One Fact Everyone Has Forgotten About Ted Cruz Might Be His Key To The White House

Western Journalism ^ | October 1, 2015 | Randy DeSoto

[Isara]

Almost all of Cruz’s initiatives received unanimous support.

Many may not realize that before Ted Cruz was a U.S. Senator he had a lengthy career in various positions, one of which makes him particularly well suited to roll back the explosion of regulations under the Obama administration.

Following Cruz’s graduation from Harvard Law School in 1995, stints as a clerk for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and in the practice of private law, the Texan ultimately ended up serving in George W. Bush administration in the early part of the last decade.

PJ Media reports that Cruz, as director Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, was known as a consensus builder. “Almost all of Cruz’s initiatives received unanimous support among both Republicans and Democrats” who comprised the five members of commission, two of whom served in Bill Clinton’s administration.

Cruz fought successfully against weighing down the blooming e-commerce business (including the explosion of companies like Amazon and eBay) with new regulations designed to protect old brick-and-mortar stores.

Another of Cruz’s favorite fights was taking on crony capitalism. According to PJ Media:

Cruz also sent dozens of letters to states to fight new efforts to enshrine crony capitalism. Cruz sent a letter to New York to challenge a legislative attempt to impose a “minimum markup” on the sale of gasoline. This bill was a naked attempt to force gas stations to raise prices, but was couched as helping consumers. Cruz also sent letters to promote competition in financial services and energy markets. Through it all, Cruz kept his focus on the ultimate little guy — the consumer.

Over a decade later, presidential candidate Cruz has remained faithful to stand against crony capitalism. As reported by Western Journalism, he told a Wall Street crowd this summer:

The simple reality is big business does great with big government…I’ll give you a statistic that you’ll never hear President Obama or Hillary Clinton admit: the top 1 percent, the millionaires and billionaires Obama constantly demagogues today earn a higher share of our income, than any year since 1928.

“There is a tendency in Washington to support giant corporations,” he said, adding that “the Democratic party is the party of the rich, big government and cronyism. That is the Democratic Party.”

Cruz offered the example of Dodd-Frank, which “killed hundreds and even thousands of small financial institutions” because they could not comply with its onerous regulations, which the candidate said Wall Street helped write.

“I don’t think government should be playing the role of either Santa Claus or thug,” the senator said.

[Sal]

I know this is not what you are proposing, but IF both of them are being damaged or hindered too much by GOPEE stooge questioners, Trump could buy the time and put the two man debate on at the same time as the GOPEE debate. Can you imagine the difference in audience numbers...

[Jack Black]

Ted's problem is getting elected. No doubt he'd be effective in many ways once in office. But so far he's not been able to break into double digits anywhere except Texas, and floats between fourth and eighth place.

As some of the other candidates doing even worse drop out I think he might pick up some support. Jindal and the other 1%ers should go. Even Bush might go soon, his trend is totally negative. Drudge was showing him at 4%, that's not what his million dollar donors are paying for!

So, Ted's doing better than many, but still hasn't made any moves that make me think he will be the eventual nominee.

[ForYourChildren]

Thanks for including the link.

[Jack Black]

Ted's problem is getting elected. No doubt he'd be effective in many ways once in office. But so far he's not been able to break into double digits anywhere except Texas, and floats between fourth and eighth place.

As some of the other candidates doing even worse drop out I think he might pick up some support. Jindal and the other 1%ers should go. Even Bush might go soon, his trend is totally negative. Drudge was showing him at 4%, that's not what his million dollar donors are paying for!

So, Ted's doing better than many, but still hasn't made any moves that make me think he will be the eventual nominee.

[midlander]

Brilliant!

[Carl Vehse]

Don’t expect the fifth-column leftist media buttboys and whores (e.g., David, Scott, Lester, Gwen) to inform the electorate about the relevant experience of Ted Cruz.

[altura]

That’s ridiculous. Ted Cruz performed admirably in that administration and if you are implying that George W. Bush was some kind of crook, that’s just crazy.

He may not have been the ideal conservative president but he was a good, decent man ... the like of which we have not seen in 7 years.

[altura]

I can only assume one of two things:

You have never actually listened to Ted Cruz speak, or,

You are so enamored with another candidate that you are willing to make an unfounded remark about Cruz.

[Isara]

First He’d have to find it.

With our help.

[Isara]

You’re welcome!

[trisham]

I don’t think He needs our help.

[American Faith Today]

See, I don’t think Trump is all that dynamic as a speaker.

I mean, to each his own, and I know, well, not necessarily that I’m in the minority, but I know a lot of people will and do disagree.

I listen or watch some of the beginnings of his speeches/YouTube videos (admittedly not all) and it’s like it takes him half an hour (okay exaggerating a bit) to start to get to a relevant point. To me he just kind of meanders along talking about how well he’s doing in the polls and how poorly someone else is doing and how everything is great with him, etc, etc.

I certainly don’t hear any real SUBSTANCE or anything delivered in the tone that a Reagan did or that even Cruz does.

To me, Trump shot out of the gates based on two factors- yes his tough talk. But also his celebrity status. We go crazy over celebrities in this country. Even when it comes to voting for them or supporting them for president and even amongst conservatives it would seem.

[mkjessup]

That’s ridiculous. Ted Cruz performed admirably in that administration

Political reality = If America does not want another Bush in the White House, promoting the idea that you were part of the last one is political suicide. If Americans wanted another Bush and the people who inhabit Bush administrations, we would see Jeb soaring in the stratosphere

and if you are implying that George W. Bush was some kind of crook, that’s just crazy.

I'm not implying that at all. What I will SAY is that GWB was as much a creation and tool of the GOPe as any mewling RINO, it was thanks to his buddy Karl Rove that the elitists took complete and total control of the Republican Party, and it was thanks to GWB that our Republic came under the boot of the fascist minded Department of Homeland Security, it's vile little cousin the TSA, and thanks to that so-called 'Patriot Act' (which was not at all patriotic), our freedoms and liberties under the Constitution have been trashed. You can tell me that GWB did all those things with the 'best of intentions' but the reality is that HIS administration provided the tools of political oppression that Obama has been more than happy to use to go after all who oppose him.

He may not have been the ideal conservative president but he was a good, decent man ... the like of which we have not seen in 7 years.

"Not the ideal conservative president"? BWHAHA!! Oh you do have a sense of comic timing! In case you missed the memo, GWB turned out to be just as big a spender as that other liberal loser from Texas (LBJ), he never even found his veto pen until 2006, and while there is no question that GWB loved our troops and did all that he could in that arena, his foreign policy resulted in way too many of them being killed and maimed. Examples:

Afghanistan - trying to embark on a 'nation building' project in that Godforsaken hell hole was a mistake from the beginning, our sole mission should have been to destroy the Taliban completely, along with any and every possible military asset they possessed, KILL Osama bin Laden (instead of letting him escape into Pakistan, a direct result of GWB's good friend General Tommy Franks screwing the pooch and failing to commit sufficient troops) and then: get our troops OUT. We've been in Afghanistan for damn near 15 years now, and what do we have to show for it, except for our military being ordered to look the other way while those Afghani savages rape little boys?

You want more?

While (in my opinion) toppling Saddam Hussein was NOT a bad thing (had we not gone after Saddam there would be not one but THREE nations in that region racing for a nuclear capability, i.e., Iraq, Iran and LIBYA), the follow up was a total Mongolian cluster f--k. Had we employed the MacArthur model which worked successfully in Japan to rule Iraq until they returned to social, economic and political stability, we would not be witnessing the slow motion breakup of Iraq right now.

As for Iran? After taking out Saddam, GWB lost his balls when it came to Iran, he talked the big talk about "not letting Iran obtain a nuclear weapon" but he never walked the walk, and we can see the results of that now.

And North Korea? How did those 'Six Party Talks' work out? So far as Kim Jong Il and his insane offspring Kim Jong Fat Boy, they worked out real good, as North Korea now has a rudimentary nuclear capability. But GWB's screwup in North Korea doesn't end there, when he read a book written by a North Korean defector by the name of Kang Chol-Hwan (The Aquariums of Pyongyang) which detailed his horrific life in the North Korean torture camp system, he got an invite to meet with GWB in the White House where they discussed what might be done to help the North Korean people. They spent a half hour talking which is a good block of time when you're the President of the United States. So what did GWB do to 'help' the North Korean people?

He signed off on his State Department taking North Korea OFF the list of state sponsors of terrorism in 2008, his final year in office, which further empowered and enabled Kim Jong Il in the internal torture of his people, and the periodic external aggressions against South Korea.

Heckuva job Georgie.

[Svartalfiar]

Ted's problem is getting elected. No doubt he'd be effective in many ways once in office. But so far he's not been able to break into double digits anywhere except Texas, and floats between fourth and eighth place.

I'm pretty sure Ted'll do just fine. Every other candidate has had a fast rise, followed by a hard fall (Walker/Perry are out of the running even!), the one exception being Trump. Half of his poll is cause he's a celebrity, the other half is cause he's been so brash and anti-Dem. But he doesn't have nearly the conservative background that Cruz does, and Trump certainly hasn't been working to get the ground game out and convincing voters to actually vote. Cruz has been building up quite the local offices and social media presence.

[theymakemesick]

Bookmark post 33, heck of a good one, mkjessup. Thanks!

[mkjessup]

Thank you FRiend. It may irk the GWB groupies to hear the truth about him, but his legacy was to weaken our Constitution, and to empower our domestic enemies who are now working non-stop to finish burying our Republic.