Ted Cruz graduated with honors from Princeton and the Harvard Law School, one of whose most distinguished professors, Alan Dershowitz, has gone on record to say that Ted Cruz was one of the most brilliant students he ever taught. He was the North American debating champion in two categories. He was the longest serving Solicitor General in Texas history and was vital in winning many important cases before the United States Supreme Court. He is everything they claimed Obama was, in real life, and then some.
Senator Cruz also served as a Supreme Court clerk for the Chief Justice; salvaged George Bush's Florida win, came from far behind in the polls to win his Texas Senate seat; and in a matter of little more than a year in Washington has become a front runner for the Republican 2016 presidential nomination, picking up the most coveted Conservative endorsement — Sarah Palin’s — along the way.
Ted Cruz is an expert at winning, and if he thinks he can win the presidency in 2016, who am I to disagree with him? LOL After eight years of President Obama, only a towering genius will be able to undo the damage. And Ted Cruz is the only candidate who even remotely qualifies. Rand Paul, his principal opponent, is a mediocre product of nepotism; he inherited his father’s supporters. And do I really have to go into why we don't want Governors Bush or Christie?
Do we want a better country or not?
I would love to see Ted in the oval office.
I do think Cruz/ Palin would be the best.
I think people miss that the issue really is not Obama/ Clinton/ or any specific liberal/democrat.
We face an intellectual culture that is thoroughly reactionary toward people with values. The demonization and literal violence against conservatives has been cultivated in the U.S. for a long time.
I still feel the burning of Sarah Palin’s church in December of 2008 was a kind of American Alamo. The radical reactionary left felt empowered to initiate a Rwanda like purging of American conservatives. The attempted mass murder at the Family Research Council headquarters in DC was another sensational step forward. The gay activist intended to shoot as many as he could and force them to eat chick-fil- a sandwiches he brought in his backpack while he watched them die.
The concert of ridicule that conservatives continue to balk at knowing it will likely consumer another of their own, must be confronted head on. Conservatives should strive for a humiliating victory that would shock and demoralize the radical anti-American culture that has taken hold.
This radical culture is far from the majority but it perfected its social control tactics in the primary process that defeated Hillary.
Cruz/ Palin would discredit the hollywood/media/ academic axis of deception.
For sure, Senator Cruz' intellectual candlepower is real, as opposed to the claims that are made for most liberal "geniuses".
But there is another credential that Senator Cruz brings to the table -- one that is especially needed at this stage in our history: strength of will.
Demolishing the leftist superstructure that extends throughout the federal governent and adjacent to it has become an absolute must. Much of the federal establishment needs to be dismantled. Then, the rot within the remainder has to be treated.
Just as Reagan's defeat of the Soviet Union was essentially a manifestation of his will, we need the same kind of will directed at a domestic enemy today.
Cruz is the first Republican candidate -- since Reagan -- who appears capable of exerting that kind of will.
To me, politics is one of the very few fields where intelligence trumps experience. Intelligent leaders know when they need experienced counsel as to implementing their political goals, and they know where to get that counsel. Experienced politicians, on the other hand, may or may not be intelligent leaders and indeed have a track record of being experienced at SCREWING THINGS UP on the taxpayers' dime!
I'm very confident that Ted Cruz has what it takes to run the country. If that man isn't a born leader, no one is.
I really hope Ted Cruz makes a serious run at the presidency in 2016. He has shown to me that he has a backbone of steel. The only question I have is if he can pull votes from the undecided bunch, such as the independents. Only time will tell.
The governor-as-candidate pushing is right out of the Establishment playbook, and the attached Bush machine, for Jeb Bush.
Scott Walker has done well, but why must all Republican nominees, as in every single one, be from blue states?
TED CRUZ is educated and inarguably intellegent, a deft political stratigizer, someone who can convince general election voters that we can restore the nation and do so in a way that does not require script writers and an acid tongue. He burns no bridges.
Ron Paul has proven to be untrustworthy, too early
reaching for the Establishment crowd and the disenchanted democrats and independents, which should come later (when Hillarygazi enters the race).
In an evenly divided electorate, Cruz’s ticket mate, if he is in it to win it, will have to help with electoral votes from one of a few important toss up states.
I stand with Ted
Agreed. If Cruz has the strength to match his record with his rhetoric, he could be unstoppable as president.