Posted on 06/15/2015 2:05:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A new poll shows GOP voters are no closer to picking a front-runner from among a crowded and growing Republican presidential field, with retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson emerging with a narrow lead over 15 potential rivals.
Carson topped the 2016 field with 11% support from Republican and Republican-leaning voters, according to a national Monmouth University poll released Monday. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was a close second with 10%, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who were tied at 9%.
The biggest winner of all, however, was a blank: Twenty percent of surveyed voters said they were undecided.
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Apparently of all the candidates he is disliked the least.
People just don’t realize how much government experience he has.
Work experience
US senator from Texas, 2012–present:
Solicitor general of Texas, 2003–2008
Official in administration of President George W Bush, 2001–2003
Director of policy planning, Federal Trade Commission; associate deputy attorney general.
Adviser to George W Bush presidential campaign, 1999–2000
… helped craft victorious argument in Bush v Gore
Clerk for US supreme court chief justice William Rehnquist, 1996
He’s a surgeon.
Voters probably just establishing their anti-racism credentials before all else. It really doesn’t hurt particularly IMO until they mindlessly start voting for the minority candidate.
Naps, like I said the other day, you post more about Cruz than about your own candidate. Ted must scare you to death.
He would make a great vise-president this time around!
Good Lord. About half those people I’ve never even heard of.
Vice presidents become presidents.
Ben Carson is not presidential material, and especially not in his 70s.
Click this link and look at the GOP field. You’ll be
lucky if you’ve heard of 20%.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/candidates.phtml#REP.2
Don’t forget that these polls make RCP “scientific”. No wonder guys like Cruz constantly poll so low.
BTW, how can Carson be leading when just last week, he was losing campaign staff hand over fist?
Oh wait, it is MSNBC. Never mind.
More evidence that Mitt Romney will be the nominee.
People are sick of the GOP politicians now "running", and they haven't even started yet.
The nominee will not be chosen for 400 days. There is no way that the attention span of the American voter + the relentless media abuse will allow any of the current candidates to survive.
Yep, Cruz grew up in an UPPER Middle Class family whose parents frequented the Hamptons. Upon his arrival in HS, Cruz was already wearing Gucci clothes. He met his wife Heidi, the head cheer leader, whose parents, NWO types of course, were proud 1%er’s.
In College, where he was accepted because of the silver spoon he had in his mouth, he was on the debate team where, since he was probably so wealthy he bought off his competitors, he was the top performer.
Later in life, Cruz again, whose bio is LESS THAN STELLAR, (oh, did I mention his wife worked for Goldman Sachs?) bought his way as the Solicitor General and then to his Senate Seat.
All the while, his father, who never lived the American dream, sipped mai tais on the porch.
Naps, does this bio suffice for Cruz?
Seriously, are you not aware of Cruz’s EXCEPTIONAL bio or are you biased? Cruz can match Ben punch for punch...including the part where his father fled to this country after being tortured by Castro. But, you’re right...nobody has the bio of Carson.
Hey, did Rand ask you to post the NBC thing? Bringing back the old talking points. Lame.
I am also a Houstonian, I know where Cruz grew up.
If you think that the man that Professor Dershowitz considers possibly his smartest student ever, got into Harvard law and Princeton because his parents were upper middle class, then you are an idiot.
“After being imprisoned and tortured by the Batista regime, the elder Rafael Cruz came to America on a student visa with nothing but $100 sewn into his underwear. He made his way through the University of Texas by washing dishes.
Eleanor Darragh, Cruz’s mother, was a working-class Delaware native who studied math at Rice University. Cruz once told a tea party group that his mother refused to learn how to type, so that when men asked her to type things up for her she could say, “I would love to help you out, but I don’t know how to type. I guess you’re going to have to use me as a computer programmer instead.”
Cruz was raised in Houston (all he remembers about Canada: “It was cold.”) In high school he was part of a group sponsored by the Free Enterprise Institute that learned the Constitution by heart and traveled the state giving speeches on conservative ideas.
At Princeton he was a champion debater. From there he went to Harvard Law School. “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant,” Prof. Alan Dershowitz told the National Review. Cruz was a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.
After law school, Cruz clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig on the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. In 1996, he became Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s first Hispanic clerk.”
He’s spent decades on Earth and has shown his ignorance about a number of things, including the Second Amendment, many times.
But he said something about Obama once. He’s African American.
Many people think those things qualify him.
Well, he is a 63 year old doctor who just retired, so he thought that he would run for president of the United States, of course.
Here is more to show your idiocy about Cruz’s parents as the wealthy elites, the dad is now a Southern Baptist Minister.
“He had little more than $100 to his name, and he could barely speak English. But, by working seven days a week, he was able to graduate in 1961. In the early 1960s, Rafael Cruz was also beginning to start a family. He married and had two daughters, and he started to work in the energy industry. But the marriage ended after only a few years, and Cruz found himself at a difficult crossroads in his late twenties. (One of his daughters is now a physician in Texas; the other is deceased.) Cruz decided to move to New Orleans to take a new job, which is where he met his second wife, Eleanor Darragh, a computer programmer from Delaware, who was also working for an oil company.
They married, moved to Calgary, Alberta, and in late 1970 had their first and only child, Rafael Edward Cruz. They weren’t in Canada long, choosing to move to Houston, where they continued to work for oil companies.
Back in Texas, he became a permanent legal resident, and it wasn’t until 2005 that he formally became a U.S. citizen. “Oh, I know I should have done it sooner,” he says. “I love this country so much, but you cannot change the past.” It was also back in Texas, in 1975, when his life changed. After attending a Bible-study meeting with a colleague, he became a born-again Christian, leaving his days as a non-practicing Roman Catholic behind. “The people at the Bible study had a peace that I could not understand, this peace in the midst of trouble,” Cruz says. “I knew I needed to find that peace by finding Jesus Christ.” His son and wife followed him, becoming born-again Christians as well.
Around the dinner table, the talk was almost always about the Bible or the latest happenings in the Reagan administration.
His faith, he says, also saved him from becoming bitter and depressed when the oil industry sagged in the mid 1980s and his professional life hit a low point. “There was a big crash and many of my clients went bankrupt,” he says. “It got so bad that I had to close my business. I became a salesman here and there, and I started to build a ministry, as a sort of traveling preacher.”
Come again? Nothing against Ted but can you point me to one?
“So, how do you explain the “poll results” of TPA Walker and TPA Rubio?”
Better media coverage relating to their being the preferred glonalist candidates. Also, TPA Cruz doesn”t communicate as well. He comes off as a used car salesman. Not something that I believe he has a lot of control over; its just his mannerisms and bearing.
Actually Cruz sounds like a brilliant man who can communicate extraordinarily well, as one of the great debaters and constitutional lawyers of our time, but the phrase that you used is the one the media wants to sell.
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