Posted on 12/11/2014 2:18:14 PM PST by PROCON
Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz gave a major foreign-policy speech at the Heritage Foundation critiquing the disastrous nature of what he labeled as the “Obama-Clinton” approach to the subject. His desire to lay out his foreign-policy views in detail at such a venue as well as his focus on Clinton was a clear indication of something that is not exactly a secret: he’s planning on running for president in 2016. Members of his party’s establishment, which generally despises him as much as his fellow senators and the liberal media, do not take Cruz’s ambition too seriously. But as much as it seems unlikely that he will be taking the presidential oath at the Capitol in January 2017, that establishment should be a lot more afraid of Cruz than they seem to be. Anyone who thinks he will not be a formidable primary contender is paying more attention to the media caricature of Cruz than the facts.
Let’s start by conceding that Cruz’s well-earned image as a Senate bomb-thrower and his truculent public personality makes him a poor bet as a general-election candidate. Being a true believer is an asset in a primary but his uncompromising style won’t win many independent or crossover voters. Just as important, Cruz not only sounds ornery much of the time, he generally looks it too–and in the television era it’s far from clear that Americans will ever again elect someone who doesn’t strike them as being nice or personable. But let’s put those issues aside for a moment and consider Cruz’s chances of winning the Republican nomination in a context in which liberal media bias as well as the imperative of winning the center won’t be as decisive as they would be in a general election.
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Cruz has my vote.
Being from Mass though my vote is usually meaningless in federal elections...
I WILL be sending $$$ that i don’t really have though.
I stand with Cruz.
Tobin creeps with Obama and the Moslem Brotherhood.
ON Please.
Thanks
I want to see Jeb, Mitt and Christie in the race. Let the quislings divide their resources for a change while we unite behind Cruz.
Do you have a response to a FReeper’s post #14?
I wish FR had a thumbs up option for your post.
As for the hispanic vote, he doesn't need any more of that than the GOP typically gets. What he needs to win is 60% of the white vote, and he'll get that by being unapologetically American, speaking to all Amdricans and not pandering by race.
Ted Cruz has been fighting for the Constitution and the freedom it stands for for his two years.
I'm with the one who fights.
Most all the others on “my side” are just present, save for a handful.
The article stretches way far on negative perceptions of Ted Cruz.
Reagan received that treatment too.
May our nation turn and may God bless us again.
Amen.
The GOP establishment claims Cruz is “extreme” and “strident” and “unelectable,” but put Cruz in a debate with all of the “moderate” candidates of either party and he will impress independents and even some Democrats with his intelligence.
When liberals call Cruz unelectable, you know they fear him. It is precisely because they think he is electable that they try to demonize him before the public has a chance to make up its own mind based on its own perceptions.
He is wonderful, smart, well spoken, he is my senator. If he runs for President, I will walk door to door for him, or whatever it takes to get the vote for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent Comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
add me to Ted Cruz ping list please!
Some GOPe tried their hardest to keep Cruz from going to Washington.
John Boehner is EXTREMELY DRUNK!
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