Posted on 11/26/2015 11:59:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A month ago I predicted a Cruz-Rubio ticket. Now that Cruz has overtaken Carson to run neck-and-neck with Trump in the Iowa Quinnipiac University poll, Cruz is looking a lot like a winner. Here are my top 10 reasons to back him.
10. He really knows economics--not the ideologically driven pablum dished out at universities, but the real battlefield of entrenched monopolies against entrepreneurial upstarts. As Asheesh Agarwal and John Delacourt reported in this space, he did a brilliant job at the Federal Trade Commission: "Cruz promoted economic liberty and fought government efforts to rig the marketplace in favor of special interests. Most notably, Cruz launched an initiative to study the government’s role in conspiring with established businesses to suppress e-commerce. This initiative ultimately led the U.S. Supreme Court to open up an entire industry to small e-tailers." Anyone can propose tax cuts. It takes real know-how to cut through the regulatory kudzu that is strangling America enterprise.
9. He really knows foreign policy. He is a hardline defender of American interests, but wants to keep American politics out of the export business. That's why neo-conservatives like Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post and Kimberly Strassel at the Wall Street Journal keep sliming him. The Bushies started attacking Cruz a year ago, when he stated the obvious about the Bush administration's great adventure in "democratic globalism": "I think we stayed too long, and we got far too involved in nation-building….We should not be trying to turn Iraq into Switzerland." He's not beholden to the bunglers of the Bush administration, unlike the hapless Marco Rubio.
8. He really knows the political system. As Texas solicitor general, he argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and won five of them. How many other lawyers in the United States have gone to the Supreme Court nine times on points of Constitutional law? The best write-up I've seen on his brilliance as a Constitutional lawyer came from the liberal New Yorker--grudging praise, but praise nevertheless. Some of his legal work was brilliant, displaying a refined understanding of separation of powers and federalism. If you want a president who knows the mechanism of American governance from the inside, there's no-one else who comes close to Cruz.
7. He's an outsider, and America needs an outsider. The public thinks that Washington is corrupt, and it IS corrupt. The banks are corrupt, the defense industries (with their $1.5 trillion budget for a new fighter plane that won't fly) are corrupt, the tech companies (run by patent trolls rather than engineers) are corrupt, the public utilities are corrupt. The American people want a new broom. But it helps to put it in the hands of someone who knows his way around the broom closet.
6. Trump and Carson aren't serious candidates. Carson is an endearing fellow who has no business running for president: apart from his medical specialty, his knowledge of the world is an autodidact's jumble of fact and fantasy. Donald Trump inherited money and ran a family business: never in his life did he have to persuade shareholders, investors, directors, or anyone else to work with him. At best, he knew how to cajole and threaten. It's been his way or the highway since he was a kid, and that's the worst possible training for a U.S. president.
5. Cruz is in but not of the system. The distinguished conservative scholar Robert P. George mentored him at Princeton and the flamboyant (but effective) liberal Alan Dershowitz taught him at Harvard Law School. Both agree he was the smartest student they ever had. An Ivy League education isn't important unless, of course, you don't have one: to run the United States, it helps to have dwelt in the belly of the beast. Cruz came through the elite university mill with his principles intact, and a keen understanding of the liberal mentality.
4. He's got real grit--call it fire in the belly, but Cruz wants to be president and wants us to want him to be president. Determination is a lot more important than charm, where Cruz won't win first prize. When it comes down to it, Americans don't want a charming president, but a smart, tough and decent one. Marco Rubio, the Establishment's last hope after Jeb Bush's belly-flop, is instantly recognizable as the tough-guy hero's cute younger brother. Either Cruz or Fiorina would fill out the ticket.
3. He knows how to run a real campaign as opposed to a flash-in-the-pan media event. Cruz has boots on the ground, an organization of people who believe in him and raise money at twice the rate of Rubio--with an average $66 donation.
2. He's a true believer in the United States of America. His love for his country and belief in its prospects are impassioned and unfeigned. He's ambitious, but his ambition stems from a desire to serve, where he believes that he is uniquely qualified to serve.
And the top reason to vote for Ted Cruz is:
He can beat Hillary Clinton. Not just beat her, but beat her by a landslide. Mrs. Clinton isn't that smart. She looks sort of smart when the media toss her softballs, but in a series of one-to-one, nowhere-to-hide presidential debates, Cruz would shred her. Cruz was the top college debater in the country. He knows how to assemble facts, stay on message, anticipate his opponent's moves and neutralize them. He's a quarter-century younger than Mrs. Clinton, smarter, sharper, and better prepared. He's also clean as a whistle in personal life and finances, while the Clintons could reasonably be understood to constitute a criminal enterprise.
Great point ALWAYS OVERLOOKED ISSUE,even though I like Cruz on other issues as well
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Cruz is a leader now, he was one of the very few sometimes the only one in the Senate to make a stand against Obamacare, Executive Amnesty and he's taken it to leadership more than once. Cruz is the most conservative candidate we have had since Reagan and he is ready to lead and be President of the United States. I don't get how being under Donald Trump, a man who was a liberal on and off again for the majority of his life, voted for Obama and backed the Clintons and Pelosi would make Cruz a better leader for the US?
Excellent Point!!!
It is. They are trying to equate hum to the trust fund babies that do nothing with their lives.
I think the Walters interview set them straight on the incredible work ethic he has , and instilled in his children.
OK, Brothers and Sisters, by what mechanism does the executive branch have any sway over Congress? It certainly isn’t the Vice-President/President of the Senate. I believe it was James Madison who pointed that out. Congress can have a hairy canary anytime it so chooses and there ain’t squat that the executive branch can do about it. Or did I miss something?
Do you think Cruz would buy into being second fiddle in a cat-herding exercise?
I guess you have never been in real estate development. Its all about persuasion. Getting permits, dealing with unions, negotiating contracts, dealing with inspectors. Its never ending schmooze and a lot of it with govt.
No, I mean Rubeo. The spelling is intentional.
Oh I think there is plenty of schmoozing so was fairly shocked at the opinion that DJT is a lightweight in the persuasion business. The writer obviously has no clue what it takes to succeed in such a business...either that or he was just more concerned with building up Cruz.
His stated desire to increase Hb1 visas is utter nonsense. I’m not sure if that remains his position, but I hope not.
I’m also pretty sure that no one has voted on TPP yet as it has not come up for a vote.
Only TPA has, and as far as I know he voted for it, then against it.
The worst thing Cruz has done is vote for the Corker bill. That was pitiful. That vote was pure kabuki theater.
The thing is - if he’s so smart then why did he vote for those things?
I still don’t know what to think of him. He is clever with words whereas Trump just blurts it out, like it or not. Easier to trust what he says.
A Cruz/Rubio ticket reminds me of the Reagan/Bush ticket. Great guy on the top of the ticket, second rate veep. It may turn out this way and it worked well for Reagan’s eight years. The problem is it left the GOP with a second rate candidate after Reagan left office. Given recent history the veep certainly isn’t likely to win after 8 years of an incumbent — the reason it’s beyond utterly foolish to suggest that a Trump/Cruz ticket would be great because Cruz would take office after eight years of Trump — but Rubio as veep leaves the GOP being led again by GOPe. It puts us back to where we started.
I do not know. I don’t really have much of a problem with his TPA vote, but the Corker bill vote just plain sucks.
That vote could have extremely serious consequences. Maybe it won’t but maybe it will.
That vote has made me wonder if Cruz is just another actor in the GOPE kabuki theater.
I don’t think he is, but I can’t say for a fact that he isn’t.
I would still vote for him, but that is a big ? for me.
As far as Trump goes, I do not believe he is lying to me when he speaks.
He’s too plain spoken to be a liar. I would also vote for Trump no problem.
Anything is possible, but not probable.
This isn’t the same society we had in the early 90s.
The dems start with 45 percent of the national vote.
Yes, some blacks are waking up. But if the dems had better candidates than Hillary! and Bernie this would be a much different election, even after the damage Obama has done.
I am guilty of being pie eyed at times and thinking we could pull off a 16 year run.
The millennials are fickle. They follow the cult of personality candidate much more than older people. They were a major part of the unholy group that gave us 8 years of Obama.
I realise the democrats bench has been decimated by the reaction to the Obama administration but they are far from finished.
The evangelical voters are just as fickle as the younguns.
I personally know people who don’t vote if the candidate isn’t a strong enough Christian. Many of those did not vote for the Mormon Romney.
Look at all the racial problems Obie has caused and allowed to grow. And he still has another year to agitate things.
The longer we go, the more shenanigans the dems pull with elections. If things look bad they will pull out all the stops on voter fraud.
Just think about all the Latinos and muzzies Obie is bringing in.
The muzlims will be deemed naturalized citizens by the activist courts and SCOTUS will confirm it.
Result is millions more dem voters. And you know how fanatical muzlims can be.
I have had my hopes dashed to pieces too many times.
I’m like the girl who’s had 3 or 4 guys in a row tell her *sure I’ll respect you in the morning*, she knows the chances of that happening are close to zero.
Yes, anything is possible. But I prefer to not count any eggs before they are hatched and the next two SCOTUS appointments are critical.
We make the wrong appointments there and it doesn’t matter who wins the White House.
I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer but I’m at the age where reality has bitten hard.
I hope for the best but expect the worst. My fellow citizens rarely let me down.
The leftist MSM doesn’t talk about it because they know Trump is rolling, Cruz is gaining steam and Hillary! is very beatable.
I like CRUZ on some other issues as well, but his knowledge of the constitution and law are his crown jewels.
No more Roberts or kennedys. We need more Alitos and Thomas’s.
I beat that drum whenever and wherever I can.
I agree with your assessment on the importance of who will be nominated to the Supreme Court, and remember Donald Trumps sister is a judge. She was originally appointed by Reagan but Clinton appointed her in 1999. Article here http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/423196/trump-praises-his-sister-pro-abortion-extremist-judge-ramesh-ponnuru
That’s because you are late to the FR slang, have a lousy memory, just want to be persnickety.
I was aware of his sister but didn’t know about the Clinton connection. I suspect any judge appointed since the loons started being eligible, call it the last 40 years.
I don’t know why more people don’t think about SCOTUS more.
I have a less than high school education but figured out long ago that they were overturning every common sense law that was passed.
Are we to wait until the SCOTUS is as liberal as the SC of California?
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