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Ted Cruz 2016: Time to Channel Ronald Reagan?
The National Interest ^ | January 29, 2015 | W. James Antle III, managing editor, The Daily Caller

Posted on 01/28/2015 4:39:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: txhurl

Of course not.


41 posted on 01/28/2015 7:51:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Jim Noble

Obama won due to election fraud, good speech writers and being able to bring the message of communism to the masses.

McCain and Romney lost because of the above.

Cruz could win because he’s intelligent, won’t need all those speech writers, won’t need election fraud, could probably get enough to run a good election, whatever etc.

If he was VP for Palin, well...


42 posted on 01/28/2015 9:26:42 PM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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To: Vendome

Palin, bless her heart, is a good Conservative, however she is slightly off the wall. Trump is a narcissistic clown. Not only is Cruz intellectually sharper than Trump or Palin, he is far more articulate, balanced and has the gravitas needed to handle the problems we face.


43 posted on 01/28/2015 10:36:46 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar
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To: Pirate Ragnar

Dream team
Cruz for President
Walker for VP so he can give executive experience backup and to groom him for President
Palin for EPA head just to hear the liberals scream
Carson for Surgeon General
For Secretary of State Bolton
For Secretary of Defense Allen West
Secretary of Education Ward Connerly
Commerce should be Thomas Sowell or Rick Perry
Energy should be Palin or another pro Fracker
Justice should be Christie
Homeland Security should be Jindal
My $0.02


44 posted on 01/28/2015 11:53:21 PM PST by jackal7163 (If you are not willing to achieve victory at any cost, you are doomed to defeat!)
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To: Jim Noble

Hmmm... Let’s follow that line of thought...

Some Presidents that were first governors:

George W. Bush.
Bill Clinton.
Jimmy Carter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Woodrow Wilson.

Ronald Reagan is the only governor that became President since Calvin Coolidge that wasn’t a disaster...

I’m not so sure being governor first is such a big positive indicator you think it is.


45 posted on 01/29/2015 12:17:16 AM PST by DB
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To: wastedyears
McCain and Romney lost because of the above.

McCain lost because, despite what the voters of Arizona think, he is an idiot; an idiot of a very low character who had no idea of how to be in front of a national campaign.

Romney threw away his chance to win with a failure of nerve and no clear-cut ideology or belief system, which left him at the mercy of ridiculous consultants that led to an ineffectual campaign. "Mitt, The Mormon Milquetoast" says it all.

McCain and Romney did share one characteristic: fear. They were afraid to openly confront a fraud because he claimed to be a Negro. They were afraid the MSM would paint them as "racists," so they let the Magic Marxist Mulatto play the only card he has ever had: The Race Card. Racists are not nice people. Republicans think that they can win by being nice.

If this kind of match-up happens again, play The Race Card back in their face. Where was the bumper sticker that said "Obama: Half-Black, All Bad?"

46 posted on 01/29/2015 12:21:44 AM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Did you know that Professor Alan Dershowitz wouldn’t allow him in his classes because he knew him to be a fraudulent Affirmative Action poseur? "

Not surprised at this comment but I've never heard this before - any link to the story?

47 posted on 01/29/2015 3:13:07 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We done did that already

But the "Is Cruz Eligible" threads will continue on a regular basis right up until the election.

48 posted on 01/29/2015 3:15:40 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Cruz can play the race card.

I have a Hispanic name, but I don’t claim to be. I’m an American first, second and third (with New Yorker a very distant last).


49 posted on 01/29/2015 4:52:21 AM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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To: Fresh Wind; 2ndDivisionVet
But the "Is Cruz Eligible" threads will continue on a regular basis right up until the election.

As would some type of fallacious issue-based thread for any true conservative.

They're not called trolls for nothing, you know.

Expect the same behavior from the Media, there are evil people in the world and they do evil things.
50 posted on 01/29/2015 6:00:55 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: wastedyears

Cruz is also partly of Irish and Italian stock, and from the look of those high cheekbones, I’d say Cherokee Indian.


51 posted on 01/29/2015 7:59:14 AM PST by Kenny Bunk
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To: DB

OK.

Now list all the Senators who became President. Here, I’ve even drawn you some blank lines for your list:

__________________

__________________

__________________

There, I think that should about cover it, give or take 1 or 2 more.

Now.

Make the comment that senators becoming President is all that.

The point is, we’ve had 44 presidents.

Of that number, probably around 40 of them have been governors.

The fact that you can list 5 of them that you don’t like and that, therefore, governors don’t make good presidents either, is disingenuous to the max.

Why, in fact, you’re taking a page right out of the progressive playbook.

To wit, making a point, that in full context is meaningless. And running with it as if it’s a valid point.


52 posted on 01/29/2015 11:17:27 AM PST by hrh40
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To: Jim Noble
Almost every act a politician has done has hurt America and individual freedom and the free market.

I could do the best job ever as president much better than any of these evil goon politicians with “experience”.

1.domestic policy: repeal 16th an 17 th amendments and repeal all laws to 1900; that will get rid of the IRS and most government agencies and government

2. border ; put the Army on the border and deport all illegals.
3. Foreign policy : declare “Any organization or country attacking the USA will be instantly vaporized even if you use a proxy (The Bush Doctrine modified) like a terrorist group

I have no experience in government . What I am is a Republican and an American from Louisiana.Long live Dixie

53 posted on 01/29/2015 12:31:26 PM PST by Democrat_media (The media is the problem. reporters are just democrat political activists posing as reporters)
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To: hrh40; DB
The point is, we’ve had 44 presidents.

Of that number, probably around 40 of them have been governors.


Don't post an assertion unless you have the facts to back that assertion up!

Which makes the rest of your post just look silly!
Why, in fact, you’re taking a page right out of the progressive playbook.
:

To date, sixteen senators have also served as president of the United States. Three senators, Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama moved directly from the U.S. Senate to the White House.  

(Photo: Warren G. Harding. Senate Historical Office)

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James Monroe

Senator, 1790-1794

President, 1817-1825

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John Quincy Adams

Senator, 1803-1808

President, 1825-1829

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Andrew Jackson

Senator, 1797-1798; 1823-1825

President, 1829-1837

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Martin Van Buren

Senator, 1821-1828

President, 1837-1841

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William Henry Harrison

Senator, 1825-1828

President, 1841

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John Tyler

Senator, 1827-1836

President, 1841-1845

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Franklin Pierce

Senator, 1837-1842

President, 1853-1857

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James Buchanan

Senator, 1834-1845

President, 1857-1861

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Andrew Johnson

Senator, 1857-1862; 1875

President, 1865-1869

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Benjamin Harrison

Senator, 1881-1887

President, 1889-1893

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Warren G. Harding

Senator, 1915-1921

President, 1921-1923

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Harry S. Truman

Senator, 1935-1945

President, 1945-1953

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John F. Kennedy

Senator, 1953-1960

President, 1961-1963

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Senator, 1949-1961

President, 1963-1969

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Richard M. Nixon

Senator, 1950-1953

President, 1969-1974

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Barack Obama

Senator, 2005-2008

President, 2009- present

54 posted on 01/29/2015 12:56:45 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: hrh40

Hey genius,

First, I didn’t pick and choose. Those are ALL the governors that became President going back to Coolidge which goes back to the early 1900s.

Second, as pointed out elsewhere, there have been 16 senators that have become President. Since Coolidge there’s been 5 senators that became President and 6 governors that became President. Pretty equal mix.

Third, I was replying to another poster that said being a governor before becoming President was very important to him. I was pointing out that it wasn’t such a great indicator of quality.

Forth, you look like an arrogant ignorant ass when you post crap like that. With your “right out of the progressive playbook” and “To wit, making a point, that in full context is meaningless. And running with it as if it’s a valid point.” is in your face - go look in the mirror.


55 posted on 01/29/2015 1:21:05 PM PST by DB
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To: DB

And I can’t spell...


56 posted on 01/29/2015 10:53:50 PM PST by DB
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To: Jim Noble
You cannot name a single first-term US Senator elevated to the Presidency who did not make a mess of things due to lack of executive ability.

Cruz wins the nomination I look for him to get Walker or another Governor on the ticket with him.

57 posted on 01/30/2015 7:32:43 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: jackal7163
Justice should be Christie

Good choice, But I would have Mark Levin at Justice. Liberal heads would explode and everyone in this administration would be fearing Federal corruption charges!

58 posted on 01/30/2015 7:48:02 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: painter

Mail Levin is brilliant but I think he would be better at rousing the troops and they just extended his contact to 2020...


59 posted on 01/30/2015 1:44:34 PM PST by jackal7163 (If you are not willing to achieve victory at any cost, you are doomed to defeat!)
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