Puh-leeze.
Over the past 100 years (or so) we have had 8 presidents with prior gubernatorial experience:
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
With the exception of Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge, the remaining six have been unmitigated disasters.
That's hardly an encouraging record.
And Reagan wasn’t a great president because he was a governor. He was a great president because he understood what America was all about, loved liberty, limited government and free markets, and knew how to sell it.
I like a lot of what I know about Walker, but the fact is that he appears to be a supporter of amnesty/immigration reform -- which is a deal killer as for as I am concerned.
Ted Cruz is the ONLY consistent, articulate conservative candidate who seems to understand the proper role of the federal government in all respects.
I believe that when one looks at the whole pack, Cruz is the only one who has the brains, the principles and the experience to save this country, if in fact it can be saved after 100 years of Progressive leftist infestation by both parties.
You think if Cruz had four Senate terms, that would make him a better presidential prospect? Really? How? By getting him so entrenched as a lifer in the GOPe that he'd owe all the other RINOs all kinds of favors? You think being a three-term Senator would make him a good president, like President McCain?
Check out Cruz's resume. He's a very accomplished guy.
You say, "well, his principles are nice, but . . . ." Rubbish -- the principles are the MAIN requirement, and he is the only one who has them.
Mace, isn’t Cruz for amnesty?
And is that not a deal breaker, as you said?
>> Over the past 100 years (or so) we have had 8 presidents with prior gubernatorial experience <<
Yep, but let’s consider the POTI during those same 100 years who went directly from the U. S. Senate to the White House:
1. Warren Harding
2. John F. Kennedy
3. B. Hussein O’Bama
A whopping 100% of these POTI racked up terrible records, as opposed to your 80% of gubernatorial POTI who were “unmitigated disasters.”
And by the way, just how do you conclude that Coolidge was any sort of disaster? IIRC, he was Reagan’s favorite past POTUS.