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To: RIghtwardHo

[To be honest, I don’t think that will happen and don’t think he has much of a chance]

TED CRUZ is the most qualified candidate, and you know it.
Let the facts speak for themselves.

TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/

Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz 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.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.

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7 posted on 05/03/2015 6:11:13 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: stars & stripes forever

I wasn’t arguing at all that he isn’t qualified. I agree with you .. he is. (Nice list btw). My point is that I don’t believe he stands a chance because he won’t grow his base of support. That is no reflection on him but a reflection on the voters and where they line up in their beliefs.


8 posted on 05/03/2015 6:14:48 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: stars & stripes forever
The problem with the mindset of ‘courting’ specific interest groups and pandering to them is that a candidate becomes a ‘pander bear’ as the next group wants special treatment and the next group wants special treatment...until there are no more cookies in the jar.
Senator Cruz is proposing issues that will help all the people, uniting us with a shared vision, and will not further divide and inflame the country like Mr. Obama has done.
The divided and discouraged Democrats are not the main opponents for Mr. Cruz. Defeating the cowardly, corrupt Republican leadership is his greatest problem.
Winning the Presidency is part winning the intellectual high ground on the issues and part is having a personality that Americans trust and are comfortable with.
I think Senator Cruz has an inner Reagan that makes winning possible,...if all of his supporters work their butts off.
TWB
24 posted on 05/03/2015 5:13:33 PM PDT by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin, the Flame of the North)
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