Ted Cruz 2016: Time to Channel Ronald Reagan?

The National Interest ^ | January 29, 2015 | W. James Antle III, managing editor, The Daily Caller

[onyx]

SENATOR CRUZ WILL HAVE THE TOTAL SUPPORT OF GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN!


2016

[Jim Noble]

How about a man who only served one two-year term as a congressman?

The one who left office with 600 000 dead and 1/3 of the country destroyed?

[SoConPubbie]

You cannot name a single first-term US Senator elevated to the Presidency who did not make a mess of things due to lack of executive ability.

So, all of these US Senators made a mess of things due to a lack of executive ability, including James Monroe(Remember the Monroe Doctrine?) and John Quincy Adams?

You don't know what you are talking about!

To date, sixteen senators have also served as president of the United States. Three senators, Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama moved directly from the U.S. Senate to the White House.  

(Photo: Warren G. Harding. Senate Historical Office)

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James Monroe

Senator, 1790-1794

President, 1817-1825

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John Quincy Adams

Senator, 1803-1808

President, 1825-1829

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Andrew Jackson

Senator, 1797-1798; 1823-1825

President, 1829-1837

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Martin Van Buren

Senator, 1821-1828

President, 1837-1841

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William Henry Harrison

Senator, 1825-1828

President, 1841

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John Tyler

Senator, 1827-1836

President, 1841-1845

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Franklin Pierce

Senator, 1837-1842

President, 1853-1857

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James Buchanan

Senator, 1834-1845

President, 1857-1861

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Andrew Johnson

Senator, 1857-1862; 1875

President, 1865-1869

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Benjamin Harrison

Senator, 1881-1887

President, 1889-1893

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Warren G. Harding

Senator, 1915-1921

President, 1921-1923

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Harry S. Truman

Senator, 1935-1945

President, 1945-1953

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John F. Kennedy

Senator, 1953-1960

President, 1961-1963

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Senator, 1949-1961

President, 1963-1969

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Richard M. Nixon

Senator, 1950-1953

President, 1969-1974

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Barack Obama

Senator, 2005-2008

President, 2009- present

[Jim Noble]

Your big hang up is that you dislike social conservatives

Wrong.

I love social conservatives. I have posted here, many times, that the country would be much better for myself, my children, and my grandchildren, if they were in charge.

You may be confused because I have also posted that social conservatives have demonstrated that they can lose elections, but they have yet to demonstrate that they can win elections.

This is not to be overlooked in choosing a candidate.

[ansel12]

Let’s just say that your posting history indicates a powerful dislike for conservatives, aka, social conservatives.

Ross Perot and Ron Paul are nutcases.

[Jim Noble]

There are only three sitting US Senators who have not completed a single term who have been elevated to the Presidency:

Harding, Kennedy, and Obama.

Not what I would call a recommendation.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cruz/Walker or Walk/Cruz.

[Vendome]

“Obviously, Cruz is much smarter than either Trump or Palin...”

You are objectively intellectually bankrupt and an abject failure at merely living...

[Caipirabob]

They’d have my vote and campaign time.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So he forced the South to secede pretty much instantaneously upon his election, rather than waiting to see what would happen, especially since he was born a Southerner? I didn't know that!!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Dude, what’d I do? LOKL

[SoConPubbie]

Harding, Kennedy, and Obama.

Not what I would call a recommendation.

Your position is one of a distinction without a difference.

You are LOOKING for a reason, any reason and ignoring everything else about Ted Cruz that recommends him above every other potential POTUS candidate with the exception of Sarah Palin.

As such, your opinion is lacks weight.

[ansel12]

Which candidate were you supporting in 1860?

[SoConPubbie]

There are only three sitting US Senators who have not completed a single term who have been elevated to the Presidency:

And BTW, James Monroe was a good President, and only served as Senator for 4 years, the same amount of time that Ted Cruz will have served before he becomes POTUS.

Your argument lacks merit and is incorrect.

Try finding another specious argument for not supporting the best potential conservative candidate for POTUS, your "he was a Senator, no executive experience" doesn't fly, the "Natural Born" smoke screen has been cleared up, what's next???

[Vendome]

Guy is an intellectual hack and demonstrates as much by resorting the old democratic and adolscelent assailing of intellect.

Trump is a billionaire and a graduate of Wharton.

Palin’s talents are well enough known and numerous, so I am not compelled to write her biography.

Besides, it’s not as if the author is a rocket scientist, so he isn’t qualified to measure, objectively or quantitatively, on a bell curve or a stated and accepted standard as to whom is smart or smarter than another...

[2ndDivisionVet]

What state was he governor of? How much property does he own? Where is his TV show?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Some Lincoln quotes:

I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races ... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas ...

[Vendome]

Zactly

IoW’s, he’s a retarded ass...

[tomkat]

             

[txhurl]

Whoa.. that sure the hell wasn’t in my history books.