Posted on 03/29/2015 12:21:57 PM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
This executive capacity argument, which has been ridiculed and totally destroyed by Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and many others is starting to really get boring.
It is the coin of the realm of those without original thought.
First, Cruz has been an executive over a part of Texas gov’t that is probably the equal of an entire small state government. You know, like Wisconsin or Indiana or Louisiana.
Second, the Prez is NOT AN EXEC ADMIN MANAGER type position. As Mark Levin said so well.....give us a visionary, and then he can HIRE the managers.
Jeb will never in a lifetime throw his support to Cruz. Never.
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I wonder if Jeb will react more like a Democrat who wont accept his loss like Gore did. I wonder of he will endorse anyone after three or four embarrassing primary races.
What makes you think he would ever support Cruz? More likely Rubio.
I think it will be Walker vs O’Malley in the end.
I don’t have a good prediction as to what Jeb will or will not do >in the event< he gets smoked by Cruz, which I don’t think is any sort of foregone conclusion. I don’t know Jeb, I don’t have much of a feel for him, if any. At present, I regard him as sort of a Romneyish character in the sense that I don’t think he especially has the fire in his belly to run a super competitive/aggressive campaign. I think he is a momma’s boy who thought up to now he would waltz in and take the office without any big sweat. He does not seem like much of a fighter.
Nevertheless, these people have hundreds of millions at stake and do not intend to go away quietly. Though in the end, I believe that is what Jeb will do. It would not surprise me at all to see him, at the end, throw a lot of support to whomever he believes can sabotage Cruz’ campaign. If that’s a Democrat, no big deal for such a principled man./s
Unless the primaries get particularly bitter and bloody, there’s a good chance Jeb will “Man Up” and support Cruz. It is probably in his long term interest to do so. (Dems will be courting him of course, but they will discard him like a used tissue as soon as they can. Surely he can figure that out.)
To those who claim that the lack of a governorship is disqualifying, I disagree. Obama has been effective for his leftist side with about zero experience at anything (No pun intended.) Governorships are hardly the training ground now needed on the international scene. Additional, it is my opinion, that we are past the point of needing effective legislation gambits or efficient administration of already bloated programs. We need “Big Picture” leadership and education or we’re done. (I’m not anti-Walker, either. It’s just wrong, however, to say that Cruz can’t do it because he wasn’t a governor.)
Oldplayer
It's also an argument that has a sound foundation in history, and you dismiss it at your peril. It's no accident of history that most U.S. presidents in the last 70 years were former governors. It's also no coincidence that the absolute worst presidential candidates (from both parties) in recent decades have been U.S. Senators. I'll include Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry, and John McCain among them. And if we include candidates who lost in the primaries before they could even be nominated, I'd add John Edwards and Joe Lieberman to that group, too.
If it weren't for the fact that the 2008 election matched up two former U.S. Senators, we'd probably still be talking about how Richard Nixon was the last U.S. Senator to be elected president.
It's not just the "executive capacity" that makes a governor a far more formidable candidate for president. It's a governor's capacity to develop a track record in a political leadership role -- in a way that Senators simply can't do.
Florida. Hahahahaha!
Or that he knows he has already lost...and badly.
I suspect he won’t. Along with McCain and Graham, he will work tirelessly to destroy Cruz, country be damned.
This actually might work; blacks, who supported the election and re-election of a “black” president, might be disillusioned by an all-white race and decide to stay at home in protest.
Well, we can dream, can’t we?
If he bows out it won’t be to support Cruz. In any case you are getting head of yourself. I like Cruz but he’s still a long shot.
That’s right. RINOs won’t support a tea party candidate.
He’ll back Hillary before Cruz
jeb will join with hucklebee in the new “Loser Party”.
Never behind his back.
Excellent post!
And, I thought I knew EVERYTHING about the sob!
Thank you!!!!
I'm glad I didn't have anything in my mouth. I would have spitted it on my keyboard!
Oh boy, you stepped right into my trap - so predictable - and so easy to nuke.
There is not a damned thing, not a DAMNED THING, similar between the careers of the LOOOOOOOOOONG TIME go along to get along Senators you mentioned.
Again, a shallow thought process, no originality. No intellectual analysis...just the idea that because McCain and Dole are Senators and were bombs, that Cruz will be too.
Sheesh, how pathetic. Cruz work in the Senate at the moment, but he has zip zero nada in common with the others. Like I said, Rush and Levin made fools of this theory last week. I guess you missed it.
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