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Posted on 04/22/2015 12:56:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Picking another establishment GOP presidential nominee in the mold of Mitt Romney, John McCain or Bob Dole to run against Democrats in 2016 will guarantee that Hillary Clinton wins the White House, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz told Newsmax TV on Wednesday.
"It will in effect be a third term for Barack Obama," the Texas Republican said in an exclusive interview with "MidPoint" host Ed Berliner.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
As president, said Cruz, he would put an end to the domestic and foreign policies of President Barack Obama, both of which he said have been a "disaster."
As a primary candidate, he said, he is on "a very short list" of contenders who have fought for core conservative values on every critical policy front, from efforts to repeal Obamacare to confronting the mullahs of Iran....
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LOL
I don’t think I can be any more energized!
Count me in: Cruz or Lose!!
You hang tough, Johnny! You’re one of the good guys!
Nope. Those days are gone. The blame will be squarely on corrupt RINO leadership, RINO politicians, RINO candidates and Charlie Brown Republican voters who were too stupid to learn the critical lesson of the last two presidential elections and the 2014 mid-terms.
Cruz appears to be clearly the most conservative of the bunch, despite his being a damned Senator.
I’m going with him, so far.
Cruz is completely correct. And Cruz has energized the Republican voter base on a scale we haven’t seen since 1980.
Well, then, keep us “energized” by taking it to the left and the MSM.
My bad, you are so correct
He's just not as conservative as some would have him be and he's already shown a tendency to say what he thinks his audience wants to hear...as in the ethanol subsidies...it just depends on where he is at the time.
As far as Jeb, he ain't no conservative...period.
Did Romney want to win, you ask?
I sincerely believe he did, but he thought his Milquetoast approach would appeal across the board.
Once he saw that he was on a down hill trend, he tried to change, but it was too late...he had already been tagged as a candidate that would not hurt the feelings of his opponents and obama soared.
Of course, the dead rising from cemeteries around the US and the double voting and the absentee and live vote manipulations, etc, etc, did not help Romney, either.
As far as McCain...what the hell can anyone say...he scared me and I'm a rabid conservative, with drool and all.
I still voted for him, once he became the nominee.
I will support, campaign and vote for Ted Cruz.
And to go one step beyond that, if, by some chance the idiots in the Republican Party are too damned stupid to nominate him, I'll still vote for the nominee, because the alternative scares me even more.
Cruz scares them, because he has a consistent message, everyday, all the time...a Christian Conservative Candidate, unashamed to profess his beliefs and calls it as he sees it.
I'm anxious to see how he handles some of the truly stupid questions being thrown around, such as "would you attend a gay wedding?"...which is immaterial as hell and I really don't give a rat's ass if he did nor not, but I do give a rat's ass if he cares whether or not Iran has a nuke.
Still early. So early, that I would not be surprised if Hillary was not the dimbulb party nominee.
Hey, it could happen.
I appreciate your comment but as I mentioned, DC will not fix itself so the fight, as you put it, ought to be with the ruling elite (corporate cronies and banksters) who control the DC establishment who control the rest of what goes on in DC. I believe at some point that fight will have to be fought if this nation is to survive as our Founders envisioned and as they prescribed in the Constitution.
He’s got my vote, even if they try to foist another socialist rino upon US!
” Walker doesn’t energize. The base is energized by Ted Cruz. Ted is the real deal. “
The base won’t be electing the next president , either. In fact, the base has been unsuccessful in even electing the nominee of the Republican Party.
Let that sink in, why don’t you.
As for Walker, he is energizing enough to be #1 against Bush, so far, and rather broadly supported or he wouldn’t be pacing Jeb Bush. Cruz will hope to do the same, because he certainly can not dwell in the base all the time and expect to win anything, but your admiration.
Moderates aren’t really the issue and frankly like sheep they are more likely to follow the strong horse. The real question is if Cruz wins the nomination will the GOPers only refuse to help, or actively campaign against him.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz gave an honest answer to a gay-themed question Thursday.
“Well, I will tell you, I haven’t faced that circumstance. I have not had a loved one go to a, have a gay wedding,” Cruz told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, who asked the senator if he would go to a gay wedding (Marco Rubio said yesterday that he would go to one).
“You know, at the end of the day, what the media tries to twist the question of marriage into is they try to twist it into a battle of emotions and personalities,” Cruz continued.
“And they try to make it say, so for example, you know, they routinely say well, gosh, any conservative must hate people who are gay. And as you know, that has nothing to do with the operative legal question. And listen, I’m a Christian, and the Scripture commands us to love everyone, and to love everyone, and all of us are sinners,” the Texas senator stated. “But the legal question, I’m a Constitutionalist. And under the Constitution, from the beginning of this country, marriage has been a question for the states. It has been a question for elected legislatures in each of the 50 states. And what we’ve seen in recent years from the left is the federal government and unelected federal judges imposing their own policy preferences to tear down the marriage laws of the states.”
“And so if someone is running for public office, it is perfectly legitimate to ask them their views on whether they’re willing to defend the Constitution, which leaves marriage to the states, or whether they want to impose their own extreme policy views like so many on the left are doing, like Barack Obama does, like Hillary Clinton does. That’s what we would be doing.”
This is Ted’s way of talking straight to the RNC and the Koch BROS., and the Establishment in DC.
Conservatives crawl through glass regularly and get spit in their eye, every four years. In this decadent culture, I’m not convinced things will change, or that we will ever install a Christian conservative in the White House, but we deserve not to be railroaded by the East Coast and DC Estabs, AGAIN.
None of our contenders are pro-aborts, choke point types, or cram down contraception types, or gay marriage facilitators, LIKE ROMNEY.
This means I’m voting this time and not leaving the ballot blank, or installing Hillary with a stupid write in.
One more reason for me to vote for him.
I know that. And you know that.
But there are always more than a few FReepers who will “remind” us that unless we vote for Jeb then we are throwing away our vote and giving the win to Hillary.
Is it his implication that Walker, Rubio, Paul, Perry are like McCain and Romney?
That would be a tough sell, anywhere outside FR.
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