“I did not hear the speech, I don’t know much about the guy. But from what I have seen, he is good at rhetoric but has he ever run anything in his life? Like a state or a fortune 500 company. I am sick of rhetoric.”
I understand your question but wonder if that’s the only yardstick you would use to measure competence. Cruz has successfully argued more than one case in front of the Supreme Court. He was also the first Hispanic Solicitor General of Texas, the youngest solicitor General of Texas and the longest serving Solicitor General of Texas. Cruz has held positions in the DOJ and the FTC and was a domestic policy advisor to Bush during the 2000 campaign. He’s also taught Constitutional Law at UT.
I would saw the man has proven whatever he does, he does well and that his motivation to serve his country is very high.
Maybe that counts for something?
That is great. Thank you for sharing that.
Here is my general concern ( and not just about Cruz): We have seen eight years of “management” by someone who doesn’t know how to manage large organizations.
The key thing about Republicans is they tend to hire good people to surround them, not just policy wonks. Anyone who has been as first line supervisor understands that you need to be able to manage people and systems in any larger organization.
Your examples make me like him enough to actually spend an hour or so on the computer to learn more.
The bad news is that I live in MA. So in my lifetime of voting, the only election where my vote, as a conservative republican, mattered was the first Brown election.
So my support is for my own sanity alone.
Again, thank you for your post.