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To: Buckeye McFrog
Ronald Reagan was one helluva administrator. Because he knew how to delegate, AND he understood the nuts-and-bolts of how the system operated.

I am so tired of hearing this idea that governors make the best presidents, which has not been borne out by history.

Over the past 100 years (or so) we have had 8 presidents with prior gubernatorial experience:

Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush

With the exception of Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge, the remaining six have been unmitigated disasters.

That's hardly an encouraging record.

And Reagan wasn’t a great president because he was a governor. He was a great president because he understood what America was all about, loved liberty, limited government and free markets, and knew how to sell it.

I like a lot of what I know about Scott Walker, but the fact is that he appears to be a supporter of amnesty/immigration reform -- which is a deal killer as for as I am concerned.

Ted Cruz is the ONLY consistent, articulate conservative candidate who seems to understand the proper role of the federal government in all respects.

I believe that when one looks at the whole pack, Cruz is the only one who has the brains, the principles and the experience to save this country, if in fact it can be saved after 100 years of Progressive leftist infestation by both parties.

16 posted on 03/24/2015 6:32:49 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Maceman

That tired stale and irrelevant “governor executive experience” thing is the coin of the realm of the formulaic, non-original, shallow thinker.


18 posted on 03/24/2015 6:36:21 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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