IT’S GOTTA BE A GUV

Last Saturday (1/24) in Des Moines, 23 of the most prominent conservatives in the country spoke at the Iowa Freedom Summit, organized by Congressman Steve King (R-IA) and Citizens United.

Was the next President of the United States among them?  Let’s hope so – albeit the no-shows were Jindal, Paul, Rubio, and Jitt Rombush (or is it Meb Bushney?).  It’s vastly too early to predict who that will be, but we can start winnowing the field.

Let’s first eliminate those who are ridiculously tiresome old news.  That would be Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, and Donald Trump.  Go away and goodnight.

Next, there are those for whom the spotlight has moved on.  As much as we still love her, that would be Sarah Palin.  She had her shot in 2012 and passed it by.  She didn’t carpe diem then and that day is no longer there for her to seize.

She’s still the Zinger Queen.  "That GOP leadership, that establishment," she told The Blaze,  "they’ve got to get their stuff together… they’ve got to get tough, man. You know what? It’s not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now."

Ah, the Divine Miss Sarah.  The next prez has got to have her in his cabinet, say as Secretary of the Interior.

The spotlight has also moved on from Mitt Romney.  He took his shot in 2012, and pulled a Nixon.  Just as JFK cheated to win in 1960, so did Zero – and neither Nixon nor Romney challenged the cheating.  A Mitt ‘16 re-run will go nowhere.

Then there are the long-shot dark horse non-politicians.  Joining Ben Carson in this category is Carly Fiorina, thanks to her impressive talk in Iowa.  One of the most accomplished businesswomen in the world as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she brought the house down and the crowd to their feet with:

"Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something."

That wasn’t the only time the crowd stood up and cheered.  Keep your eyes on Carly – you know Hillary sure is.

As for Dr. Ben, he’s a lovable patriot – as well as being a brilliant neurosurgeon.  But that sure doesn’t qualify him for being the Chief Executive of the largest and most complicated organization in the history of humanity. 

You need someone with actual successful experience at running large complicated organizations.  Certainly we’ve learned that lesson with Zero.

Which is why Senators should stay where they are, and stop believing – as almost all Senators do, Dem or Pub – that they would be God’s gift to the presidency.

This applies to all three Pub Senators gearing up to run:  Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz.  Each would be light years better than the PIAPS, Cruz most of all in sheer brain power, in consistency and staunchness of principles, plus a charismatic capacity to articulate them.

Cruz gave an absolute dynamite Wow! of a speech in Iowa.  Yet he has no executive, chief administrative experience of any kind – and that is what he, along with Rubio and Paul, lacks as a viable candidate.

What Cruz does not lack, incidentally, is constitutional viability to be president. 

There’s a birther argument claiming that because Cruz’s mother is American but his father is Cuban and he was born in Canada, this somehow violates the "natural born" Constitutional requirement. 

Why? Because, it’s claimed, "to be a natural born citizen one must be born on US soil to two US citizen parents."

Says who?  Certainly not the Constitution, which provides no definition of "natural born."  Certainly none of the Founders.  Certainly no judicial determination, most especially one of the Supreme Court.

The determining law in the matter is the Naturalization Act of 1790, passed by Congress shortly after the Constitution itself was ratified in 1789, and affirmed as law of the land ever since.  It states:

"And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens:  Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States."

Note that the law clearly does not state that both parents must be citizens – one will do. There is no law or judicial decision that says otherwise.

Cruz was a child of a citizen – his mother – and his father was a resident of the US for several years before they moved to Canada for a job, then returning to the US when Ted was four.  QED.

If Ted Cruz should be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016, I would be 100% all-up/all-in working for him.  He may indeed be the guy who will "reignite the Miracle of America."

And you certainly won’t catch me engaging in deontological Fiat justitia ruat caelum ("Let justice be done tho’ the heavens fall") all-that-counts-in-morality-is-following-the-rules sophistry to give me any qualms.

With all that said, we come to the presidential timber bottom line:  It’s gotta be a guv.  A governor who’s a proven success at applying conservative principles in his (or her) state.

For conservative executive success in a state has now become a necessary condition for curing the federalie sickness ruining our nation. I. e., only the 10^th Amendment can save America now.

There are five heavy-hitter contenders:  Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, and Scott Walker. 

The last thing conservatives need is a pro-amnesty, pro-Common Core champion of the RINO GOP Establishment – and the last thing America needs, other than the PIAPS, is a Third President Bush. 

So it’s hard to take Jeb’s aspirations seriously, yet we must.  Right now, Jeb is the most dangerous obstacle to getting a real 10^th Amendment conservative in the White House.

Of the five govs, the least viable is Chris Christie.  Not just because he’s no real conservative – the 10^th what?? – and loves to hold Zero’s hand, but because he’s been a failure at reviving New Jersey’s depressed economy.  That’s strike three.

By contrast, Rick Perry has presided over Texas as the most booming economy in all 50 states.  His disaster run in 2012, overdrugged with medication after serious back surgery and ghastly underprepared, is a heavy handicap. 

But don’t underestimate Rick now – particularly when he starts banging away on 10^th Amendment solutions to America’s problems.

Bobby Jindal is currently presiding over another boom economy in Louisiana.  But has he got that ineffable presidential gravitas required?  When Rick Perry walks into a room, he owns the room.  Jindal doesn’t.

Does Scott Walker?  He sure did in Iowa.  Walker’s "Go big and go bold" speech, striding the stage in shirtsleeves and no notes, blew everybody away, catapulting him into front-runner status with conservatives.

Walker sure blew Rush Limbaugh away, who said: 

"Scott Walker wowed them in Iowa… I believe Scott Walker is the blueprint for the Republican Party if they are serious about beating the left. Scott Walker has shown how to do it… he went pedal-to-the-metal, wall-to-wall conservatism with charisma and bold ideas and solutions based on his own policies….

Scott Walker has shown the Republican Party how to beat the left.  Scott Walker has the blueprint for winning and winning consistently and winning big in a blue state with conservative principles that are offered with absolutely no excuses. 

The left, the Democrat Party, threw everything at Scott Walker trying to destroy him.  They did everything they could.  He not only withstood it all, he survived and triumphed over all of it."

Walker’s triumph over the criminally insane public unions in Blue Wisconsin is a heroic saga.  Could he be the guy to triumph over the criminal insanity of the Democrat Party and Federal Bureaucracy in Washington? 

At least and at last, we have someone with whom that might be possible.  More so than even with Ted Cruz, for Scott Walker has an actual real track record of doing it, and in a blue state. 

That’s the difference, the doing.  That’s why it’s gotta be a guv.  And right now, that guv looks like he’s the Governor of Wisconsin.

Ps:  Speaking of governors – and speaking of successful Republican women governors  – do not be in the least surprised if a successful Republican Hispanic governor in a blue state (think about that combo), namely New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, is on the GOP 2016 ticket. 

She is the first female Hispanic governor in US history, endorsed by Sarah Palin, and reelected last November with 58% of the vote.

Note that last week (1/22) she asked the state legislature to repeal the law granting drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens.  Walker-Martinez 2016?

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