Posted on 03/23/2015 7:56:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) beginning his run for the Presidency today, I should make public the question I've suggested to reporters in private.
Senator Cruz is for certain going to be joined by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who will announce in a few weeks.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who I think is underrated in his bid for the Presidency even though Jeb Bush is intent on locking up Florida, will also most likely declare his candidacy.
All three of these men would make excellent Presidents. I know them personally. I backed them when they were at single digits in the polls. I pray for them regularly. I like them all.
Still, I think they have to answer a question those who come from Governor's Mansions will not. That question is this:
For six years, Republicans have said the nation made a mistake electing a one term Senator the President of the United States. Why should you, a one term Senator, be the GOP's nominee?
Given Republican rhetoric against President Obama for six years, it is fair and relevant. I look forward to their answers.
Easy answer.
It's not all about Republicans Mr. Erickson.
Apparently the author of the question fails to understand a big chunk of Americans became disgusted with Republicans and their get-along go-along liberalism.
I support Scott Walker... But, these attacks on our candidates (Walker and Cruz) need to stop... NOW!
I can understand that but why try to slap the guy down?
What has Marco Rubio done that qualifies him for GOP Presidential candidacy, other than lying to his voters by claiming he wasn't for amnesty, wasn't for doing anything until the borders were shut down, then those 12-15 million illegals needed to return and get in line behind those abiding by the law, then joins the open borders RINOs!!!!
What about that qualifies Rand Paul to be the GOP Presidential candidate besides declare he believes marriage should be decided by the states, ala abortion and legalizing pot????
um.. he did stuff before the senate.. that mattered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Legal_career
because he is the guy .....
the one whom most consistently shows he has balls
in virtually the entire U.S. Congress
totally unafraid of Obama or his henchwomen
The premise of Erick Erickson’s question is wrong.
Obama isn’t a terrible president because he only served one term in the Senate.
He’s a terrible president because he is an America-hating extreme leftist who never knew anybody who wasn’t a racist leftist America hater.
Obama is a terrible president because he has a staggering ignorance of American culture and history.
Obama is a terrible president because he is a megalomaniacal psychopath with delusions of Godhood.
Obama is a terrible president because he is intellectually lazy and has the emotional maturity of a 14-year-old.
And those are just some of the reasons.
To draw the conclusion that Obama is a terrible president because he’s only served one term in the Senate, and that Ted Cruz will also be a terrible president because he too has only served one term in the senate, shows an astonishing lack of analytical skill.
Because Obama’s core description is community organizer, aka socialist, aka thug. He share’s his God complex with the likes of Jim Jones, deliberately works to cripple the U.S.
Cruz actually is a United States Senator, one who takes the Constitution seriously, who learns every aspect of his job, who fights for America.
It would actually be hard to compare the two in any realistic fashion.
Erickson fails to make sense yet again, as at least with Cruz and Rubio, they have more on their resumes than did Obama did prior to being Senators - and Rubio held elected office long before being a U.S. Senator (including being Majority Leader and later the Speaker of the House in Florida), far more than Obama, so this article as a whole makes even less sense.
Because we know:
He has released his real birth certificate.
- Who he is
- Why his parents were
- Where he came from
- What he believes
- What he is for
- What he is against
- Where his loyalty is
- Which God he worships
...for a start
Cruz spent 5 years arguing cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Obama spent a semester lecturing bored law students about introductory constitutional law.
Cruz understands and respects the Constitution. Obama views the Constitution as an impediment.
[Why should you, a one term Senator, be the GOP’s nominee?]
“Why should Cruz be President? Let us count the ways...
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz 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 victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. 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 criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
When the media parrots, including Eric Erickson, can match Sen. Cruz’s resume they can ask a question such as that.
Thats why “Gov”sss ... CARTER, CLINTON, BUSH were all GREAT PRESIDENTS!!!!!!
What about any criticism? Is that approved?
Look, when ya get involved in politics all that goes along with it. Like bacon and eggs.
Well if he’s a conservative one term senator, maybe in 8 years he’ll be able to reverse everthing the socialist kenyan senator did.
“Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who I think is underrated in his bid for the Presidency...”
I really had no idea Erik Erickson was a worthless idiot.
Cruz actually practiced law, and on several occasions before the SCOTUS. Obama was only a community organizer.
Because Ted is an intelligent, America loving Senator, who is capable and willing to take on liberals in both parties and the media.
He’s not afraid to attack the hard issues, such as immigration, Obamacare, and the IRS.
So, yes, I’ve contributed already.
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy[38] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[7][5] 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.[39] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[39] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[40][41] Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[40]
Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."[35][42]
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[7][43] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."[21][44] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[11]
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.[11][45] Clerkships
Cruz whilst serving as Solicitor General Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995[8][11] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.[7] Cruz was the first Hispanic to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[46]
Private practice
After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, which is now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.[47] While with the firm, Cruz worked on matters relating to the National Rifle Association, and helped prepare testimony for the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.[48] Cruz also served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner's lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.[49]
Bush Administration
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.[47]
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.[11][50] Cruz recruited future Chief Justice John Roberts and noted attorney Mike Carvin to the Bush legal team.[48]
After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department[7][50] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.[7][21][50]
Texas Solicitor General
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,[8][51] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.[29][11] The office had been established in 1999 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.[48]
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.[8][21][32] 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.[52] 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."[52]
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.[32][53] 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.[32][54]
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the constitutionality of the 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.[21][32][11]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow,[21][11] in which Cruz wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states.[55] 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.[11][56]
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt 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.[8][21][32][11] With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate.[57][48] They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention.[58] Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.[57][48]
Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America,[51][59] by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,[60][61] and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.[62][63]
Private practice
After leaving the Solicitor General position in 2008, he worked in a private law firm in Houston, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, often representing corporate clients, until he was sworn in a U.S. Senator from Texas in 2013.[35][11][64] At Morgan Lewis, he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.[64]
In 2009-2010, while working for Morgan Lewis, Cruz formed and then abandoned a bid for state attorney general when the incumbent Attorney General Greg Abbott, who hired Cruz as Solicitor General, decided to run for re-election.[20]
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