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To: Yardstick; napscoordinator; laplata; SoConPubbie

What had Abraham Lincoln ever run before he was elected president? His only government experience of any kind was as a one term congressman. Yet he somehow won a civil war. John Kennedy never ran anything bigger than a torpedo boat prior to his presidency, but he started us towards the moon.


40 posted on 03/08/2015 10:54:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right. And even Reagan — he had been a governor but as a president was it his role as an executive or as a visionary that we appreciate him for?


45 posted on 03/08/2015 11:00:40 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What had Abraham Lincoln ever run before he was elected president?

Any old farmer in the 1800s could have ran for President. Different times then.

52 posted on 03/08/2015 11:12:52 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Yardstick; napscoordinator; laplata; SoConPubbie

“What had Abraham Lincoln ever run before he was elected president? His only government experience of any kind was as a one term congressman. Yet he somehow won a civil war. John Kennedy never ran anything bigger than a torpedo boat prior to his presidency, but he started us towards the moon.”

Good points. But it’s a straw man argument, and no matter what you say, it will be deemed irrelevant.

Do we want a RINO that has ran corporations or a state? We had that option last time. He lost against someone who not only never ran anything, but never had a real job either. So that constantly-harped on here argument is just a ploy to misdirect the conversation. And I will bring this up every time I see it ;)

I personally want someone with solid conservative values, that doesn’t flip-flop because it is politically expedient. Cruz has been tested in the corrupting environmental of DC and has proven himself to be incorruptible. That’s pretty impressive.


61 posted on 03/08/2015 11:25:57 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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