I like Cruz, he's got a great life story to tell. Politically, I am simpatico.
But, he has no experience running anything – not a city or county, not a state, not a company. He needs to get that first before running for the highest office.
The president needs managerial experience. Otherwise, we have another Barack Obama, leaving to others the important function of building a team, of motivating his people, of running the office.
Unless you've done that to a high degree of proficiency, what you end up with are second and third tier ideologues with runaway agendas running the show – in Cruz' case, coming at it from the right.
Get some experience running something first, then get back to us.
I hear you loud and clear. However, with his time as an outspoken Senator, his professional career and education, I still think he is Golden! ... Get back to us? Time is definitely NOT on our side. To say that he has no experience running anything or he can't lead is totally inaccurate. Look at his bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_CruzPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Limited Liability Partnership, 2008-present
Adjunct Professor of Law, United States Court Litigation, University of Texas School of Law, 2004-2009
Solicitor General of Texas, Office of the Attorney General, 2003-2008 Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, 2001-2003 Coordinator, Department of Justice, Bush-Cheney Transition Team, 2000-2001 Associate Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, 2001
Associate, Cooper/Carvin & Rosenthal, 1997-1999
Law Clerk, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States, 1996-1997
Law Clerk, Judge J. Michael Luttig, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1995-1996
EDUCATION:
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 Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von MisesThe 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.[34] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[34] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship. Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.
Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree. 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 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.
