Posted on 03/30/2015 7:27:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
DANA BASH, CNN: I want to read to you a description, a Harvard law graduate, 40 something years old, two young daughters, in the senate for only two years who thinks he can be president. I could be describing you; I could be describing Barack Obama.
SEN. TED CRUZ: True enough, but I think there are a lot more notable differences between us than the similarities.
DANA BASH: That is true, but, you know, one of the key things that we're already hearing is you don't have a lot of experience when it comes to being in federal office or being in office at all and this you're, you know, too young and too inexperienced for the job.
TED CRUZ: Dana, I think there are two sharp distinctions between where I am today and where Barack Obama was when he launched his campaign. Number one, in his time in the senate he had basically been a back bencher. He had not been leading on any issues. In my time in the Senate you can accuse me of being a lot of things but a back bencher is not one of them.
DANA BASH: That may be true, but the big criticism of President Obama especially as the years have gone on is he didn't have any experience in an executive function, he didn't run any organization and the same can be said about you. What experience do you have to be commander in chief of the United States military, for example?
TED CRUZ: Well, unlike Barack Obama, I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the senate. I spent 5 1/2 years as the solicitor general of Texas, the chief lawyer for Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Zing! They don't dare make an issue of what he said because it makes their boy friend look petty and small.
Cruz is very clever. I hope he is clever enough.
TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
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.
So, Dana, you and the rest of the media are finally admitting that Obama was not qualified?
Not only is TC not a community rabble-rouser, he genuinely loves America and what it stands for. Mr. Cruz will therefore do/advocate what is in the best interest of the country.
Dana should be ashamed of herself.
Regardless of the final result, having TC in the race is a huge plus for America. Finally we have an articulate and courageous spokesperson for common sense traditional American values.
I LOVE IT!!!!
Great answer, Senator Cruz.
My understanding is that the Solicitor General actually runs the Solicitor General’s office.
Which happens to be an executive function, right?
“Plus Dana..I still my NADS!!”
Dana Bash. What a name for a CNN stooge out to bash Cruz!
Hope she learned some lessons here in this interview, cause she got SCHOOLED!
Some big time liberals have come out and said that Cruz’s is definitely one of the smarter people walking around. You rarely ever hear him using any types of verbal graffiti when talking, trying to formulate a response. Unlike the current clown in the WH, who is incapable of using it as he formulates another lie.
Some clown on one of the CBS shows tried to get him, asking about obamacare and Cruz bitch-slapped him in about 20 seconds. They have tried to get this man and will begin to try even harder. If his recent appearances are any indication, they will fail and be made to look like the idiots they are.
Who knows, there may actually be one man who actually can “talk the talk and walk the walk”.
His goal is also to preserve the Republic as founded, not to FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE IT.
That is why the usual suspects (Media, RINOs, Dems) are frantically trying to torpedo his run as quickly as possible. The last thing they want is for Ted Cruz to get into the debate phase. He communicates clearly, and connects with people.
Rubio is on the Five today. Wonder if he will get the unexperienced mantra put on him or not since he has been a senator two years longer than Cruz?
Without his quota baby race card, Dorkbama is not qualified for a single job in the country.
Oh, forgot about all those ILLEGAL ALIEN jobs.
No wait, most of those jobs require real work. Physical work. So again, Dorkbama is unqualified.
This is hilarious. Cruz’s executive inexperience actually is a legitimate concern, but the mainstream media can’t go there because their hero is still inexperienced, 6+ years into his Presidency. This will be Scott Walker’s main line of attack against Cruz, while Cruz will highlight his steadiness on the issues against Walker’s wishy-washiness. The leftist media will be utterly confused by the whole thing. They can’t touch the inexperience issue, and can’t figure out the positions on the issues. As usual, they will focus on personal attacks.
Cruz (should have said): "When did someone ever criticize President 0bama for not having experience? When did you ever criticize President 0bama, Dana? Well, when?
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