No candidate is perfect but these two are close imo.
My biggest complaint with Cruz is his zero accomplishments. If he could just have one result, I would at least be more comfortable with him. I am just concerned that he does not have the ability to motivate and convince his fellow senators to pass laws. He should be able to convince the Democrats too which he has not been able to. I think that is why he is so weak. He is certainly no Reagan who was able to convince Democrats to go along with his beliefs. Heck even Bush could too. Cruz has not convinced on Democrat to vote his way.
To me, his most important accomplishment is that he is stirring the right to stop being an 0bama rubber stamp. This has the added benefit of identifying the gope [who are now in charge of money and committee assigns.]People crave that.
If he succeeds in overturning the R leadership to conservative, that would be huge to me. At that point, the many other like-thinking but less courageous would find the courage to fight 0bama and the dems too.
IMO the plan never was to defund 0bamacare or prevent the debt ceiling hike - although those outcomes would have been great. The plan was to fight at all to slow them down or even get something in return. It would have been so easy to turn down the debt ceiling increase unless there was a repeal of the cut to troops retirement or a prohibition on ins co. bailouts [risk corridors] or both.
So IMO Cruz HAS accomplished a lot albeit not legislatively.
We don't need more laws, we need fewer laws.
um... how is a REAL conservative to achieve a result with a Senate controlled by Democrats and a Democrat president?
I guess depending on what you call an “accomplishment” IF we gain control of the Senate in the fall, I am sure Cruz will accomplish a lot... that will then be veto’d by Obama. At which point you will then still accuse him of accomplishing nothing.
He is one man standing up against a tidal wave of socialists. Give him the credit he deserves.
I am 100% sure if he had “compromised” to ... “achieve” something, you would be the first here to label him a RINO traitor!
The Democrats that Reagan dealt with were far less radical than the ones who exist today. Not saying they were conservatives but you did have a bunch of blue dogs especially from the south who played a big part in passing Reagan’s tax cuts in the eighties. Bush was far more liberal than many of us want to admit so he found common ground with many Democrats especially on things like immigration and government preschool funding. Today’s Democratic Party is an absolute joke but they’re facing a gutless GOP that won’t call them out for what they truly are, an American socialist party, and the media has their back by portraying them as a bunch of centrists to fool the mass of low education dupes. Cruz may not have the national experience you desire but he’s the only one in DC willing to take on the left and not back down and make side deals with them. You want him to find common ground with radicals like Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, and hell every other Democratic senator? This is why Cruz appeals to so many of us. He’s fed up with the left, tired of the spineless RINOS making deals with them, and he’s taking them on mostly by himself. Isn’t that enough of a leader for you, or do you prefer a dealmaker who rolls over for the left like Christie or Jeb Bush as the GOP standard bearer? We’ve gone down that road too many times and look what we’ve done to this country as a result.