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 $66 donation.
2. He's a true believer in the United States of America. His love for his country and belief in its prospects are impassioned and unfeigned. He's ambitious, but his ambition stems from a desire to serve, where he believes that he is uniquely qualified to serve.
And the top reason to vote for Ted Cruz is:
He can beat Hillary Clinton. Not just beat her, but beat her by a landslide. Mrs. Clinton isn't that smart. She looks sort of smart when the media toss her softballs, but in a series of one-to-one, nowhere-to-hide presidential debates, Cruz would shred her. Cruz was the top college debater in the country. He knows how to assemble facts, stay on message, anticipate his opponent's moves and neutralize them. He's a quarter-century younger than Mrs. Clinton, smarter, sharper, and better prepared. He's also clean as a whistle in personal life and finances, while the Clintons could reasonably be understood to constitute a criminal enterprise.
Huckabee is the only one running who has the record of defeating the Clintons.
Sorry I cracked your HDS nut (”Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha “). Didn’t take much, did it?
He was a good looking dude too back when.
aging SUCKS.
In NYC, he was always well known.
I dont know about the rest of the country.
And he never said anything REALLY bad in all those years in public that could come back to haunt him. Not an easy task.
Now he’s on the other side of 60 and doesn’t give a @#$ what he says. Billions don’t hurt.
If I know him, he’ll spend almost nothing and still win lol
My opinion of the Huckster comes form years and years of knowledge about him. You think that the MSM treated Romney badly? There's SO much baggage that the old Huckster and his family has, it they would have a field day, if only he could raise his #s; which he can NOT do.
I don't have HDS, but you sure have delusions and are funny beyond words.
LOL....perfect post and 100% correct!
Predicting Rubio disqualifies the entire list which is mostly BS anyway. This adulation of Cruz is embarrassing as he is nothing like depicted.
â€Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha “For your HDS.
Trump is a manager. He'll pick the right people, and give them responsibility.
As Vice-President, Cruz is President of the Senate. He should be given responsibility for overhauling the Congress. Whip them into shape.
After 8 years of Trump, I'd like to see 8 years of a Cruz Presidency. With 16 years in the Executive branch. Cruz can undo a lot of damage done by Obama, Clinton and Carter.
LOL
There hasn’t been a vote on TPP. Please check your facts.
President of the Senate is a figurehead with no power.
Cruz would be all debate team winner, whilst Hillary would just lie, ignore, change the subject, obfuscate, and find a way to play the “victim”.
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I beg to differ. Cruz wouldn’t be looking for points; he’d be looking to SHRED her lies and expose them to the world. In the first couple of debates, I found him boring (though I love Cruz) because he was still trying to play by the rules and wait to be called upon. In this last debate, he’d figured out that being the nice guy was not going to work, and he jumped in with both feet whenever he had a good line to say. When he took it to the moderators and called them out on the stupidity of the questions they were asking, his numbers in the focus groups JUMPED through the roof!
So I no longer worry about Ted in the kind of “debate” we have these days. He knows how the game is played now, and he’ll be out to win it.
In my very humble and uneducated opinion there is ONE reason to vote for CRUZ that is both hugh and series and no one seems to mention.
It’s the SUPREME COURT!
We have had generations of SC justices appointed by career politicians who had not one tenth the constitutional knowledge of Ted Cruz.
If we want our country back, and I am sure we do, we need to spend as much time targeting the Supreme Court as we do Congress and the White House.
How many times have people here bitched and complained about SCOTUS rulings?
I know several times I have thrown ash trays over some reality bending by SCOTUS. Ya feel me John Roberts?!
Cruz would be much less likely to hang us with a Roberts.
He can read a court brief and understand each sides argument as well as why the judge gave the rulings they did.
If the next President serves two terms that person will appoint two, possibly three justices to the SC.
Pray Ginsberg manages to snooze through till inauguration day!
This country began it’s hard left turn when the liberals began to dominate the Supreme Court.
That is the ONLY way we will get it back short of open insurrection.
Cruz is a once-in-a-generation candidate. Why settle for second best?
Great article. Cruz’ ability to leverage his superior intellect to slash up an opponent’s argument is a priceless commodity.
“Huckabee/Cruz”
Well.. that’s the first endorsement for Huckabee I’ve seen here in FReeperland in quite some time.
Cowboy Bob you had a good line of reasoning going, so don’t take this personally.
But you really humped the mystical pooch when you farted out...with 16 years of the executive branch....
PLEASE, PLEASE look back over the history of this country and show me where one party won four consecutive presidential elections.
And don’t even bother trotting out FDR and Truman. They were an abomination before God and the beginnings of our present situation.
Statistically I have a better chance of being hit in the butt by an asteroid than either party has of winning four consecutive presidential elections.
Because he’s a Constitutional Conservative is more than enough reason but I’ll also vote for him because he doesn’t lie and always does what he says he’ll do.
Cruz has made statements both on the visa support and TPA (not TPP). It was around a week back or so here. He is fully against the full 5000+ page TPP since it has been released.
How is it easy to disagree with that final statement? Trump himself has said he was spoiled with money and at board meetings it was his way or the highway.
I can see Trump as a high handed threatening chairman.
He put into words what started bugging me about Trump I had trouble finding words for. Plus when you have a Cruz why would you want anyone else?
Not hard. He put into words what I could not. He would have to negotiate for a country not his personal gain and I see a decisive difference in the two. Just the fact he is more of a whiner than Bambi makes me not want to have to hear him for four years.
I think Trump’s mouth will eventually take him out. If not Cruz will take him out which is going to be awesome to watch.
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