Ronald Reagan was governor of California for eight years.
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.
How about a man who only served one two-year term as a congressman?
Ted Cruz 2016: 7 Highlights From Pre-Politics Life of GOP Presidential Hopeful
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3251337/posts
How many Supreme Court victories did Mr. Obama have under his belt in 2008? How long was he Solicitor General of Illinois, Hawaii or Indonesia? 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? Know what that same professor said about Cruz?
I’m sorry but after B.H. Obama, it is totally irrelevant.
Your big hang up is that you dislike social conservatives.
Just be glad we aren’t talking about losers like Ron Paul and Ross Perot.
not relevant
not statistically significant
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.So, all of these US Senators made a mess of things due to a lack of executive ability, including James Monroe(Remember the Monroe Doctrine?) and John Quincy Adams?
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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Senator, 1790-1794
President, 1817-1825
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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
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...
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.
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
Cruz wins the nomination I look for him to get Walker or another Governor on the ticket with him.