Conservatives need to nut up and face the fact that our trade problems are rooted right here in America. We’re simply uncompetitive due to over regulation, over taxation, over unionization, and a generation too good to get their hands dirty.
I think Ted Cruz will lead us a good bit of the way out of the rat’s nest of over regulation and taxation. The people themselves have to break the illusion that every child should be a white collar worker.
I’ll be the first one to admit his TPP crap pissed me off. But he is the only person worth voting for to begin with and he is solid on the vast majority of issues that matter most. If we have any chance at all, it’s name is Ted Cruz.
As much as I like Ted Cruz, I will be the first to admit that he isn't perfect. One of his imperfections is that he is a solidly ideological free trader. Thus, his flawed positions on H1B visas and presidential trade authority.
Those are two things which congress will have to check and balance him on. Some of the lefties in congress will actually unite with conservatives to do so. What is more, Cruz actually has the temperament to listen to congress rather than simply ignore it.
Those two minor flaws are, compared to the flaws in any other candidate, well, minor.