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?
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?
Ted Cruz never done ANYTHING.. what planet did you come from?..
On Abortion
Companies can deny insuring birth control. (Apr 2012)
Protect innocent human life with partial-birth ban. (Jul 2011)
Opposes public abortion funding. (Oct 2012)
Opposes churches providing birth control. (Oct 2012)
On the Budget & Economy
Overturn Supreme Court with anti-gay marriage Amendment. (Oct 2014)
Opposes gay pride parades and opposes gay marriage. (Feb 2012)
One-man-one-woman marriage is building block of society. (Jul 2011)
Disallow Ku Klux Klan from participating in Adopt-A-Highway. (Jul 2011)
Voted NO on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. (Feb 2013)
Supports defining traditional marriage. (Oct 2012)
Sponsored state definition of marriage supersedes federal gay marriage. (Feb 2014)
On Corporations
Get senseless obstacles from Washington out of the way. (Jan 2015)
On Crime
World Court should have no say in Texas executions. (Jul 2011)
Fully monitor sexual predators & bring them to justice. (Jul 2011)
Supports the death penalty. (Oct 2012)
On Education
Education decisions best made at local level. (Jun 2012)
Denounce the Common Core State Standards. (Feb 2014)
On Energy & Oil
Fight against Gulf moratorium on offshore exploration. (Jul 2011)
Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge by AFP. (Aug 2012)
Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures. (Jul 2010)
Explore proven energy reserves & keep energy prices low. (Jul 2010)
Let states lease energy rights on federal lands. (Jun 2013)
On Environment
Don’t pick winners & losers like RFS’ ethanol in gasoline. (Mar 2015)
Voted NO on protecting ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems. (May 2013)
On Families & Children
Opposes the unrelenting assault on traditional marriage. (Mar 2015)
On Foreign Policy
Cuba is oppressive but never misses chance to propagandize. (Oct 2014)
Vigorous sanctions against Putin; help eastern Ukraine. (Jul 2014)
America is indispensable; our allies need our leadership. (Jun 2014)
Sanctions on Putin for Ukraine: tyrants respond to weakness. (Mar 2014)
US has a responsibility to defend our values abroad. (Mar 2014)
On Government Reform
Executive actions override Congress & the Constitution. (Nov 2014)
Stop IRS from asking: ‘tell me the content of your prayers’. (Mar 2014)
Presidents should not pick & choose laws to enforce. (Mar 2014)
End Washington cronyism via Congressional term limits. (Mar 2014)
Obama dishonors Constitution by bypassing Congress. (Jan 2014)
Obama’s executive orders is open door for future lawlessness. (Jan 2014)
Debt ceiling limits “blank check” of federal spending. (Jan 2014)
Dems want to get as many Americans as possible dependent. (Oct 2012)
Head of the Center for Tenth Amendment Studies. (Jul 2011)
Require voters to show ID to avoid voter fraud. (Jul 2011)
Identify constitutionality in every new congressional bill. (Jul 2010)
Audit federal agencies, to reform or eliminate them. (Jul 2010)
Moratorium on all earmarks until budget is balanced. (Jul 2010)
Prohibit IRS audits targeting Tea Party political groups. (Feb 2014)
On Gun Control
Opposes unreasonable and burdensome gun restrictions. (Jul 2011)
Voted NO on banning high-capacity magazines of over 10 bullets. (Apr 2013)
Opposes restricting the Second Amendment. (Oct 2012)
Oppose the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty. (Sep 2013)
On Health Care
Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want liberty. (Feb 2015)
Support nuns’ battle for religious liberty against ObamaCare. (Jan 2015)
Government shutdown on ObamaCare worked: GOP won in 2014. (Nov 2014)
Suspend commercial air travel to Ebola-infected areas. (Oct 2014)
To repeal ObamaCare, show Dems they’d lose by supporting it. (Mar 2014)
Obama changed ObamaCare mandate deadline by a blog post. (Jan 2014)
Obama asked companies to disobey ObamaCare rules for a year. (Jan 2014)
5 million had health insurance canceled because of ObamaCare. (Jan 2014)
Vow to repeal ObamaCare. (Oct 2012)
Save Medicare by raising eligibility age. (Aug 2012)
Throw my body in front of a train to stop ObamaCare. (Apr 2012)
Defeat ObamaCare; rein in the federal government. (Jul 2011)
Defund, repeal, & replace federal care with free market. (Jul 2010)
Repeal any federal health care takeover. (Aug 2012)
Supports repealing ObamaCare. (Oct 2012)
Supports market-based health insurance. (Oct 2012)
On Homeland Security
Torture was rightly outlawed, but keep tactics classified. (Dec 2014)
Americans who join ISIS should be barred from coming home. (Sep 2014)
Vital role for deploying military force abroad. (Mar 2014)
Opposes TSA and National Defense Authorization Act. (Sep 2012)
Fierce advocate of recruiting and growing the military. (Jul 2011)
Supports banning military gay marriage. (Oct 2012)
Sponsored opposing the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. (Mar 2013)
On Immigration
Raising minimum wage BY executive fiat opposes rule of law. (Jan 2014)
Lowest labor force participation in over three decades. (Jan 2014)
Extending unemployment benefits exacerbates joblessness. (Aug 2012)
On Jobs
Raising minimum wage by executive fiat opposes rule of law. (Jan 2014)
Lowest labor force participation in over three decades. (Jan 2014)
Extending unemployment benefits exacerbates joblessness. (Aug 2012)
On Principles & Values
I’m despised by GOP establishment, but so was Reagan. (Feb 2015)
We win elections by bold principles & a positive agenda. (Mar 2014)
Washington would be better with more farmers & fewer lawyers. (Mar 2014)
Great Awakening: response to mess from career politicians. (Aug 2012)
OpEd: His law firm donated $200,000 to Obama’s campaign. (Apr 2012)
Defend Ten Commandments and “under God” in the Pledge. (Jul 2011)
Endorsed Member of the Tea Party movement. (Aug 2012)
Rated 100% by the AU, indicating opposition to separation of church & state. (Jan 2013)
On Social Security
Raise retirement age; cap increases to inflation rate. (Aug 2012)
Transition younger workers into personal savings system. (Jun 2012)
Rated 0% by ARA, indicating a pro-privatization stance. (Jan 2013)
On Tax Reform
Abolish the IRS. (Feb 2015)
Permanent Washington elite protects the tax code. (Apr 2012)
Adopt a single-rate tax system. (Jul 2010)
Repeal tax hikes in capital gains and death tax. (Jul 2010)
Supports the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. (Aug 2012)
Opposes increasing tax rates. (Oct 2012)
Supports eliminating the inheritance tax. (Oct 2012)
On Technology
Net neutrality is ObamaCare for the Internet. (Nov 2014)
Voted NO on authorizing states to collect Internet sales taxes. (May 2013)
On War & Peace
Provide defensive weapons for Ukraine against Russia. (Feb 2015)
Arm the Kurds to fight ISIS, with US air support. (Feb 2015)
Focused, direct military objective of destroying ISIS. (Feb 2015)
Bomb ISIS back to the Stone Age. (Oct 2014)
Arm & aid the Peshmerga Kurds against ISIS. (Oct 2014)
Don’t arm Syrian rebels without a clear plan to combat ISIS. (Sep 2014)
Bomb ISIS back into the Stone Age, with Congress’ approval. (Sep 2014)
Install Eastern European ABMs; stand up to Russia in Ukraine. (Jun 2014)
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan went on too long. (Jun 2012)
Sponsored shutting down Iranian foreign reserves. (May 2013)
On Welfare & Poverty
Government checks create dependency. (Aug 2012)
He's been a smashing, stellar success for liberals. Find me a liberal who thinks Obama is doing a bad job and who wouldn't vote him in for a third term. Obama's court appointments alone have entrenched more radical liberal policy into de facto law than we've seen enacted in our lifetimes.
We need a staunch conservative ideologue in the White House to reverse what Obama's done and etch conservative policy into stone. We don't need someone who's making up his philosophy as he goes and winging it. It takes someone with the same laser focus on ideology that Obama has to unravel everything he's done. No one else will be able to root out what he's done and consistently hit the mark.
Obama also has an incredible focus on the long-term, such as how mass immigration will give his party votes for decades to come. It takes a true ideologue to have that kind of long-term vision. Cruz is the only one who truly understands the difference between the right and left and how it is intertwined in every single issue.
Finally someone who is asking the same question as I. What makes Ted Cruz such a darling when in fact he is just as much a professional politician as the rest, with the four exceptions, on the Republican side.
I researched Cruz also and all I found, outside one year of private practice, is someone who has never not been in public service. How has that worked out for all of us over the last 35 years since that seems to be all the choices we have.
Yes Trump is not perfect but given the past records of what we have had I am ready to gamble on a true non-political outsider, and Trump knows exactly how to play the game.
I have made up my mind it’s Trump or nothing, I will not support another Professional Politician.
“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.