[Jim Noble]

I am hoping Cruz runs

There have only been 3 sitting US Senators elected President - zero from 1789-1916, 3 since 1920. Two of the three were elected during their first term - Harding and Obama.

The track record is not encouraging. The skill set for talking yourself into the US Senate is useful for BECOMING President, but it sucks for actually BEING President.

The President, among other things, manages 2.1 million employees of the Executive Branch. It's a safe bet that, when and if a conservative takes office, that 85%-90% of those two million plus employees will be bitterly and irrevocably opposed to him, and will do everything possible to oppose and to frustrate him (remember, they can't be fired).

This calls for a person with an outstanding track record as an administrator and as an executive.

Apologies to you and to Senator Cruz, but you're fishing in the wrong pond.

[Colonel_Flagg]

(remember, they can't be fired).

The air-traffic controllers thought that too. Ronald Reagan proved them wrong.

A Cruz Presidency would be all about management, as in the people he selected to run various departments. They'd need to be strong and tough, as would be the case for any conservative President.

And it's safe to say that in a number of cases, a President Cruz would look at the Constitutional viability of a number of Federal agencies (Education, EPA, Energy, etc.) and hopefully act accordingly.

[TomGuy]

There have only been 3 sitting US Senators elected President

The problem now is that we have nearly 100 senators who think they could be president.

2004 - Kerry, sitting senator
2008 - too many to list -- from both parties, and both parties fielded senators as their nominees
2012 - Santorum, and he didn't gain enough to be a strong 2nd or 3rd

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I have posted many times that senators are at the bottom of my preference lists, because they are little more than professional bloviators. They give a speech and they think an issue is resolved.