Will Ted Cruz Make A Good President? [ZOT Magnet---ZAPPED!]

Leo McNeil ^ | March 24, 2015 | Leo McNeil

[LeoMcNeil]

I want to like Ted Cruz. He has all the right views from Obamacare to taxes to amnesty to Federal spending. He’s a gifted speaker, his speech yesterday was given without a teleprompter. He appeared genuine, frankly it appeared as though he had written the speech himself. The left hates Cruz, which of course makes him all the more likable. John McCain has called him a wacko bird, which again makes Cruz more likable. Anyone who annoys McCain must be good. Lost in the euphoria conservatives are having over Cruz is an objective look at whether Cruz will actually make a good President. Let’s face it, there isn’t a lot of evidence out there that Cruz is capable. Yes, he has all the right views but is he capable of governing effectively with those principles he claims?

Ted Cruz has as much experience today as Barack Obama did in 2007. Both entered their first Presidential race with zero executive governing experience. Both of them had just over two years of experience in the Senate before announcing their candidacy. Neither of them accomplished anything legislatively in the Senate, neither authored a single bill which made it through the chamber much less Congress. Ted Cruz is the conservative version of Barack Hussein Obama, he even has the birther crazies going wild because he was born in Canada.

Obama would have been much worse, from a conservative standpoint, had he been experienced heading into the White House. During his first year he had a filibuster proof majority in Congress and failed to get more than a watered down Wall Street bill and a Stimulus bill passed. He failed to pass an amnesty bill, he failed to pass a tax increase, he failed to pass Cap & Trade, he failed to close Guantanamo. The President wanted single payer socialist healthcare, he had to settle for Obamacare. Had Obama been more experienced, he’s likely to have figured out how to pass most of his agenda. From a managerial standpoint, his agencies are a mess. They had three years to put together a website for Obamacare and the administration failed miserably. Obama had no idea there was a problem until after the website went live. Obama came into office promising to clean up the VA, six years later nothing has changed. Much of this is due to the President’s inexperience. Obama’s lawless unilateral actions today are directly traceable to his legislative inexperience and lack of skill.

What evidence is there that Ted Cruz will do a better job than Obama? Yes, we can always fall back on Cruz having the right principles. However if he isn’t capable of implementing those principles, what good is he to the conservative cause? The question for conservatives today is what evidence is there that Cruz will be effective managing the executive branch? Objectively there isn’t much evidence out there that he’s capable of doing much of anything other than give a good speech. A President has to be more than that though. There is a lesson to be learned from Obama’s nomination, it simply isn’t wise to nominate someone who doesn’t have much experience.

On a more subjective note, don’t you wonder about the motivations of someone who thinks that after two years in the Senate he’s qualified to be President? After eight years of watching Obama, it’s clear he’s a narcissist. That probably should have been obvious from the moment he announced his candidacy. Only a narcissist would think he’s qualified to run for President with so little experience. Cruz is in the same boat. While it’s nice to believe his motivations are pure and Constitutional, we’re only fooling ourselves if we truly believe it. Cruz is arrogant enough to believe that despite his inexperience and lack of accomplishment he should be elected President. Considering all the conservative jumping on the Cruz bandwagon, it appears we’ve learned little from the mistake of Obama.

[luvie]

Ha-haaaaaa! A crispy critter for the kittehs!

[luvie]

LOL! I hate spellcheck!

[TheOldLady]

Leo was ignorant and stubborn about shooting Cruz down. If he managed to persuade anyone, he would have moved
on to Walker, Perry, Christie, et. al. until all our candidates in descending order of Conservatism lay in ruins.

He’s just another troll, spouting leftist propaganda, and the ZOT by Admin Moderator was most righteous.

And “President Cruz” sounds very good to me.

[Lazamataz]

Maybe he was a subtle concern troll. I didn’t really see it, but I didn’t look too close.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, gosh, I wonder what his agenda was? ;/)

> The one thing that will be different is that Ron Paul won’t be eating up a substantial portion of votes. I don’t think Rand will be able to keep his father’s libertarian wing together. The question is what do these voters do. I think a lot of them stay home, which changes the dynamic of the primaries. I see the rest sticking with Rand or maybe moving towards Cruz.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3270940/posts?page=54#54

[Col Freeper]

Well, here you are (well .... not really here any more .... but everybody knows you are lurking on FR), having successfully blogged your pimp, er .... limped your pog, er .... blogged like a true pimp for a long time.

You hid behind a thin, and false, veneer of a "conservative" label while you blogged and pimped and blogged and pimped and blogged and pimped .... well you know what you did.

But just like all non-conservatives on FR, eventually your veneer wore too thin, your true self oozed out, and "WHAMMO" you got the ZOT!

Teenage girls will forever giggle at your besotted zottedness, and your burning butt status, because you will live in infamy forever on the innerwebs!

You are now on the long list of zottees officially recognized by the "Overly Concerned Girlfriend."

Here's the proper form for Zottees to fill out (multiple copies are recommended to ensure that all "FR ZOT Board" members receive a personal copy -- they really seem to get a kick out of reading them!):

If you visit the whitehouse in your "visually impaired" condition, Obama lama ding dong will be joyous to see you, as he exists in the same condition. After all, the picture below is of him during one of his most "introspective" moments.

Completing and sending in your "FR BUTTHURT" form will ensure that you receive a 2-for-1 gift certificate to a famous Youtube training course. It probably won't help you, but since it's a 2-for-1 certificate, your twin brother or sister can use it to ensure that they don't devolve into a plog blimper, er ... well ... you know!

[humblegunner]

At least he didn’t excerpt.
He’s earned at least a grave marker for that.

A rock maybe, or a beer can.

[TexasCajun]

Sounds like a Bush supporter to me.

"I like Cruz, right on conservative principles but not experienced nor electable".

The standard "Moderate Republican" meme!

[TexasCajun]

I was on the fence too.

Went to the link, saw him bitching:

Should Congress Be Lectured By Foreign Leaders Like Netanyahu?

But it's ok if a Democrat Congress invites the Mexican President to lecture Congress on Amnesty.

[McGruff]

[Jane Long]

Ha ha!! Love that 😉

So long, Leo💨⚡️

[Col Freeper]

Good point.

Hmmm, maybe an empty Panther Whizz can?

[humblegunner]

Works for me.

[Old Sarge]

BEHOLD, THE BANDWIDTH WHORE IS FALLEN!
COME SISTERS, LET US DANCE ON HIS SMOKING BONES!

AYE, 'TIS MEET THAT WE SHOULD MARK THE
BLOG HARLOT'S DEMISE WITH A ROUSING REEL!

DID SOMEONE MENTION MEAT?
I AM SO THERE...

[TheOldLady]

Great one, Col Freeper. Excellent.

Here’s hoping that he saw it, correctly filled out the Butt Hurt form, and joined the Blazing Butt Club.

[skinkinthegrass]

just how many legs does that roasted bird (turkey) have? hmmmmm.

[Delta 21]

Yeah, this is my favorite part.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What about one-term congressmen?

[Maceman]

What about one-term congressmen?

I am so tired of hearing this idea that governors make the best presidents, which has not been borne out by history.

Over the past 100 years (or so) we have had 8 presidents with prior gubernatorial experience:

Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush

With the exception of Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge, the remaining six have been unmitigated disasters.

That's hardly an encouraging record.

And Reagan wasn’t a great president because he was a governor. He was a great president because he understood what America was all about, loved liberty, limited government and free markets, and knew how to sell it.

I like a lot of what I know about Walker, but the fact is that he appears to be a supporter of amnesty/immigration reform -- which is a deal killer as for as I am concerned.

Ted Cruz is the ONLY consistent, articulate conservative candidate who seems to understand the proper role of the federal government in all respects.

And Obama isn’t a terrible president because he only served one term in the Senate.

He’s a terrible president because he is an America-hating extreme leftist who never knew anybody who wasn’t a racist leftist America hater.

Obama is a terrible president because he has a staggering ignorance of American culture and history.

Obama is a terrible president because he is a megalomaniacal psychopath with delusions of Godhood.

Obama is a terrible president because he is intellectually lazy and has the emotional maturity of a 14-year-old.

And those are just some of the reasons.

I believe that when one looks at the whole pack, Cruz is the only one who has the brains, the principles and the experience to save this country, if in fact it can be saved after 100 years of Progressive leftist infestation by both parties.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Over the past 100 years (or so) we have had 8 presidents with prior gubernatorial experience:

Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush

With the exception of Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge, the remaining six have been unmitigated disasters. “

Great post.

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