Why? Perhaps it is better for a person who has run a state to be in line for President. Perhaps the ideal would be a candidate who had improved their state as governor and who also had national exposure (Senator/Congressman).
That being said, Ted Cruz has way more experience than BO
Like Abe Lincoln?
“Why? Perhaps it is better for a person who has run a state to be in line for President.”
I agree. You don’t hire somebody to be CEO of a huge company unless they’ve cut their teeth on a smaller one and proven themselves. (I don’t. But Boards do it all the time. I try not to buy stock in those companies.) I think Cruz would make a good VP. Maybe that’s his real goal.
Not only does Cruz have executive experience, he has the correct strategic vision - the latter being faaaaarrrr more important than running a state to becoming a successful President and saving America & the Constitution.
Perhaps. Although he did improve Texas and many other states winning cases at the Supreme Court. As one of the top Attorney Generals he also had all sorts of people working for him (so the “executive experience” of people management.
In my own state — looking at both Democrat and Republican governors -’ I would want any of them as president. Most of them are/were career politicians who never had to really work for a paycheck or if they did, they've been in politics for so long, they have forgotten how.
Simply review presidential history.
Governors don’t have a much better track record verses senators or anyone else for that matter. There been really bad ones across the board.
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 exceptions 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.
Jefferson
Monroe
Tyler
Van Buren
Polk
Johnson
Hayes
Cleveland
McKinley
Wilson
Coolidge
FDR
Carter
Reagan
Clinton
Bush
From FDR to Carter... none.
No Lincoln, Teddy, Ike, Truman, JFK, Washington, Madison, Adams...
Four who were Governors were also among our worst Presidents... Wilson, Carter, and the only two impeached Presidents (Johnson and Clinton)...
and FDR changed us into the welfare state...
The only two great Presidents who were Governors, IMO, are Reagan and Jefferson. Coolidge had some great philosophies (smaller government, laissez faire capitalism, taxes only when necessary, didn't like long speeches, etc), but didn't put them to use well enough. (There was an actual Congress back then.)
Less than half were governors... and less than half of those were notable presidents... with half being great and half being poor. In the end, it seems to me that Governorships don't matter much. It SOUNDS right to say that the most important executive on earth ought to have major executive experience first... but if we stuck only to ideas that sounded good and decent, we would all be liberals obeying Jon Stewart and bumper sticker philosophies.
Cruz has executive experince in that the was the solicitor general of Texas and directed 4000 employees and 700 lawyers in that job. The job of President and that of a governor are very different and are facilitated in a completely different way. The President works through his Cabinet. Truth is, the only way to get experience as President is on the job. Cruz’s most qualifying characteristic is Leadership. He was born to lead and his genius I.Q. is just another gift that aids him in doing that. If you like his policies, you can believe he will follw through.
Being unsure about Ted in the heat of the battle ?
Rather go down in defeat with a leader who to some maybe untested, but loves his troops, than a snake who is a seasoned warrior, but stabs his troops in the back.
Now is not the time to be unsure or sit on the fense.
Either you choose Ted Cruz, or you choose someone else.
Many could not even make up their minds right before the elections.
as for others and I ?
We have already made up our minds, and we will lay on our swords as a figure of speech , if we have to, go down in defeat if we have to for our cause.
Now is the times that test men’s souls.
Not only does Cruz have more experience and knowledge (he’s much more intelligent) than O, he is not as “extreme” as O.
Cruz is a good choice to un-do what O has done to our country in just SIX years.
Jimmy Carter, Mitt Romney? No thanks.
I’m not jumping on you. If you have not done so, check out Ted Cruz’s resume. The guy was Solicitor General for Texas. He argued (and won) in front of the Supreme court on multiple occasions which had direct impact on other states. The office he held in Texas employed 1000’s of people AND he still took on high profile cases. Unlike obama, this guy knows the Constitution and what he is doing and the process behind making law sound (again, unlike mr. EO obama).
Beyond that; you might have been one of those (like me) that tried to stay up very late while he filibustered obamacare (ACA). More than a few politicians wandered in off k-street thinking they were going to show up that “freshman” and he trounced them; hand-idly. Why? He has the Constitution to rely on and he has done so over his career.
This guy has been walking the walk. Its not that the liberals are terrified of him, it is that the GOP-e is. He is also in cahoots with Palin and beyond which knows how to reach around the media and get at the American people.
Now, is he Reagan part 2? I don’t know that yet. But he certainly is striking absolute terror into the DC power complex and that I like.