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Ted Cruz, the only Republican arrogant enough to be president

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-05-17 01:14|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Yep. That's what USA (and the World) need---another ex senator POTUS who thinks his sh*t doesn't stink.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-17 07:16|| 2015-05-17 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Cruz would still be better than what we got.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-17 08:24|| 2015-05-17 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 g(r)om, I don't think that's quite what Spengler was saying here.

What he was saying is that the foreign policy establishment is so screwed up that only someone who is smart and very confident, (like Ronald Reagan) of his analysis can possibly get anything positive done.

There are many words that you can use instead of arrogance, some with negative connotations and some with negative. Which you choose is more a factor of your own belief rather than the subject's attitude.

Posted by AlanC 2015-05-17 08:43|| 2015-05-17 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Yea, well, AC. In 30+ years in Academia, I've seen dozens of brilliant students get tenure and produce sh*t. You're looking for new Ronald Reagan, look at Walker.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-17 09:35|| 2015-05-17 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I would just be happy with a President that told the state department it works for him and anyone that doesn't like it can go fuck themselves and get new jobs in selling bullshit.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-17 10:17|| 2015-05-17 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 g(r)om, of course you're correct.

I've not been in academia for 30 years but have seen a fair amount of the world in the 50+ yrs I've been paying attention. Cruz has yet to prove himself in all ways but he's on the right path.

I also like what I see of Walker so far, as does Spengler, but he doesn't have the foreign policy experience yet and that's the area of concern in the article.

To me the most important issue in the political arena is how a candidate relates to the philosophy and limitations of the constitution. Second is how, within those principles, the Oligarchy will be constrained.

Most succinct way to say it is will a candidate work to dismantle the current idea of "Socialize risk and privatize profit". Noting wrong with private profit as long as it's your own skin in the game.

Posted by AlanC 2015-05-17 11:57|| 2015-05-17 11:57|| Front Page Top

#7 doesn't have the foreign policy experience yet

Nobody in USA has (right) foreign policy experience.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-17 12:51|| 2015-05-17 12:51|| Front Page Top

#8 First. Term. Senator.

That's three strikes.

Walker, Jindall, Perry all good choices.

Posted by Iblis 2015-05-17 13:06|| 2015-05-17 13:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Elected in 2012 as a Republican, he is the first Hispanic or Cuban American to serve as a U.S. Senator from Texas. He is the chairman of the subcommittee on the Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He is also the chairman of the subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.

Between 1999 and 2003, 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 as domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. He served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, after being appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, the youngest and the longest-serving solicitor general in Texas history.

Cruz was the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. On July 31, 2012, he defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff, 57%–43%. Cruz defeated former state Representative Paul Sadler in the general election on November 6, 2012. He prevailed 56%–41% over Sadler. Cruz openly identifies with the Tea Party movement and has been endorsed by the Republican Liberty Caucus. On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Cruz's father was born in 1939 in Matanzas, Cuba, and as a teenager, he joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla groups to fight against the regime of Fulgencio Batista. He left Cuba in 1957 to attend the University of Texas. Rafael Cruz became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005. Cruz's father eventually left the oil business to become a minister, and he is now a pastor in Carrollton, Texas, a Dallas suburb.

Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas, and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988. During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where he learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises. 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 in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992. 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. In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year, as well as Team of the Year, with his debate partner, David Panton. Cruz and Panton represented Harvard Law School at the 1995 World Debating Championship, making it to the semi-finals, where they lost to a team from Australia. 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 degree. While at Harvard Law, he 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. Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant." At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-05-17 19:21|| 2015-05-17 19:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.

Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devising strategy, and drafting pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team. Cruz recruited future Chief Justice John Roberts and noted attorney Mike Carvin to the Bush legal team.

Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court. Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress. Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."

In 2003, while Cruz was Texas solicitor general, the Texas Attorney General's office declined to defend Texas' sodomy law in Lawrence v. Texas, where the U.S. Supreme Court decided that state laws banning homosexual sex as illegal sodomy were unconstitutional.

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Cruz also 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 success in Heller, Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5–4 in Van Orden v. Perry.

In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, in which he wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief.

After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

This and the previous comment are a few excerpts from Wikipedia.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-05-17 19:26|| 2015-05-17 19:26|| Front Page Top

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