Posted on 03/24/2014 10:56:02 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
It was inevitable.
As was the case with Ben Carson, a grassroots effort to draft Sen. Ted Cruz has been launched by those eager to see the Texas Republican and his plainspoken policy prepare for and enter the 2016 White House race. The earlybird political action committee founded by one Raz Shafer - a former Cruz staffer - is on message and succinct.
“It’s time for Americans to kick-start a national campaign to draft Ted Cruz. We can’t sit on the sidelines and allow a repeat of 2008 and 2012. That’s exactly what Hillary Clinton and the Democrats want us to do. It’s also what Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and the rest of the Republican establishment wants,” Mr. Shafer notes in his outreach at, yes, RunTedRun.com which is careful not to appear as anything official.
Yet.
But the Fort Worth-based conservative is optimistic and eager, and of course there’s a public petition to sign.
“Our goal is to collect 1 million signed petitions this year to serve as the backbone of a campaign that will culminate with Ted Cruz taking the Oath of Office as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. It’s time for conservatives to be proud of their vote again,” they advise.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
He isn’t! I want my presidents BORN in the United States, not CANADA or Kenya.
I watched his Berkeley appearance and I was very impressed. He seems as intelligent as Newt, without the bombast. Paul thinks things through and has plans. While I may not agree with everything he proposes, I am willing to hear him out. He has reasons for his positions and believes what he says. I see all the distortions about his positions to downright lies. If you want to know where he stands on something, just ask him. Read what he has said (in context of course).
I have found no deal breakers as of yet. The more I hear, the more impressed I get.
later
Oooo, I like it!
I think the local dog catcher would have won in 1980 after the Carter fiasco with economy, interest rates, inflation and Iran hostages.
In 1984, Reaganomics was working, so we had a candidate with proven record.
Your thoughts parallel mine. I have not yet seen a deal breaker with Rand Paul. But elections are long time away.
I’m *very* interested in what that LA artist is doing with Ted. May be as important as reverbs out of Iowa and NH.
Or born on earth even, or must be human.
Yeah boy!
Well, if you are going to argue a point about legality, you’d better be able to back it up with the legal precedent.
So far, the birthers, have not been able to do that.
I am strongly in favor of importing SKILLED immigrants. Without them we would not have beat Hitler in development of nuclear bomb. Here is a list of highly skilled immigrants who are contributing to the US economy.
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize for Physics, (1983).
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, (2009).
Amartya Sen, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, (1998).
Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine, (1968).
Sabeer Bhatia created and founded Hotmail. Sun Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla. The Intel Pentium processor, that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered by Vinod Dham.
Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard's E-speak project. Four out often ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians.
Satish K. Tripathi, President of University at Buffalo
S. Shankar. Sastry, Dean of College of Engineering at University of California Berkeley [1]
Renu Khator, Chancellor of the University of Houston System and President of the University of Houston
Beheruz Sethna, President of the University of West Georgia
Molly Easo Smith, President of Manhattanville College
Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School
Vijay K. Dhir, Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Pradeep Khosla, Dean of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Kumar, Associate Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Pennsylvania[2]
Dipak C. Jain, Dean of INSEAD and former Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Dinesh D'Souza, President of The King's College
Dr. Paul Shrivastava, Distinguished Professor and Director, David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia University
Pramod P. Khargonekar, Dean of College of Engineering at University of Florida
Jamshed Bharucha, President of Cooper Union.[3] Formerly Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at
Dartmouth College and Provost at Tufts University
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Formerly Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2001–2009) at Harvard University.
S. Narayanan, Dean of College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University [5]
Sunil Kumar, Dean of Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago
Narayan Hosmane, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Illinois University (winner of Humboldt Prize [twice] for Chemistry, [2001 & 2008]).
Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago; also International Monetary Fund Chief Economist (winner of Fischer Black Prize).
Satya N. Atluri, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at University of California, Irvine
Alok Bhargava, Professor of Economics at University of Houston
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit, Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Madhu Sudan, Professor of Computer Science at MIT (winner of the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize and Gödel Prize).
Anant Agarwal, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT
C. R. Rao, Professor at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo (awarded the National Medal of Science)
Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Govt. of India)
Ravindra Khattree, Professor of statistics at Oakland University
Akhil Amar, Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Salman Akhtar, Professor at the Jefferson Medical College
Vikram Amar, Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law.
P.S. Ayyaswamy, Professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Homi K. Bhabha, Professor at Harvard University
Sugata Bose, Professor of History Harvard University
Raj Chetty, Professor of economics at Harvard University. As of today, he is the youngest person 'at the age of 29' to ever receive tenure of professorship in the Department of Economics at Harvard. He is one of the top 8 young economists in the world.
V.S. Ramachandran Professor with the Psychology and Neurosciences University of California San Diego
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, Professor of microbiology at University of Illinois at Chicago
Ashok Gadgil, Professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
K. Mani Chandy, Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology.
Rakesh Jain, Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School
Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations at University of Chicago.
V. V. Chari, Professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.
Aravind Joshi, Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Kailath, Professor of Engineering at Stanford University
M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware.
Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
C.K. Prahalad, Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor at Columbia University.
Krishna Saraswat, Professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.
Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics at Columbia University
Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, Professor of economics at Columbia University.
Abhay Ashtekar, Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University.
Anirvan Ghosh, Professor at the University of California, San Diego
Vijay Vazirani, Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Umesh Vazirani, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ashok Das, Professor of Physics at University of Rochester
Jagdish Shukla, Professor at George Mason University
Pulickel M. Ajayan, is a professor of Material Science at Rice University
J. N. Reddy, Professor and holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Jaishree Odin, Professor of post-modern literary theorist at the University of Hawaii
Ravi Jagannathan, Professor at the Kellogg School of Management
Vijay Prashad, Professor of International Studies at Trinity College.
Mriganka Sur, Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Shrinivas Kulkarni, Professor of astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech.
Nazir Jairazbhoy, Professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at University of California at Los Angeles.
Avinash Kak, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Ramesh Agarwal, William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Ishwar K. Puri, N. Waldo Harrison Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech
Shwetak Patel, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at University of Washington (Awarded MacArthur Fellowship).
12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin; 38 percent of doctors in America are Indian; 36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians; and 28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.
I stand by my statement/
Ka D’Argo for president!
I agree with your observation.
It is still too early for actual candidates to start joining in races, but it is not too early to start preparing for races.
It’s only 7 months or so until the 2014 elections.
After that, it starts.
All 5 of your proposals will not pass the congress.
Obama is still the potus for 3 years and he will veto even if congress passes the proposals.
Wishful thinking does not accomplish anything.
What is your next idea?
He and Sarah Palin (who both have been sabotaged to the best of the mains stream press’s ability) would be the team I would choose as my first choice.
For the sake of America no more Bush’s, Clinton or Kennedy’s.
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