Posted on 11/26/2015 11:59:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A month ago I predicted a Cruz-Rubio ticket. Now that Cruz has overtaken Carson to run neck-and-neck with Trump in the Iowa Quinnipiac University poll, Cruz is looking a lot like a winner. Here are my top 10 reasons to back him.
10. He really knows economics--not the ideologically driven pablum dished out at universities, but the real battlefield of entrenched monopolies against entrepreneurial upstarts. As Asheesh Agarwal and John Delacourt reported in this space, he did a brilliant job at the Federal Trade Commission: "Cruz promoted economic liberty and fought government efforts to rig the marketplace in favor of special interests. Most notably, Cruz launched an initiative to study the government’s role in conspiring with established businesses to suppress e-commerce. This initiative ultimately led the U.S. Supreme Court to open up an entire industry to small e-tailers." Anyone can propose tax cuts. It takes real know-how to cut through the regulatory kudzu that is strangling America enterprise.
9. He really knows foreign policy. He is a hardline defender of American interests, but wants to keep American politics out of the export business. That's why neo-conservatives like Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post and Kimberly Strassel at the Wall Street Journal keep sliming him. The Bushies started attacking Cruz a year ago, when he stated the obvious about the Bush administration's great adventure in "democratic globalism": "I think we stayed too long, and we got far too involved in nation-building….We should not be trying to turn Iraq into Switzerland." He's not beholden to the bunglers of the Bush administration, unlike the hapless Marco Rubio.
8. He really knows the political system. As Texas solicitor general, he argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and won five of them. How many other lawyers in the United States have gone to the Supreme Court nine times on points of Constitutional law? The best write-up I've seen on his brilliance as a Constitutional lawyer came from the liberal New Yorker--grudging praise, but praise nevertheless. Some of his legal work was brilliant, displaying a refined understanding of separation of powers and federalism. If you want a president who knows the mechanism of American governance from the inside, there's no-one else who comes close to Cruz.
7. He's an outsider, and America needs an outsider. The public thinks that Washington is corrupt, and it IS corrupt. The banks are corrupt, the defense industries (with their $1.5 trillion budget for a new fighter plane that won't fly) are corrupt, the tech companies (run by patent trolls rather than engineers) are corrupt, the public utilities are corrupt. The American people want a new broom. But it helps to put it in the hands of someone who knows his way around the broom closet.
6. Trump and Carson aren't serious candidates. Carson is an endearing fellow who has no business running for president: apart from his medical specialty, his knowledge of the world is an autodidact's jumble of fact and fantasy. Donald Trump inherited money and ran a family business: never in his life did he have to persuade shareholders, investors, directors, or anyone else to work with him. At best, he knew how to cajole and threaten. It's been his way or the highway since he was a kid, and that's the worst possible training for a U.S. president.
5. Cruz is in but not of the system. The distinguished conservative scholar Robert P. George mentored him at Princeton and the flamboyant (but effective) liberal Alan Dershowitz taught him at Harvard Law School. Both agree he was the smartest student they ever had. An Ivy League education isn't important unless, of course, you don't have one: to run the United States, it helps to have dwelt in the belly of the beast. Cruz came through the elite university mill with his principles intact, and a keen understanding of the liberal mentality.
4. He's got real grit--call it fire in the belly, but Cruz wants to be president and wants us to want him to be president. Determination is a lot more important than charm, where Cruz won't win first prize. When it comes down to it, Americans don't want a charming president, but a smart, tough and decent one. Marco Rubio, the Establishment's last hope after Jeb Bush's belly-flop, is instantly recognizable as the tough-guy hero's cute younger brother. Either Cruz or Fiorina would fill out the ticket.
3. He knows how to run a real campaign as opposed to a flash-in-the-pan media event. Cruz has boots on the ground, an organization of people who believe in him and raise money at twice the rate of Rubio--with an average $66 donation.
2. He's a true believer in the United States of America. His love for his country and belief in its prospects are impassioned and unfeigned. He's ambitious, but his ambition stems from a desire to serve, where he believes that he is uniquely qualified to serve.
And the top reason to vote for Ted Cruz is:
He can beat Hillary Clinton. Not just beat her, but beat her by a landslide. Mrs. Clinton isn't that smart. She looks sort of smart when the media toss her softballs, but in a series of one-to-one, nowhere-to-hide presidential debates, Cruz would shred her. Cruz was the top college debater in the country. He knows how to assemble facts, stay on message, anticipate his opponent's moves and neutralize them. He's a quarter-century younger than Mrs. Clinton, smarter, sharper, and better prepared. He's also clean as a whistle in personal life and finances, while the Clintons could reasonably be understood to constitute a criminal enterprise.
Overlook it at your own risk.
I stand corrected, thanks.
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You have a screaming leftist friend?
And my triple-thanks to you for all the great pings. God bless!!
You have no screaming leftist friends? Interesting.
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Shouldn't that be "Bah bah bah" ?
No, I don’t. Funny, isn’t it? That a conservative wouldn’t have screaming leftist friends?
Oh. Like a sheep? That’s funny. Ha ha ha
People who differentiate a quarter of 200,000,000 as a fraction of 2 or 3 or 9 billion are sheeps?
Go do something productive with your day
Do some research on whatever candidate you find better. If you start with wiki it’ll be more than you’ve read on that candidate I’m betting
No, I don’t guess I do. I probably have a different viewpoint than a lot of people though now days. Suffering does not make one a hero although those men are pretty close to hero status for enduring what they did.
Every soldier in every war put his life on the line for his country.
McCain was willing to risk his life and paid damn near the ultimate price. That makes him a hero. Did you watch the video? Did you see the arrogant scorn and derision in Trump's manner, as if he would never have been so stupid as to be shot down? Hero, hah! And the closest Trump ever got to the military was in the military academy we was sent to at age 13. Honestly -- the video turns my stomach.
But then, I knew a guy who survived the Bataan Death March. When I hear Trump basically saying that these guys were captured which makes them losers ("I like people that weren't captured" ... cue audience laughter), I think of all the POWs who lived and all the POWs who died.
Trump is a cad.
Well then, there are hundreds of thousands of heroes out there aren’t there.
God bless you too!
Leading from behind. What a novel idea.
My dead Brother In Law was a Bataan Death March survivor but he did not get a Silver Star as McCain's daddy supplied to John.
That is simply not true
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., TX) released a statement Friday demanding that President Barack Obama end federal aid to Egypt due to the recent military coup.
Here we see Ted Cruz siding with a terrorist organization the Muslim Brotherhood after the good guys (Egyptian military) took them out of power in Egypt. Is is a huge error in judgment and displays an astounding lack of basic knowledge about the politics of the middle east.
"http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cruz-demands-obama-end-aid-to-egypt
Another simply not true. Cruz has spent almost his entire adult life in government much of it in D.C. His wife is a high level employee for Golden Sachs one of the most influential banks on Wall Street. His claim to be an outsider is about as credible as Jeb claim to be an outsider.
Folks in NYC....drivers (car, carriage), residents - ALL love Trump! Everywhere we went, friends/family/employees are pumped up about Trump for Prez. It’s amazing. I was pleasantly surprised by the outward support for Trump.
Trump and Carson aren't serious candidates.
Trump is not a serious candidate? That is an obvious bald face lie.
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