Posted on 09/26/2015 9:37:34 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
“And how has the one term Senator, Constitutional scholar that has never done anything outside government but can wax eloquently and is beholden to special interests worked out for us?”
I gathered from your post that you do not know much about Ted Cruz. There is a fine post here listing some of his many accomplishments. Aside from that you are wrong about him never having a job outside of government. He has worked in private practice as an attorney.
His book is impressive as he started studying and speaking about the Constitution & Economics while in high school. He joined a group called the Free Enterprise Institute founded by Rolland Storey. Mr. Storey started a speech contest based on the ten pillars of economic wisdom.
After studying and reading works by Milton Freidman, Freidrich Hayek, Adam Smith, Bastiat & Ludwig Von Mises the students had to write a twenty minute speech based on each of those ten pillars. This was the beginning of his education & beliefs in the free market system.Cruz was a winner in that contest each of the 4 years he was in HS.
By the age of 14 he was giving speeches on economics to Chamber of Congress groups, Kiwanis, Rotary clubs and other business group over the state of Texas.
His second year in HS he joined the Constitutional Corroborators where he spent hundreds of hours studying the Constitution, reading the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist papers, and the debates on the ratification of the Constitution. He also memorized all of the provisions in it. Pretty impressive for a HS student wouldn’t you say? Again this group of 5 students traveled around the state speaking to groups and presenting the Constitution and describing socialism so that people would know the difference.
His first job when he was 10 years old was working for his father in his computer business. He ran a couple of other small businesses while still working for his father buying soda and stocking the machines at work and mowing lawns.
One summer he worked for a water softener company going door to door setting up prospects for the salesmen.
He paid his own way through college with scholarships, financial aid and campus jobs.He was deeply involved with the debate team and student government. He worked several summers for a large law firm. He also clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist.He also held jobs as research assistants for law professors and clerked for an appellate judge.
His Senior Thesis was written about the 9th and 10th amendment to the Constitution.After he graduated from law school he clerked for a federal appeals judge in VA.
He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review & Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy & founding Editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.
Cruz was the Solicitor General for the state of TX and also worked as Domestic Policy Advisor on George Bush’s 2000 campaign helping to write policy. He was instrumental winning in court for Bush against Al Gore in the election recount mess.
Cruz was 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 domestic policy adviser to President George W. Bush on the 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign.
He was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin where he taught Supreme Court Litigation. These are just some of his accomplishments. There are more.
His book sets up his qualifications for the job he is running for. In his book you can see how he has been studying the Constitution, speaking about it and debating it since high school. The cases he argued and won in front of the SC were landmark cases. They showed me that he had the same beliefs and fought for them back then as he says he does now. There is a paper trail that shows us his life-long conservativism. I believe he is the best school on the Constitution, understands the principles and the founding father’s reasoning behind it better than any other candidate. Ted Cruz has show himself in the Senate to be a man who does what he says he will do. He doesn’t win much but there is NO CONSERVATIVE who is gaining wins in the Congress right now. He is being wasted as a sitting Senator.
This is why I chose him as my candidate. That and he is the most conservative of all of the candidates.
As for Obama, he wasn’t a Constitutional Scholar. That was BS. And no one knows what he did or didn’t do in College. Very little is known. He always was a community activist and organizer and had known associations with some very shady characters.
Being a one-term senator means nothing in itself. It depends what you do when you are there. Lincoln only had one term in the House. It is Obama’s ideology that makes him a bad president. You cannot compare Obama in this regard (who mostly voted present while in the Senate) with Cruz who has led the fight against the dems repeatedly. And he has an impressive voting record. Only Mike Lee’s is more conservative than his according to Conservative Review.
Ted Cruz doesn’t have the charisma that Obama had. There are no big white columns nor people fainting at his speeches. I would compare Obama’s charisma more to Donald Trump’s (who has never been in the Senate)style.
Obama mostly voted “present”, Trump has no voting record to look at. Trump used to be a dem and recently has claimed he became a repub and pro-life. Cruz has always been a conservative, has always been religious and always has been pro-life & pro-second amendment. He has fought cases in the SC that show these beliefs & fight for religious liberty. He followed them in practice while a Senator.
These are all the things I weighed when choosing him as a candidate and why I believe that he is the best choice.
“Senators do not actually do much which is one of the knocks against a Senator running for President. “
I’m not sure what you mean by “get things done”. There has been tons of Senators from both sides getting a lot done but none of it good.
For starters he has sponsored about 25 or more pieces of legislation. Looking at the list of them you will be able to tell what he supports and believes. A bill to repeal Obamacare is one. To allow states to require proof of citizenship to vote is another. In support of the Keystone pipeline. His Senate bill 2195 was passed & signed by Obama.
He served on 5 committees and 8 sub-committees during his short term.
There is more if you care to do some more research. Check Conservative Review. They rate the senators and give their explanations why. The review the senators and what they have done while in the Senate.
Wikipedia lists his education, career and time in the Senate and his accomplishments as well as his policies and statements & Speeches in the Senate. It’s a good place to start.
There is also his book, “Ted Cruz A Time For Truth”.
“I researched Cruz also and all I found, outside one year of private practice, is someone who has never not been in public service.”
You need to go back and spend more than 5 minutes on that research:)
Our recent experience debunks this. "Stoke of the Pen, law of the land, kinda cool" AND "I've got a pen and I've got a phone..." Clinton-Obama.
I am for ever thankful to Trump for focusing our anger at the establishment GOP leadership in allowing Obama to act as dictator without question. I believe his support and attention is what drove the final nail in the Boehner resignation coffin. They are all forewarned now.
How many of those bills have actually passed and made America better? I think it is great he believes these things, and I applaud him for it, but nothing gets done and he knows it will not when he introduces these bills. That is what I mean by “largely symbolic actions”. I do not mean to impugn Cruz, it is just how the Senate works. As I said, Senators do not actually do much which is one of the knocks against a Senator running for President.
Hosepipe show me one president in the last 38 years that played the legislative process while not allowing the maniacal pilfering of monies awarded that did not make an end around run back into political coiffures. Here is a chance for an American who would put America first. You are so blinded because this is all you’ve known (how politics works) and seen politically. What you fail to understand is that our FEDERAL government (in the early days) was almost fully funded by tariffs and the bloat that now generates jobs that do nothing but monitor regulations and enforce tax collection because of allowing manufacturers to leave just to survive. Your as intellectually deep as Hillary Clinton and as honest as the media....why do you troll FR?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2995684/posts
Here is Cruz’s resume (from 2013), before his senate career got going much.
The main one for me is his work as Attorney General of Texas, which has thousands of employees, and his victory in the Heller case:
excerpt:
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan.
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
Hosepipe the TROLL gee you got bored sitting in the corner with Cincinnatus wife ?...what other candidate would not be beholden to either the DNC or RNC hosepipe answer that one question to yourself....afraid to actually see the thieves in washington actually outed? Afraid that America would no longer be suicidal and non-PC? Afraid of America actually not committing suicide with nona
simmilating welfare illegals AND refugees?.... what candidate besides Trump has put out any “logical” outline...the key word is logical hosepipe...something that does not seem to be in your train of thought....back to the corner with you troll.
I understand the sentiment of staying home on election day if either Trump or Cruz are not the candidate.
I do however strongly disagree with it.
If conservatives stay home because the GOPE forces Jebush or some other RINO on us, they will never learn.
I strongly believe it is better to find a third party candidate to vote for.
That way the Republican party can actually *see* where their voting base disappeared to.
If we just stay home they can chalk the loss up to something silly, such as the candidate not being “polished” enough, or not charismatic enough or any number of things that have no bearing on the parties lack of conservatism.
Political parties are like puppies.
If the pup takes a poo on the living room floor, you push his nose in it to let him know what the problem is.
Then you whack him with a newspaper to let him know that pooing on the floor will not be tolerated.
The Republican party needs to be trained in the same manner.
When the establishment shoves a candidate on us who is not in our best interest, we need to communicate by phone and mail what the problem is.
We then need to vote for *someone* so they can see there are consequences.
That means voting third party down ticket as well.
As it is, the GOPE knows we will eventually gravitate back to them if they throw us a few crumbs.
If we vote for a third party, they can see where their votes went and understand that they must change to woo us back.
If we as conservatives had done this for the last twenty five years, we would either have a Republican party responsive to us or we would have elevated another party and relegated the GOP to the ash bin of history.
The wife and I have decided that if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump (in that order) don’t get the nomination we will vote third party.
That includes down ticket as well.
“How many of those bills have actually passed and made America better?”
How many of any of the bills that have passed in Congress the past 7 years made America better? Ted Cruz did what he told his constituents he would do. He never promised he would win every battle but would fight for them and their values.
Cruz knew that he would be fighting an uphill battle. It is not his fault that the GOP has taken up with the dems. The reason the conservatives can’t get legislation passed is because the GOP doesn’t want it passed. How is that Cruz’s fault? At least he gets up there and fights, fillibusters and stands for his principles. That is his job. The fact that the Congress is corrupt is a shame but should be held against a man who has done so much to fight back against it. It shows what a waste it is to have a man like him there.
Any conservative is going to have trouble getting legislation passed with the way the GOP is now. How is Donald Trump going to change that? With a pen and a phone? The president doesn’t pass legislation. He can give speeches. He can promote policy. But unless the GOPE suddenly decides that they love Trump and want the same things he wants he is dead in the water.
Being POTUS is different than being CEO of a company. When Trump wants something done it gets done. He tells other people what to do and they do it or they get fired. It doesn’t work that way in DC.
Ted Cruz isn’t wasting his tie with “symbolic actions”. He isn’t giving up the fight. He is keeping his promises to the Texans that elected him. I find that honorable. And desirable in a president don’t you?
Congress is corrupt and that is a shame but should NOT be held against a man who has done so much...
Sorry for the mistake. I haven’t gone to bed yet and brain is fuzzy.
I am familiar with his resume, I voted for him. What I posted was “Senators do not actually do much which is one of the knocks against a Senator running for President” Washington himself said something to the effect that the Senate is a saucer into which we pour legislation to cool it. That means that is designed for the process to be slow and for Senators to not actually get much done. BTW, Ted Cruz was never the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott was at the time of Heller. Cruz was the Texas Solicitor General. Alan Gura and Robert Levy were the lawyers for Heller who actually won the case. Ted Cruz drafted the amicus brief that was signed by 31 state AGs and presented oral arguments supporting it before the SCOTUS. I never said that he did not do great things as Texas Solicitor General. I said he has not actually done much as Senator, none of them do.
I am not holding it against Cruz. I am stating a fact that Senators do not get much done, which is an argument used against Senators running for President. The Senate is designed to not get much done. That is the truth, it is not meant to be an insult.
“We need to find elected officials, whether Trump or someone else, who can solve our problems when in office, and not candidates who spoon-feed bullet points to anxious journalists.”........
As Trump had stated over and over again, never give up your advantage. Giving the media details of his plans would only give them fodder for more attacks against him. He is a master at making deals, deal he wins. I support that tactic and Trump, keeping his plans close to his belt, definitely gives him the advantage. From the poll numbers it would appear there are a lot of other Americans who feel likewise.
I might add that the media is so devious that any plans he would lay out - they would broadcast 24/7 - tipping off our enemies. They are rather stupid like that. Do these numb skulls actually think that enemies aren’t watching the broadcasts and what the candidates are saying? Obama spelled out exactly what he was going to do so the enemy would know -yet he kept important bills hidden from Congress and the American people. I don’t want to get started on that POS.
“Trump has a record of action”
But can he speak for us when in front of leaders of countries or just talk about his accomplishments?
“Much like Obama when he was RUNNING as a candidate...
BIG words.. “
“We need a candidate who has a proven desire to make government SMALLER.”
Heck he already got rid of the Crying Cheeto.
Now if he can get rid of Mr. Monkey Face in the Senate real quick we may get somewhere.
GO CRUZ GO
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