Posted on 03/23/2015 12:31:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The senator from Texas prepares to reprise his tea party insurgent strategy as he launches a White House bid.
As the firebrand freshman senator from Texas launches his presidential campaign Monday, he will draw heavily upon his experience in 2012, when he shocked the GOP establishment and toppled a better known and better-funded opponent in a tea-party fueled primary win.
Then, as now, Cruz began as a blip in the polls. Then, as now, he planned to run as an unbending conservative champion. Then, as now, the establishment was against him. Then, as now, he knew he would be outspent.
Then, he won. Now, he's trying to do it again, this time on an even bigger stage.
Cruz, 44, will be the first major Republican candidate to formally jump into the 2016 presidential sweepstakes, a Cruz adviser confirmed. As long as he remains in the race, Cruz is unlikely to be outflanked on the right by his rivals. Cruz has taken hardline conservative positions on social issues, fiscal policy, foreign policy, immigration, opposing President Obama, and more.
Ahead of his White House bid, Cruz has signaled his intent to win the hearts and votes of evangelical Republicans, tea party Republicans, and libertarian Republicans alike in 2016—pretty much everyone except those catering to the "mushy middle" that he complains has dominated the GOP for too long. Polls show that the tea party hero begins the race as an underdog, not just in the Republican primary but (should he win) against expected Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
The son of a pastor, as he often reminds audiences, Cruz launched his presidential bid by appealing to the GOP's influential evangelical base, announcing his campaign at Liberty University, the Virginia school founded by Christian conservative Jerry Falwell.
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2016 or 2020? Heck, he’s young enough, maybe a third term in 2024?
He doesn’t have to beat the GOPe, he as to beat the crony capitalists who prop up the GOPe.
Flashback:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2898469/posts
I remeber watching this debate online and thinking that Cruz was very impressive.
He can articulate Conservatism’s appeal to the common man american without falling into the trap that is the media’s narritive on what it means to be conservative.
He doesn;t apologize for his positions like he is “forced into them” like when the Jebster pretends to be “conservative”...
The question we need to keep asking these GOP establishment flakes is how are they different than Democrats. With Cruz the difference is obvious.
I'm A Cruz Crusader !!
The mediots will try to marginalize him to 2nd tier status immediately.
I'm all in with Cruz, but he should beware, the GOP assassins will be out in force with a bounty for his head -- and there are more of them then patriots in DC.
Well he’s got my vote and support. I am sick of the mushy middle and even the slightly right of mushy middle.
And the MSM. He has to beat them too.
Testing
Yes, sadly true.
Cruz may be our last chance to keep what liberty we have left. I’m buying in, with my hard-earned money and by volunteering in his local branch.
Quiet no longer. Tolerant no longer. Robbed no longer.
Careful!!!
Security is broken on that site, for my browser anyway. The lock symbol is open with and exclamation sign.
“They will call him “freshman senator” a lot. You never heard that with Obama. And that will probably be the nicest thing the media calls him.
Careful!!!
Security is broken on that site, for my browser anyway. The lock symbol is open with and exclamation sign.
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When you get to the donate page (see below) the ‘s’ (security) is at the end of the ‘http’. So it should be OK. If you’re getting some sort of security alert on that page, you should notify the website.
https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/
He beat a Texas GOP candidate. Not the national GOP organization with it’s money and power.
In 1980, the semi-final was the real hockey team battle...that’s how I look at Cruz...the primary is the biggie; if he can get past Bush and the media in the primary, he can win over the country.
I sent my envelope in today.
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