Too much, too soon, what ? These guys aren't in their 20s or early 30s (Santorum running for President 22 YEARS after he first ran and won for federal office is "too soon" ? Seriously, are you nuts ?). How do you think installing ANOTHER senile establishment tool like Dewhurst (another Rovian maneuver, epic disaster) is good for the Conservative movement ? We need aggressive, unapologetic younger people moving this government and this country in a different direction. Or would you prefer we turn into Greece (or worse) ? That's where we're going, and fast.
It seems like my “too much, too soon” assertion was too much for you to not get your dander up over!
And what seemed self-evident to me, you have the completely opposite take on.
This demands that I explain my reasoning and respond to your questions.
“Too much, too soon, what ?”
Yes, I would prefer to vote for a senatorial candidate that actually has a record as a legislator, a record of running for elective office, and more time residing in Texas and more experience living and working in Texas, before he goes back to Washington to write (or oppose) laws, which reflect the interests of the people and the State of Texas in the United States Senate.
These guys aren’t in their 20s or early 30s (Santorum running for President 22 YEARS after he first ran and won for federal office is “too soon” ? Seriously, are you nuts ?).
Ted Cruz is only 41. For the majority of that time 15 years between high school graduation and 2003 he would have lived in Princeton, New Jersey, & Cambridge, Massachusetts as a student and in Washington, D.C. as a Federal Government Lawyer, after which he may have lived in Austin TX, for 5 years or so, then been based in Houston for a couple of years after joining the Morgan Lewis Law Firm. Yes, I would like my Senator to have at least solid 10 years of experience living and working in Texas in the private sector and involvement in local and statewide politics so I can get some understanding of what policies he would write law to effect. That is not nuts, it is prudent.
“How do you think installing ANOTHER senile establishment tool like Dewhurst (another Rovian maneuver, epic disaster) is good for the Conservative movement ?”
None of those allegations about David Dewhurst are true, in fact; they are ridiculous.
“We need aggressive, unapologetic younger people moving this government and this country in a different direction. Or would you prefer we turn into Greece (or worse) ?”
David Dewhurst has a proven record and the proven ability to effect policies that lead to fiscal sanity and production and efficiency in both government and private business, a proven record that is far more extensive than that of Cruz. Dewhurst is the very guy you would want to look to and support if your worry is that “we turn into Greece”.
Regarding Santorum running for President 22 YEARS after he first ran and won for federal office being “too soon”, I absolutely stand by that statement. Santorum has all the history of a classic career politician with his eye on Washington from a very young age, but no real private sector or real local ties that would build a local or staewide political base that would sustain a lifetime Senatorial career, much less a presidential run.