Whispers comparing Walker to Reagan.
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Scott Walker’s main problem is the Left hates him and they’ll make him more hated than Bush.
Whether his conservative message is enough to override national GOP leaders’ inclination to go with safe establishment moderate choice and whether he can attract a national following remains to be seen.
He would be a dream President but whether he can win the GOP presidential nomination as a governor from a mid-size Midwestern state is an open question.
Walker/West has a nice ring to it. I think it’s way past time to kick some a$$ and West just might be the perfect bad guy, if Walker isn’t too timid. I don’t want a Senator.
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[Ted] Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992. 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. In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton). Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship. Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.
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Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008. The office had been established in 1999 under to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction." As Solicitor General, Cruz would argue before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four.
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court. 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. 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."
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. 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.
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.
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, in which Cruz wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief.
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, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.
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 cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the International Court of Justice argued that the United States had violated a treaty by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision.
No, an aging Reagan got bamboozled into an amnesty deal he came to regret.
Walker is champing at the bit not only to legalize, and eventually give citizenship to, those already here, he also wants to stop illegal immigration by simply making it legal for “every Mexican” and other non-American who wants to come here to walk in legally.
2016 is going to be a pretty amazing year, I think. All the party’s “young guns” who weren’t quite ready to run in 2008 and 2012 are now coming into their primes.
Now, I’m sure we’ll have the usual FR rough-and-tumble about who’s the real deal and who’s a RINO, etc. (that’s part of the fun, LOL). But the sheer number of talented potential GOP choices out there compared to the last couple of turns will be something to behold. Cruz, Walker, Scott, Jindal, Rubio, Paul, Pence, etc.
If only he would drop his amnesty “Pathway to Citizenship” treasonous stupidity.
Walker/Cruz will be too volatile for the "middle" to take this time around. If we can get two good guys in now, and show the "independents" how it is done, they may warm up to Cruz in 2020.
I think Walker is by far the most tested and qualified GOP candidate...
He sucks on Shamnesty.
If not Ted Cruz, then whoever he supports.
I’m all in.. He is my guy, and has been after the full frontal assault by the best the Unions and Dems had to offer and failed in the Recall.. He’s clean.. How many can say that?