He has never been an executive. History itself shows that executives are better presidents.
George Washington and Abe Lincoln weren't great presidents.
The number one qualification for president is of course where a candidate stands on the issues.
This must-have-been-an-executive low-info meme is for people who can't figure out the complicated issues and where the candidates stand on them.
Ted Cruz, as Solicitor General of Texas, led the office of 4,000 employees, including 700 lawyers.
During private practice at Morgan Lewis, Ted Cruz built their appellate practice to be one of the top 20 law firms on National Law Journal's "Appellate Hot List" in 2010.
Well just a small idea of Cruz experience....would certainly suggest he’d have no issue with delegating responsibility....
...Private practice with the law firm now known as Cooper & Kirk and later with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.
....The George Bush campaign including drafting the winning argument in Bush v. Gore.
....Associate Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice.
.....Domestic Policy Advisor, Bush White House.
....Director of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission.
....Longest serving Solicitor General for Texas.
.....US Senator.
Whether you think this experience is relevant or not is a value judgment.... To say that someone with this ‘sustained’ experience at the highest levels of state and federal government doesn’t have experience is rather buffoonish.
Some would make the virtue of executive experience a deal breaker just the same........... I would counsel that executive experience is only important if it is coupled with an executive ‘temperament’.
Being an successful executive may entail knowing how to delegate and what to focus on, but it doesn’t necessarily follow. ....Peter Drucker’s seminal work, The Peter Principle, is devoted to people who were successful until they weren’t. In the words of Frederick the Great, “I once had an ass who followed me on a dozen campaigns, at the end he was still an ass.â€