who would you like to see as the next president of the united states?

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Ted Cruz

[–]yelgy[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

what do you like about him?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I think he's a principled conservative, and less of a politician than many other potential candidates. He's socially conservative, unbending to the slippery slope of degeneracy we're sliding down. Contrast this with Obama, who was against gay marriage until he suddenly wasn't, or Beto O'Rourke, who backtracked on gun confiscation.

Perhaps the greatest endorsement of Ted is that even his fellow Republicans (the insincere, political ones at least) detest him. John Boehner called him "the most miserable sonofabitch" he'd ever met.

[–]TheJoint 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

How can you think this guy has principles when he sucked up to Trump after Trump called his wife ugly, and when Texas lost power to the cold he fled to Mexico?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Well, his principles don't consist of voting for whoever is nicest to his wife. It's not like he ever campaigned on the issue of civility in political discourse in any major way, and the things he has campaigned on overlap neatly with Trump's policies.

As for fleeing Texas, I think that was an advisable thing for anyone to do. Trying to survive weather that's 20 degrees below freezing, with no heat and for days on end, is just not something I'd expect a family of people to attempt.

I guess others didn't have the wherewithal to get out, and that's awful, but you can't expect the rest of us to just die alongside them in solidarity.

[–]TheJoint 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

A president should be a leader, Cruz actions showed he had no principles.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

No, his actions showed he doesn't share your principles.

[–]TheJoint 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

My principle of serving the people I represent and being a leader? Cruz is propoganda artist nothing more, with no principles but to serve himself.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How does sitting in a 12-degree house serve anyone? Cruz did his part in getting an emergency declared and getting people federal money to fix the damage. That's the role of a Senator. He's not the Director of FEMA, or a member of the Public Utility Commission, or the Governor. He's a legislator, and he generally does show up for votes and vote according to his very consistent, long-standing principles.

[–]TheJoint 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Cruz did nothing to hold the energy companies accountable for not winterizing their system which they were supposed to do for years.