I think either can do that.
I’m just stunned by Cruz’ ability to adapt and answer questions on the spot, like when Colbert interviewed him.
he would be the most intelligent president since...I don’t know.
Was JFK smart? Nixon? I wasn’t bon for first and young for second.
>> Was JFK smart? Nixon? <<
Sure. JFK was smart enough. Still, he wasn’t the supreme world-class genius that his Harvard puppet-masters would have us believe.
(But I’ll admit that they had me fooled!)
On the other hand, many people who knew Nixon up close will tell you that he may have had the highest raw IQ of anybody they ever met.
Nixon was, however, not the least bit “glamorous” or “debonair” — and I think it was probably JFK’s having this latter quality that gave Dems the edge in the 1960 election, plus a little vote-counting help from Mayor Daley’s machine in Chicago and the LBJ-owned local officials in south Texas.
In other words, in this case as in most of life, pure IQ usually ain’t sufficient — taken alone — to get the job done.
They were both smart, but I give Nixon the edge over Kennedy. Just my opinion.
Judge for yourself in the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrcRKqLSRw
I think Cruz is smarter than Nixon was. He's also much more likeable. Nixon could be creepy. If Cruz has a creepy side, I haven't seen it.