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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.
By the way Leo, your blog sucked even when it was posted in full.
Leo, Leo, Leo. I knew this was coming to you at some point. You could always be counted on to completely miss the primary conservative point for whatever topic or issue you addressed in your latest blog entry. You were corrected over and over and yet would continue to push your very flawed thinking.
Perhaps your blog was truly one where less is more and that in excerpted form would have been less revolting ....
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Dear Mod ... please consider whether a thread title change with Zot incorporation is in order for this blogger ...
Wrong, but that doesn't matter to you. And I see someone has made sure it will never matter to you, at least under this screen name.
Good clean kill, KC.
We’ll all congratulate you in person at the TCMS.
Are you a math teacher? LOL.
My wife is and she loves tessalations.
You’re welcome, O Lion of Judah.
No, but I was always a straight-A math student.
I’m a bit [cough] rusty now. It has been 50 years...
I never could understand the old, “girls aren’t good at math” stuff.
I am personally glad to see you are a smoking hole now.
Know that your demise has proven one thing: any talk on FR negative to Cruz, will buy you a ride similar to the Great Guliani Purge of a few years ago.
Leo “Crispy” McNeil is now under Cruz Control....
Yes, Cruz would be a great Pres.
But if you are doing simple comparisons with Brak Ubama, my CAT would be a better president than Ubama.
Cheaper to maintain too.
Hit him so hard you knocked all the onomatopoeia out of him?
Admin Mod ROCKS!
I don’t feel comfortable with this zot. Leo wasn’t too bad. Not that anyone asked me or anything, nor does my opinion matter, truly....
They use real rocks too.
No artificial stuff there.
Me think-um (a little Indigenous American lingo there) -
Admin Moderator Zot = Good!
Leo (the Crispy Pimp) McNeil = Bad!
Me like-um Zot!
(But being a truly inclusive diverse sort of guy, I respect the Opinion of Laz. Just don’t agree on this one.)
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