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To: SoConPubbie

Less than one term in the Senate, gives a good speech.

Who does that remind you of?

Apart from talking the talk, it is a HUGE administrative/executive job. What has Cruz run to qualify him for this responsibility?


9 posted on 03/19/2014 7:44:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. H)
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To: Jim Noble
While I love Ted Cruz, I struggle with the whole Natural Born Citizen issue. My concern is that he may not be any more of an NBC than Sortoro is.

I'm willing to listen to counter arguments, though.

10 posted on 03/19/2014 7:49:34 AM PDT by Marathoner (When Obama fails, freedom prevails)
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To: Jim Noble
I am so glad for this opportunity. I once asked the same question...

"During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[20] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13"

"Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[2][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[27] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[27] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[28][29] Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz"

"After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.[2][31] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."[12][32][33][34][35][36] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics"

"He was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas,[4] the youngest Solicitor General in the United States, and the longest-serving Solicitor General in Texas' history. He was also the first Hispanic, and the first minority to be elected U.S. Senator from Texas"

"Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. In addition, Cruz was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation, from 2004 to 2009."

18 posted on 03/19/2014 8:10:10 AM PDT by MarMema ("If Americans really wanted Obamacare, you wouldn't need a law to make them buy it." Ted Cruz)
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To: Jim Noble

“...Who does that remind you of?...”

How much worse could an actual American Senator, who actually LOVES his country and wants what’s best for it, do, versus the complete idiot we currently have?


35 posted on 03/19/2014 9:22:50 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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