Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official

[Pressing-On]

Have you ever seen Senator Ted Cruz's resume:

• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, and had the longest tenure in Texas history.
  
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
  
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
  
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
  
• Described as a 'superb' constitutional lawyer, the man's considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all last week when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him answer the frickin question.
  
• 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.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
• he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
  
• AWARDS: "America's Leading Lawyers for Business," Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) "50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America," National Law Journal (2008) "25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century," Texas Lawyer (2010) "20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise," Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
  
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have Obamacare repealed root-and-branch...

[Pressing-On]

July 31, 2015, 12:22 pm
Texas congressman's son gives $10 million to Cruz super-PAC

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...cruz-super-pac

[Pressing-On]

Ted Cruz: Republicans get clobbered because we have leaders like MItt Romney, Jeb Bush who won’t speak the truth

Ted Cruz hit back at Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush today for criticizing his recent comments that the Obama administration will be the leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism if this Iran deal goes through.

Video:
http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-re...eak-the-truth/

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

So, the gay people in this country are not citizens who want to talk about issues? You hate them as well as their sin?

It appears that Senator Cruz is intellectually capable of being President. You might want to take some lessons.

So it's okay to campaign against sodomy while taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of their money?

Oooooookaaaaaaayyyyy.....

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Esaias

So it's okay to campaign against sodomy while taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of their money?

Oooooookaaaaaaayyyyy.....

I don't read the Liberal rag, Texas Monthly. Aside from that, Paul Singer is a Jewish, Philanthropist. He has also given $14 million to military causes, i.e., Special Operations Warrior Foundation, Marine Parents, Spirit of America, and the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation. He also gives to The Food Bank of New York, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and New York City Police Foundation.

In your article referencing Sen. Cruz meeting in New York with Weiderpass, et al, you may want to note: "Mr. Cruz was on a fund-raising tour of New York City, although the dinner was not a fund-raiser."

[Pressing-On]

Cruz wants delay in Iran review period because of 'side deals'

Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing to delay the start of Congress's 60-day review period for the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran.

The Texas Republican argues the review period should not begin until after the administration hands over "side" deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...d-on-iran-deal

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I see you got a second wind to come and attack Sen. Cruz. You bored again?

No, just busy, but I think I said I was going to let this discussion relax for a time before I came back to it. Dealing with individuals caught up in their cognitive dissonance in religion is one thing, but in politics it is like a semi sliding on black ice with a full cargo of eggs. While you may work hard and fast enough to get the truck straightened out you will end up with a lot of eggs broken.

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Sen. Cruz is who he is in the Code Pink clip - come and talk with me and let's discuss both sides in a respectful manner. No one else is like Ted Cruz.

That's what they said about Bill Clinton.

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

You might want to talk to Germany's Foreign Ministry about who they think is the biggest spy threat. It ain't Israel.

Maybe, just maybe if you can keep your composure my dear sister and READ what links I post, you may learn something. Also it may be helpful if you take the red pill while you read.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-s...lks-1427164201

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2...nsa-documents/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...ith-lawmakers/

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Lastly, as this makes the conversation factually short, I will quote the IDC’s Executive Director, Andrew Doran concerning the speech that Sen. Ted Cruz gave: "Sadly, there was a small but vocal anti-Israel element in the room."

Sadly you are so swept away by this candidate that you are no longer (not that you ever were) critically observing what is happening. This usually gets people covered with egg on their face after their golden boy gets in office then leads the nation down the road to hell instead of their presumed stairway to heaven. I think maybe you would do yourself a favor and quote people in their entirety, instead of leaving key parts out. In this way you won't be looked upon as a mindless minion (I say that respectfully) someone so duped by their favorite politician that you can't even begin to separate truth from hype. Yet Executive Director, Andrew Doran had this to say about the young senator's watermelon bursting all over the Orthodox bishops,

“He came to a summit in defense of Christians and actually endangered Christian lives,” said Andrew Doran, executive director of IDC.

Initially, Cruz’s address was warmly received by the more than 900 attendees of the IDC gala dinner at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington on Sept. 10. The crowd applauded with equal force when the Texas Republican said, “Tonight, we are all united in defense of Jews” as when he said, “Tonight, we are all united in defense of Christians.”

However, a minority in the room erupted in vocal disagreement and boos when Cruz, after likening the Christian persecution to the situation of Jews in 1948 at the creation of the modern state of Israel, announced, “Today, Christians have no greater ally than the Jewish state.”

Three minutes later, Cruz then left the podium as a result of the heckling — even as a majority of participants instead clapped in response to some of his subsequent remarks — saying as he departed, “If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.”

Doran said that IDC regretted that some people were not more respectful of Cruz, and he acknowledged that three anti-Israel protesters were removed and banned. But he had “no doubt” that some people understandably were fearful of the optics of the event back in their home countries. He added that the Christian diaspora had much more freedom than Middle-Eastern Christians to voice their support for the state of Israel.

“And if they do, it gives any Islamist group a pretext to eradicate them,” he said.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news...#ixzz3hWX417cf

Sister, Ted Cruz doesn't have the faintest idea what Middle Eastern Orthodox Christians believe, nor what they face from day to day. Sadly neither do you.

[Esaias]

It's like arguing with an Obamabot. Scary...

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Esaias

It's like arguing with an Obamabot. Scary...

You kill me sometimes.

[Esaias]

For anyone else reading, here's the main points:

1. There is a question regarding his eligibility (except for those who think Constitutional eligibility issues are too insignificant to look into...)

2. He was a long time part of the establishment machine.

3. His staff is filled with establishment enablers and lackeys.

4.His actual record of support for TPP and increased foreign workers gives the lie to his sweet talking campaign rhetoric of being truly pro-American.

5. His accepting if hundreds of thousands of dollars from out of state homosexual activists investors shows he is a typical business as usual politician.

6. His hobnobbing with homosexual activists investors in order to "get to know" Israel-first investors while campaigning as a moral conservative man of integrity shows his duplicity as a typical politician.

7. His ties to Big Government and Big Bank (Goldman-Sachs) reveal he is a typical politician despite his smooth talking rhetoric.

8. His IDC debacle shows (along with some of the above points) that he is ready to put foreign national interests above the interests of his Christian base and his alleged Lord and Saviour.

IOW, he's more of the same old same old.