Posted on 04/17/2015 8:53:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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How long did it take for you to mount your irrelevent attack on our best candidate?
Tells us all more than we wanted to know about you.
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The money is what tells the story, and the money is pointing to Cruz in a big way.
Its what Noot and Sarah both lacked in ‘12.
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Hmmmm...
37 million in the Cruz side’s warchest in two weeks!
Looks like the true conservative captains of industry see things much differently than you do.
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>> “I see a lot of folks here with anti-Cruz agendas” <<
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In the big ocean, one can see where the fish are by where the gulls are circling.
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Well see. 2016 is a long way off and the majority of our candidates haven’t even announced yet. But end of Summer we will have a better indication of what may happen. Of course then the debates start.
Brush up....all kind of Cruz info for you, at link....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Political_positions
Here’s just one bit of info....
Texas Solicitor General[edit]
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,[7][45] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.[10][29] The office had been established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a “leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction.” As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four.[42]
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.[7][37][46] Cruz’s record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.[47] Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: “We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights.”[47]
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.[46][48] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[46][49]
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.[10][37][46]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow,[10][37] in which he wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states.[50] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.[10][51]
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row.[7][10][37][46] With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate.[42][52] They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention.[53] Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.[42][52]
Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America,[45][54] by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,[55][56] and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.[57][58]
The main qualities I’m looking for in a Pesidential candidate are a conservative ideaology, a stated plan for what he or she intends to do, and a record of honesty that supports that they will do what they say. Cruz has all of these qualities.
If Obama had been a governor, a CEO or anything else, he would still have been a disaster because of his ideology.
Carter demonstrated that.
Additionally someone who respects and knows every word of the Constitution, has argued nine cases before the Supreme Court, and worked on 40 briefs for the Court, has a lot of credentials. And the Solicitor General does evaluate what cases to try and assigns those cases. The Attorney General approves those cases.
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