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CRUZ or LOSE!Posted on 04/19/2015 12:49:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Presidential politics first captured Heidi Nelson Cruz’s attention in the 1980s, when the 12-year-old read a Time magazine piece about the Ronald Reagan-Walter Mondale race while working at her San Luis Obispo bread stand.
She would later become a Capitol Hill intern, a policy aide on the George W. Bush campaign and economic director for the Western Hemisphere with the National Security Council. But while government and politics might have been her calling at one time, nothing in her background could have prepared her for the summer of 2013, when her husband, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, helped force a shutdown of the federal government.
“We were blessed to go to good schools and have careers that Ted and I enjoyed,” said Heidi Cruz. “But we were in no way well known.”
That all changed, of course, when the newly elected Republican senator from Texas waged a campaign — culminating with a 21-hour speech on the Senate floor — to defund President Barack Obama’s health care program. His ardent stance brought nightly media attention, praise from supporters on the right and harsh criticism from the left.
While he became a darling of the Tea Party — fueling talk of what has become his presidential run now — critics called him “a fraud,” “self-aggrandizing” and “nutty.”
Those words might have bothered some, Heidi Cruz said, but not her husband....
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CRUZ or LOSE!Good for her, she’ll be an able campaigner.
Too bad she isn’t from Santa Cruz. Oh, the visuals.
She’s a lovely woman and will make a good first lady. Heidi please get rid of the color chart painting in the dining room. :-)
“Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, helped force a shutdown of the federal government.”
When a neighbor repeated this canard, I played dumb and said, “How exactly does a member of Congress shut down the government? I mean specifically — how?”
The look on his face was priceless. They have heard this so many times in the MSM it never occurs to them to actually look into it.
Very unusual background. It will be interesting to see what the MSM does with this should Cruz get the nomination. I find her appealing, but I can just anticipate the cracks that will be made about her by the “sophisticates” out there.
She’s no Michelle.
OMG!!! Blond, blue eyed, two attractive children, we can’t have that in the white house. What would Christmas look like there without condoms on the tree? What are they trying to do, bring back old America? We can’t have that. If Cruz was elected, just think of how all the homeless people will suddenly appear from their hiding places of the past 6 years and return to the streets of America like wandering Zombies. (They are like 17 Year Locust Cicada that only appear when a Republican is in office.) Well, mark my word, it won’t take long before the “unbiased” MSM ridicules her as an airhead Stepford wife.
That’s true. Heidi has more class.
Wow, what an amazing family with such a large number of highly educated and successful people who so very generous to others and unabashed about their Christianity. You couldn’t find a more opposite person to the current miserable, America-hating witch in the White House today.
Good luck with that. You don’t get where she is in the private sector without brains and Class.
Heidi Cruz for First Lady...
She’ll make an awesome First Lady!
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