[sauropod]

People like him are not real popular with the GOPe.

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Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III?

Recruited for what? The NBA?