I’m no Cruz hater.
But I cannot understand many FReepers infatuation with the junior freshman Senator from Texas.
We presently have the junior freshman Senator from Illinois in the White House.
Junior Senators with no executive experience are not Presidential timber.
False premise.
I don’t think that comparing their resume’s would turn out well for Obama.
You clearly are not familiar with Cruz’s resume and experience before becoming a senator. No comparison to the back bencher in the Illinois legislature.
I hear he drinks water, too, just like Obama.
He speaks directly, candidly and well on Conservative issues without the need of a teleprompter. Something far too few Republicans seem capable of. Also he was an Adjunct Professor teaching Supreme Court Litigation. A little better than intro to Con Law that a vaunted "AP" part time lecturer so effectively used to make people believe he had a clue about the Constitution. The biggest thing is He is a Conservative!
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight D. Eisenhower had little or no political experience before becoming president, and they turned out to be pretty good chief executives, wouldn’t you say? It’s what they believe in and the vision they have to lead the nation that counts. There are plenty of experienced politicians out there I would never want to see in the White House, so your premise that experience matters before assuming the presidency is not always true.
Yes. I see. Obama certainly would have been much better had he been in the senate for many more years. Like graham or McCain for instance
Lack of senatorial experience is the problem
Oy vey!
That all depends on the strength of one’s character and that’s the advantage the junior senator from Texas has over all the rest.
Quite right.
Obama is the president with the second smallest degree of experience in government in our history, and look what a mess he's made of it.
Of course the only president with even less such experience, a single term in the House, was A. Lincoln. Oh, wait...
We presently have a black man in the White House...
Does this mean that all men and all blacks are unfit for office?
Hmmmm ..?? Guess you don’t know anything about Senator “Ted” Cruz; let me enlighten you.
He is a graduate of two Ivy League Colleges, where he got exceptional grades .. and one of his professors said Ted was the most brilliant Law student he had ever had. Ted knows the Constitution backwards and forwards; and he doesn’t play political games with it, unlike the “Senator from Illinois”.
During Ted’s time at both colleges, he was the DEBATE CHAMPION .. meaning he knows how to speak without pandering or slobbering all over people. He’s a no-nonsense guy who loves and honors America, and he believes in the American people.
The left HATES Senator Cruz because when he was Solicitor General (highest judicial office) of the State of Texas, it was Senator Cruz who went before the Supreme Court and argued the case of Bush v. Gore - AND WON ..!!! Which gave us President Bush (43).
That singular act has caused the LEFT to become ballistic whenever the name of Cruz is mentioned.
If Senator Cruz was president, we would not be in this horrible mess - which was caused by the “Senator from Illinois”.
“Junior Senators with no executive experience are not Presidential timber.”
Junior Senators are apparently not all the same. In our history experience, executive or otherwise has not necessariarly been an indicator of a good President. Senator Cruz is and has indicated he has the qualities to be more than a “good” President. Character counts.
OK, not-a-Cruz-hater:
Who would YOU prefer as our next president?
I'm perfectly fine with my "junior" Sen Cruz proving that premise wrong.
Principled Junior Centers certainly are presidential timber. But someone explain how Obama got elected. lol
Maybe it's because he seems to have the blood of the Framers running through his veins, and is the closest thing to Ronaldus Magnus we conservatives have seen since Sarah Palin started short circuiting liberals' brains.
But you can keep belittling him with appellations like, "junior freshman", despite the fact that he was the Solicitor General of Texas, and argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, before running for the Senate.