One can’t base experience in the U.S. Senate as evidence of insufficient preparation. The Punk could have served 40 years as a governor of Illinois and still been a economy-crippling disaster. I can’t think of anyone who would inspire more confidence and exude more competence in the WH than Sen. Cruz. The only person I’d be almost as pleased to see there is Gov. Palin. Bob
The point I was trying to make is that after 4 years in the Senate (2 of which would necessarily have been on the campaign trail), Cruz will have had exactly zero years of executive experience. Neither, after such a short time, would he be intimately familiar with the workings of the federal government which a POTUS has to manage. I have previously made similar arguments when Rubio was the flavor of the week.
Deficits in both those areas would make Cruz, IMO, unqualified in ‘16. We’ve had quite enough of that. We need someone who knows the ropes and who has experience being the sole decision maker when difficult questions arise. What’s wrong with letting a potential presidential candidate ripen before thrusting him into a race for the highest office in the land (used to be world).
Few outside TX heard of Cruz two years ago, half of all Americans still don’t know who he is. Yet, you want to see him as the GOP candidate/POTUS in 3 years? I’d certainly consider him in ‘20 if he continues as he’s started, since NBC no longer counts, but no way would I think of him as ready for the job in ‘16.