Posted on 03/22/2015 6:22:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He’s going to skip the exploratory committee and go straight for the jugular.
Ted Cruz plans to run for president.
The Houston Chronicle broke the news just before midnight Saturday evening, citing senior advisers speaking on the condition of anonymity who said that Cruz, the Texas Tea Party Republican elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, would pursue the presidency.
The announcement would make Cruz the first Republican to officially declare his candidacy.
Cruz will announced his candidacy at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in Virginia, the Chronicle reported.
The senior advisers cited by the Chronicle said Cruz aims to raise some $40 to $50 million, and he will run as an unabashedly conservative candidate, in contrast to the “mushy middle” Republicans he’s criticized in the past.
Cruz has strong support among the conservative base, as several high-profile polls have shown.
In a Drudge Report poll released at the beginning of February, Cruz took the No. 2 spot among likely presidential contenders, behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. In the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll at the end of February, Cruz came in third behind Walker and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
Full title: Ted Cruz Is Planning to Take the White House — and He’s About to Pull a Move That Leapfrogs the Competition
Ted is the reason Jethro started the campaign a year early.
The GOP oligarchy is terrified of Ted.
The LSM are not going to be happy...
Jethro the RINOsaur?
One can safely bet that the GOP will begin smearing
Sen. Cruz-the-Patriot through their surrogates.
It will probably be the same ones that went after Gov. Palin
and her children for Loser-coward Bishop RomneyCARE.
I’m all in for Cruz - but that said - I no longer have faith in the system the Ruling Class oligarchy and the Dictatorship have corrupted for themselves.
Our problems go beyond what one man elected to high office can fix.
Sadly - politicians are a reflection of the society from which they come.
That’s the one!
/johnny
A test between Cruz and Bush isn’t a contest.
We could certainly fix that in one or two weeks if we all hopped in our cars and trucks with our rifles, pistols, pitchforks, hempen rope, quarterstaffs, tar & feathers and rails. Why don’t we? Would our grandparents have paled at being called racist, xenophobic, homophobic or revolutionaries?
Ted Cruz keeps getting filtered through the corrupted media.
He’s pretty bold and fearless and when many fairly decent, non-political citizens get to hear him directly we shall see what becomes of it.
$2,600 + $2,600 from a spouse, IIRC.
“citing senior advisers speaking on the condition of anonymity”
Unless it is planned, why leak? What else would they leak>
FINALLY!!!!!!!!
Someone who represents US/U.S.
I was always a junior aide rather than a senior advisor, so that’s “above my paygrade” to quote a cerain person.
I’m on for it. It is imperative that we all get behind a conservative candidate early-on and show the RINOs and the office-buying donors that Jeb the shrub, the huckster, or any of those other worthless GOPe my-turners won’t get the support of the base.
I've already said that FR and Cruz are the ONLY ones to get money from me.
/johnny
HOORAY Ted Cruz!
Let’s see.
Ted has shut down the Government all by himself just for fun.
He hates Latinos and wants to deport them all, Legal or Illegal.
He is a Racist that Hates Obama simply because he is (sort of) Black.
He purposely scares Three Year Old Girls at Town Hall Meetings.
His Wife works for an Investment Bank and she probably caused the Financial Crisis back in 2008.
His Father was a Communist sympathizer when he was a Teenager in Cuba. Bad if you’re a Republican like Cruz, great if you’re a Democrat like Obama.
Well, those are the Headlines we will be seeing for the next few Weeks if Senator Cruz does announce his Candidacy for POTUS.
As for me, the Cruz 2016 Sticker will look great on the rear window of my Red Dodge Challenger.
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