Posted on 03/30/2015 3:12:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz defended his lack of executive experience this weekend saying that he is not a “community organizer.” The Texas senator explained that unlike Barack Obama, who also ran for president after one term in the Senate, he had accomplished more before becoming a legislator. Cruz pointed to his period as solicitor general of Texas—an answer that was itself a display of the debating talents his supporters say qualify him to be president. Cruz wasn’t answering the question as much as redefining the criteria. A lack of executive experience cannot be overcome by simply not having the attributes of the last president who also lacked it.
On the strict comparison, Cruz has more leadership experience than Obama had at the beginning of his presidential campaign. Over five and a half years as solicitor general, Cruz led a large agency with hundreds of lawyers. Obama never ran an equally complex organization.
But that’s not the operative issue when executive experience is the question. The practical question is whether he has the kind of skills the Republican governors he’s competing against use every day and which most closely approximate the ones a president needs....
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Good point!
Also note that just about the only domestic issue that Cruz - and any president - will actually have the constitutional authority to deal with if he is elected president is the US Mail Service (1.8.7).
Otherwise, most federal government services are actually based on state powers which the corrupt feds have been stealing from the states for the last 100+ years.
In other words, military matters aside, regardless that conservatives complain about Obama spending so much time on golf courses, doing so is arguably what the Founding States had in mind for a president.
Barack Obama had the neuticals to claim that his experience to be president came from running a “successful” presidential campaign.
Question authority. Especially of the MSM “tastemakers”.
The present WH didn’t have McConnell’s phone number and had to scramble after Nov, 2014’s election. Tell me how the Left plays ‘with’ others again.
Gotta believe Cruz would have a better time with congress than obozo does.
They may kiss his half breed ass but they hate his guts.
"But that’s not the operative issue when executive experience is the question. The practical question is whether he has the kind of skills the Republican governors he’s competing against use every day and which most closely approximate the ones a president needs."
None of the men I mentioned were governors.
Should he? NO!!
I dont WANT him to play well with others!
I sent him there to raise hell and FIGHT against the traitors trying to destroy our country (AKA our government)
I don’t know if you remember, but Obama claimed that running his first presidential campaign gave him enough executive experience.
If you are happy with the job our government is presently doing then please vote for Bush because he will “play nice” with his best buds in Washington.
BUT
If you are NOT happy with the job our government is doing and want someone to FIGHT LIKE HELL for you, your family and the beliefs and values that made this country the greatest in the world, then vote for Cruz!
The choice is yours America!
Agreed.
“A lack of executive experience cannot be overcome by simply not having the attributes of the last president who also lacked it.”
No, but it does immunize him from criticism by the mouthpieces that failed to criticize Obama for his lack of experience, like Slate.
Playing well with both the GOPe and the Democrats is what got us $18,000,000,000,000 in debt and on the quickening slide away from a Constitutionally limited government. I want an MMA fighter to take on the crowd of pro wrestling actors in Congress now.
They must be afraid ... really afraid.
Now, now, be nice. Obama surely does have some paper experience - like rolling papers for his weed and the Choom Gang.
Isn't that something? And now we know that during the campaign the only thing Obama ran was his mouth.
Eisenhower and Grant had plenty of executive experience, both having led huge armies in a politically complex environment. Eisenhower especially, having been effectively the chairman of the board of a fractious alliance. Nobody went to the White House with a better background, and he proved to be a superb President.
Grant and JFK were not especially good Presidents.
Lincoln is the single best case of a legislator becoming a truly great executive.
See my #27 in answer to another poster’s similar query.
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