Why Ted Cruz Could Win in 2016

The American Conservative ^ | September 30, 2014 | Michael Tracey

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[my small voice]

Cruz, unlike the vast majority of so-called repubs out there, can actually communicate boldly and passionately and make sense.

[RIghtwardHo]

You can’t look at 1964 and extrapolate ANYTHING from it for 2016. You can’t even go back to the 90s.

Any analysis that does so is seriously flawed.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I love Ted Cruz and he is my favorite US Senator and would make an outstanding POTUS.

However he has two issues in common with the current POTUS which could come back to haunt him:

1) He wasn’t born in this country.
2) He is only a freshman senator.

[drypowder]

To restore liberty and the rule of law the US needs a staunch constitutionalist like Ted Cruz in the WH. Unfortunately the oligarchs will never allow it.

[Responsibility2nd]

Christie established a national profile early in his gubernatorial tenure on the strength of his attractively brash personality, and was well-positioned to marshal that into an extremely credible bid for 2016. Now, however, it appears he may not even end up running. (Though I don’t discount his chances completely.)

Tracey must have missed the fact that Christie was in Wisconsin last week stumping with Walker.

Christie will definitely run.

[SoConPubbie]

1) He wasn’t born in this country.
2) He is only a freshman senator.

Neither of which have anything to do with him having the capability of being a great President.

But thanks for weaving your concerning into your post!

[ArtDodger]

1) He wasn’t born in this country.
2) He is only a freshman senator.
These didn’t seem to hamper Obama in any way, for TWO terms!!

[kevkrom]

The author hangs a lot of weight on actual or potential criminal indictments of Christie, Walker, and Perry. The Walker and Perry cases are blatant politically-motivated jokes that will be tossed and leave both men stronger for having put the “cloud of suspicion” behind them. The Christie case might be potentially stronger, but nothing to dat indicates any direct link to Christie, so he’s either clean or good enough at covering himself that it doesn’t matter.

He does, however, raise good points about Cruz seeming to build a coalition of Republican-related interests without necessarily having GOP-E support.

[kevkrom]

1) He wasn’t born in this country.

But he is still a citizen by birth, which is the only definition of "natural born citizen" that has any legal weight.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yeah I don’t understand that at all how he can run if he was born in Canada, maybe someone can explain that to me.

[Don Corleone]

CRUZ = CROSS? Will America return to the CROSS?

[Responsibility2nd]

Is he a US citizen? He is? Well then. Case Closed.

And whatever you thought Natural Born Citizen refered to has been answered by hundreds of courts from locals to State and Federal - even the Supreme Court.

Cruz is therefore a NBC.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Don’t want to quibble over the legalities of the issue.

I personally believe Cruz constitutionally qualifies to be POTUS.

But...our side did make a big issue that BHO was only a freshman senator and the origin of his birth.

My uncle’s favorite saying...”what comes around, goes around.”

Can see this coming.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There is a huge reservoir of people out there eagerly awaiting the next Reagan.

Ted Cruz is as close as we’ve seen in awhile.

[Din Maker]

Well, the current occupant of the White House “fit the bill” on both of those and........ well, the rest is History.

[kevkrom]

But...our side did make a big issue that BHO was only a freshman senator and the origin of his birth.

As far as the origins of his birth, the circumstance were different. If Obama had been born outside the US, because his mother would have failed to meet certain criteria (having to do with age and residency) and his father was a non-citizen, he would not be entitled to birthright citizenship. Cruz's mother, however, did meet all of the legal requirements, so despite not being born in the US and to a non-citizen (at the time) father, he still qualified for birthright citizenship.

[Nabber]

“Yeah I don’t understand that at all how he can run if he was born in Canada, maybe someone can explain that to me”

Heard of Google? You ought to try it.....

[Din Maker]

2016 is looking like just the opposite of ‘08 and ‘12 when there was a gazillion conservatives running and one RINO. The conservatives split the votes, both years, and the RINO waltzed to the nomination. This time..................

THE CONSERVATIVE WING OF THE GOP NEEDS TO RALLY AROUND ONE CANDIDATE..... TED CRUZ and let the RINOs split up their votes and we will have a Conservative President elected in 2016. If we don’t put forward a bold candidate with fire in his belly and a conservative message, we will have a Democrat in the White House forever.