I share this dream!
Can you imagine the leader that Cruz would be after eight years of training by The Donald?
The Bold and the Brainy would rule!
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.
I'm just not able to see any path for Huckabee to win the nomination over Cruz, Trump or Rubio. I don't see it for Carson, either, so I don't include him in the top 3.
If it’s not going to be Trump then it should be Cruz.
AGREED!
>>Anyone who predicts Rubeo anywhere on any ticket is a frickin’ idiot.<<
You mean Rubio...right?
“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?”
Amen to that... some voters are already starting to key in on that fact.
I share this dream!
Can you imagine the leader that Cruz would be after eight years of training by The Donald?
The Bold and the Brainy would rule!
LOL!
That's "Old School" thinking. The opportunity is there, Trump & Cruz need to take it. The Congress is rudderless. Even a fool like Obama can control it.
Trump is a businessman/manager. He doesn't know politics. Cruz knows politics. Cruz would be Trump's man overseeing Congress. Cruz can push through any law that Trump wants passed - or repealed.
“From wiki: “Mobile-friendly - The will of Trump’s father, who died in 1999, divided an estate estimated at $250 –$300 million equally among his four children...†In 1999
His father died at 93 years old. Trump was 53 years old when his father died. Trump created a lot of business and property in NY in the early 80’s twenty years before his father died. It has nothing to do with his father’s wealth”
I didn’t know any of that, other than Trump didn’t squander what he inherited but worked hard and made it grow.
Thanks for the specifics.
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.
Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean that it can't!
George HW Bush could have won a second term if he stayed true to Reagan. But he was a GOPe NWO squish. He squandered everything that Reagan built.
If you remember, the Democrat party was in danger of collapsing. One of the reasons H Ross Perot gave for entering the race was to "save the Democrat Party."
It Trump wins the nomination and selects Cruz as VP, we could very well see 16 straight years of Republican rule. The only thing to prevent it would be a major scandal - and it would be up to Trump and Cruz to make sure that no scandals occur during their administrations.
“As Vice-President, Cruz is President of the Senate. He should be given responsibility for overhauling the Congress. Whip them into shape.”
McConnell deserves him, LOL!
That playing the victim is why she would destroy trump in a debate, because he will serve up ample opportunity for her to do so.
If Trump/Cruz win, it would be good if they “recommend” that the Senate select a new Majority Leader.
Strength through weakness!
“Plus when you have a Cruz why would you want anyone else?”
Because Cruz has been silent on immigration, both legal and illegal, for most of his campaign. The others came out with detailed policies - and Cruz said... nothing. He did say, build a wall, but said the American people didn’t want to discuss what to do with all the illegals. Huh? I switched to Trump because I sure the hell did want it discussed! Now, he’s finally come out with a plan, but the details about dealing with the illegals here are vague. He says deportation is an option, along with other things. What other things? Citizenship? I want clarity.
I escaped Mexifornia and don’t want my new home in the US invaded. You don’t know how good it is to hear English spoken and see American flags! Cruz’s immigration plan is 2nd best, but it is very late coming out and is still extremely vague on what to do with the illegals here.
My Man Ted is better, at this time, as a VP.
He could completely re-structure the power and force of what a CAPABLE VP can do and perform wonders in a senate fight over SCOTUS nominations.
Only The Donald has the BALLS to get to the White House.
And BIG BALLS one will need to beat the Harridan Shrew.
Another thing . . .
Lawsuits will be a’flyin’ if the Pubbies put up two folks who may not meet the NBC constitutional requirement.
D Bag Congress Critter Grayson from FL has already brought up his intentions.
America is not free republic.
I think McConnell will quit rather than deal with the man that had the courage and honesty to call him a liar on the Senate floor! That is why having Cruz over the Senate would be priceless.
I like your idea!
When you have the narrative of first woman nominated for president coupled with Trump putting all his best boorish behavior on display, you don’t think the media could swing 5-7% of LIVs with that? That’s just delusional
Nobody does a simple Google. I didn’t know any of that
Just know that he inherited some portion of 200 mil. Now he has 9 bil. People say that’s the same. It’s sick.
An upper middle class kid can inherit 30 thousand. And come out with 90million in fifteen years and that’s inheriting 9 0 million?
This is what people write on
It’s vapid
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