Nope!
Posted on 03/10/2014 9:10:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You have probably seen all of the ridiculous speculating about the GOP nomination in 2016. This is still speculating, but my sincere hope is you don’t think it’s ridiculous too.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is laying the foundation for his presidential bid in concrete and steel.
First, forget about Jeb Bush unless you want to hand Hillary eight years in the White House. The latest Rasmussen poll shows her leading Jeb in a general election 47 percent to 33. His name is Bush and to the general public the specifics of how smart he is doesn’t matter one iota.
Then there’s Ted Cruz, he’s nothing but a hack. There’s no substance to what he says. He only cares about adulation and applause. When he speaks, it’s contrived and inauthentic. Matt Lewis’s recent piece on Ted Cruz’ strategy illustrated this, pointing out that Ted Cruz is trying to get close to Paul, while sticking to the mainstream GOP foreign policy to not seem to far out there.
Even before Chris Christie’s troubles with the George Washington Bridge and being exposed at the very least for hiring a petty, inept staff he was a poor fit for the Republican party base. His disdain for the second amendment is a major obstacle. Governor Christie has done nothing to restore the gun rights of the people of New Jersey and doesn’t care to. Whether intentional or not, Christie helped Barack Obama get re-elected through his endorsements and photo ops after Hurricane Sandy....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Rand Paul’s wife said no. I can understand Rand well in advance trying to confirm the Kentucky law just in case.
One advantage of Hilary, Medvedev and Putin is Rand Paul looks normal height.
I know they've all had to make some sort of compromise or other that causes some whackos to label them RINOs, but they haven't done anything that Reagan didn't do as governor of California.
Let's not elect another inexperienced senator. We did that with Kennedy and almost got into WW III. We did it again with Obama and are about to get into WW III.
A third time with a yacker-in-chief is not going to be "the charm".
Did you forget a certain successful Alaska governor?
I have Obot relatives and can endure idiocy to a point:)
Rand’s been an avid pro-lifer so though I don’t like this feud or some of the stories out there, on this one and very important issue he is correct or at least trying: http://nationalprolifealliance.com/tpfh_petition.aspx?pid=1130
So, I would go back to the 11th commandment I believe, I’d vote for Ted Cruz over Rand and I’d probably vote Scott Walker over Rand, anyhoo, Walker has to deal with trying to win reelection before he thinks about the presidency.
But the author of that article at daily caller, looks to be your typical wild eyed libertarian type. So the article is very limited in that.
She couldn’t win the nomination the last time. She is eight years older, significantly uglier and at least as polarizing as she was in 2008.
She lost to a nobody with a good line of BS. She is always the ‘front runner’ until the race begins.
A strong conservative should be able to wipe the floor with her. Hell, even a moderate conservative with a reasonable ability to explain conservative values should be able to beat her.
But immigration is one of my red lines.
Paul seems to be betting on the powerful GOPe leaders in the smokey back room, and the Ron Paul kids in the streets, there is no question that he was raised on politics from infancy.
As I have said on another thread, Rand Paul is Ron Paul in camouflage.
I stayed up all night watching Senator Ted Cruz lay out the Obamacare lie. He is that good. There is something about him that embodies an Abe Lincoln.
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Education
Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[26] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[11] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[20] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[18]
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[2][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[27] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[27] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[28][29] Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[28]
Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,” draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”[24][30]
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.[2][31] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”[12][32][33][34][35][36] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[37]
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.[37][38]
Legal career
Clerkships
Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995[4][37] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.[2] Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[39]
Private practice
After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, which is now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.[40]
In 1998, Cruz served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner’s lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.[41]
Texas Solicitor General
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,[4][43] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.[20][37]
Cruz has authored more than 80 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.[4][12][22] Cruz’s record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.[44] Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: “We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights.”[44]
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.[22][45] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[22][46]
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the constitutionality of Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.[12][22][37]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in another high-profile case, which was Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.[12][37] In Newdow, Cruz wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that a non-custodial parent does not have standing in court to sue to stop a public school from requiring its students to recite of the Pledge of Allegiance.[12][37] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief in a 9-0 decision.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.[37][47]
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.[4][12][22][37]
Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America,[43][48] by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,[49][50] and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.[51][52](continued)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
What YOU said :)
I can’t finish that cr@p.
It’s a campaign puff piece.
He might have a point about one thing. Young, uninformed Americans may well see Paul as “cool.” We need to focus on that. Young people thinking a candidate is cool does lead to votes and support. And it leads the country directly into danger for its existence, a la the cool candidates Clinton and, even cooler and more dangerous to the Constitution, Barack Obama.
I would put Walker up top if he decides to run. Dont agree with some of his views, but, a successful governor is a better candidate.
Rand Paul looks pretty good until one considers his take on Amnesty. That one issue trumps everything else. It does not matter how conservative or otherwise Christian a candidate is, if he supports turning the country over to permanent Democrat/Socialist/Communist Party rule then nothing else matters. Amnesty will do all that. Rand Paul is not stupid. Boehner is not stupid. McConnell is not stupid. Jeb Bush...etc. These people know what Amnesty will accomplish and they support it. They are thus effectively Democrat Party operatives. They will finish what GWB and BHO have started. Voting for any of them is no different from voting for Mrs. Clinton except that, if one of them becomes President the really hard parts, the Terror and the Purges will be delayed for perhaps 2-4 more years.
Shamnesty and CommieCare Paulista is a bridge to nowhere. Meh.
What in the hell has happened to FR? Is this a serious discussion saying Scott Walker is better than Ted Cruz or Rand Paul?
WTF has happened to this place?
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