Posted on 12/05/2014 1:00:05 AM PST by South40
Drew, with all due respect, have you actually even READ Ted Cruz’s resume? In my opinion, you could not have both read his resume and make the statement that he has no “executive experience”. That’s just nonsense.
The one thing Ted Cruz is not, and you need to know this now, is an amateur.
Cruz has been called one of the best constitutional lawyers in the country. Since the primary job of the POTUS is to support and defend that constitution, I'd say he would be a pretty sound bet.
Add the fact, that he has courageously stood up to the liberal bias and RINO factions in this country should give him additional credibility.
Listen to him speak a few times before writing off his qualifications or credentials.
Just enough to run interference for the Demopublican Party and scuttle a conservative.
Again.
FYI: here it is. Please Read.
In 2012, Ted Cruz was elected as the 34th U.S. Senator from Texas. A passionate fighter for limited government, economic growth, and the Constitution, Ted won a decisive victory in both the Republican primary and the general election, despite having never before been elected to office.
Propelled by tens of thousands of grassroots activists across Texas, Ted’s election has been described by the Washington Post as “the biggest upset of 2012 . . . a true grassroots victory against very long odds.”
National Review has described Ted as “a great Reaganite hope,” columnist George Will has described him as “as good as it gets,” and the National Federation of Independent Business characterized his election as “critical to the small-business owners in [Texas, and], also to protecting free enterprise across America.”
Ted’s calling to public service is inspired largely by his first-hand observation of the pursuit of freedom and opportunity in America. Ted’s mother was born in Delaware to an Irish and Italian working-class family; she became the first in her family to go to college, graduated from Rice University with a degree in mathematics, and became a pioneering computer programmer in the 1950s.
Ted’s father was born in Cuba, fought in the revolution, and was imprisoned and tortured. He fled to Texas in 1957, penniless and not speaking a word of English. He washed dishes for 50 cents an hour, paid his way through the University of Texas, and started a small business in the oil and gas industry. Today, Ted’s father is a pastor in Dallas.
In the Senate, Ted serves on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; the Committee on Armed Services; the Committee on the Judiciary; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Before being elected, Ted received national acclaim as the Solicitor General of Texas, the State’s chief lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court. Serving under Attorney General Greg Abbott, Ted was the nation’s youngest Solicitor General, the longest serving Solicitor General in Texas, and the first Hispanic Solicitor General of Texas.
In private practice in Houston, Ted spent five years as a partner at one of the nation’s largest law firms, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national Appellate Litigation practice. Ted has authored more than 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and argued 43 oral arguments, including nine before the U.S. Supreme Court. During Ted’s service as Solicitor General, Texas achieved an unprecedented series of landmark national victories, including successfully defending:
• U.S. sovereignty against the UN and the World Court in Medellin v. Texas;
• The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms;
• The constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument;
• The constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance;
• The constitutionality of the Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment law; and
• The Texas congressional redistricting plan.
The National Law Journal has called Ted “a key voice” to whom “the [U.S. Supreme Court] Justices listen.” Ted has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, by the National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America, and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.
From 2004-09, he taught U.S. Supreme Court Litigation as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Prior to becoming Solicitor General, he served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
Ted graduated with honors from Princeton University and with high honors from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for the Chief Justice of the United States.
Ted and his wife Heidi live in his hometown of Houston, Texas, with their two young daughters Caroline and Catherine.
In case you need this to be pointed out, this resume includes SUCCESSFUL executive experience.
- Solicitor General of the State of Texas,
- Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, - - Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice
- Partner at a large Texas Law Firm
Maybe you want a Governor - that’s a reasonable preference that does not require you to demean a very capable and accomplished individual who would make a GREAT President.
BY the way, a President is not merely a manager/executive; a great President must be a leader. Perhaps it has been so long since we had one, you have forgotten the experience.
Who would you prefer? Jeb or maybe Christie?
Wait it was Romney who was attacking all the good gop candidates so you must be supporting him.
Thanks for posting that about Ted Cruz, and not just a link.
I was already aware of much of that, but it’s nice to have it in one piece.
That's rhetoric, and Cruz is a highly skilled rhetorician, right up there with Huey Long, William Jennings Bryan, and Obama.
Most freepers and other populist conservatives are not adept at discerning between rhetoric and reality.
He is a Harvard lawyer elitist married to a Wall Street elitist but he can talk the wisdom and virtue of the common man. He knows how to punch your button.
We’ll see. He still has to go to court.
Is Perry at least 80% conservative? If so, I could vote for him in the general election. I applied the same test with Romney last election and couldn’t find him conservative on any issue, so he did not get my vote. When Romney tried to sound “severely” conservative on anything, he was lying.
“Surprise surprise, another illuminati meat puppet promising the illusion of choice.”
I could be easily convinced of this: The GOP will in fact nominate Perry. That’s because they know he’ll lose the election, and that’s what they want.
The nation might be pulled a bit to the right after this recent election, so to counter that “they” need to keep a Dem in the White House.
Go rick...... best of the lot. A decisive leader that has taken on both Obama and Holder.
Go Texas
Rocky, you’re a cutie but I’m afraid you blew it already.
Ricky (dang Kindle)
Two words: Scott Walker
“Oops.”
-Rick Perry, during inevitable 2016 primary concession speech.
Enough with all the retreads. We didn’t want them last time. Take a hint. We want new blood.
For someone who has had an account here since 1998, you don't have a very good understanding of the population here.
Our group, which I guess does not include you is highly skilled in peeling the onion to reach the right consensus of who truly represents the conservative virtues we hold dear versus the wannabes in the RINO herd.
Go ahead and insult the patriots at FR, we recognize trolling when we see it. We also noticed that in your post that you didn't offer an alternative to Cruz. I am not surprised.
Take Cruz out of the equation. I will take Perry over Jeb, Romney, Huckabee, and Crispy Creme any day of the week.
I predict that if Cruz were to succeed as you want him to succeed, he will ultimately be a disappointment to you.
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