Posted on 01/13/2015 3:50:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Without giving too much away, Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday morning that he’s giving his own presidential aspirations a close look in advance of 2016.
“It’s certainly something I’m looking at very seriously, and I think we’re at a time of enormous challenge,” Cruz told FOX & Friends. “We are starting a national debate this year about the direction of the Republican party and about the direction of the country. I think the challenges facing us — they’ve never been greater. The Obama economy, it’s not working. Obamacare is a disaster. Our constitutional rights are under assault from Washington. And as we look abroad, it seems like the entire world is on fire right now.”
Cruz’s comments come a day after he delivered a well-received speech at the Heritage Foundation that explored both domestic and foreign policy issues. The Texas Republican pushed for a conservative agenda and cautioned against the “business as usual” politics of D.C. he has cautioned against frequently.
“For all the Republicans saying ‘let’s get things done,’ if we simply settle into business as usual in this town … we will demoralize the millions of men and women who came out in November,” Cruz said.
A bevy of other Republicans have publicly or reportedly talked about their 2016 prospects in recent days, with Sen. Marco Rubio (undecided) and Rep. Paul Ryan (out) commenting, and speculation rising that former Republican nominee Mitt Romney will launch a third consecutive bid. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was the first potential contender to make an obvious move toward running.
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Behind every great man is a great woman. They know time is short to save our Republic. Lord, send them into victory for you! We will fight like lions when the time comes!
The day he throws his hat in the ring will be a great one.
Ted speaks the truth, urgently, people respond to his imploring for help to turn this Nation around. There’s no ego in that guy, just a burning conviction to restore the USA.
The bad guys don’t know what to do with it.
...”The bad guys don’t know what to do with it”...
Exactly.....his passion does not come from the next seat holds or retains...that is secondary to why he seeks to hold it.
Conviction does not come from outside ourselves...it’s given and as long as he understands who his cource is of that conviction he’s do well, ...and when he doesn’t God will turn it wround favorable in his time and palce.
I sure hope he runs....otherwise I haven’t seen anyone else I would care to support.
...”Lord, send them into victory for you! We will fight like lions when the time comes!”....
That’s so true....may God in His mercy let it be so.
I just hope he can feel our love and support!
Godspeed, Ted!
My opinion? Foolish post. You could not have been following this man for the last couple of years.
“The main one is the same primary problem I have with virtually all of the presumed candidates, and that is their support for what I would characterize as “and then you can kill the baby” bills such as NRTL’s “fetal pain” legislation.”
The laws you refer to chip away at abortion rights within the realm of Roe. Unless you’re advocating revolution as a cure, it isn’t these laws allowing abortion, it’s Roe.
You opposed HB2 in a Texas on the SAME grounds (the Bill Wendy Davis filibustered) and in part because of that bill, our local abortion clinic shut down.
Praise God, there are no abortions happening in my community any longer. You oppose that.
You would oppose that because conservatives voted for laws that allowed some abortion, not on principle, but to chip away at Roe as much as possible. I can’t fathom your all or nothing approach that would rather see more abortions as preferable to anything but none at all.
The murder clinic in my community was forced to close down in the past year. I don’t give a rat’s crap about your intellectual posturing. IT’S A VICTORY.
And not a single child, much less all of them as the supreme law of our land requires, is secured against being murdered, even after your wonderful “victory.” Just do it on schedule and by your rules.
It used to be that conservatives cared about the morality and constitutionality of our laws.
There is no candidate that will ever live up to your standards, but you.
Every viable candidate has to court votes. You draw a line that hold candidates liable for working around Roe AS IF those limitations are their personal viewpoints. Your bar is too high for anybody, except you.
A candidate that would advocate splitting the hairs you split wouldn’t get very many votes, something you might know something about (and as a failed candidate for office myself, I don’t suggest that lightly).
The anti-lifers certainly would not support a pro-life candidate and the pro-lifers won’t accept a candidate that refuses to fight for life on philosophical grounds. Your view would alienate every vote, on both sides of this issue, except your own.
You should run again. It’s the only way your viewpoint that reducing abortions is supporting abortions will be represented.
A lot of people here haven’t been following Cruz, or are not in severe DEFCON alert about how our Republic is hanging by a thread. God hands us the solution on a silver platter and a head-scratching number of FReepers don’t see it.
That’s ok, we’ll pick up the slack.
This isn’t about me, or Ted Cruz, or any candidate for that matter. It’s much bigger than that. It’s about the most fundamental principles upon which the survival of this free republic depends: God-given, unalienable rights and equal protection under the law.
You say we can keep compromising those principles away for the sake of some Utilitarian mirage, a “strategy” that has failed utterly for more than forty years, and I say we can’t.
I don't support abortions.
But "fetal pain" bills do. They give express permission in the statutes to kill babies, as long as you do it right.
Wake up.
In 2009, I sat on a stage with four other GOP candidates for US Congress. When asked the question, Is abortion a State or Federal issue, four candidates said it was a States Rights issue.
Only one, me, said its a federal issue. Specifically, it’s a Natural Right from God to be born, and that right is acknowledged (not granted) by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution.
Don’t lecture me about morals.
We have strayed far from the Constitution. We don’t have a wayback machine. We can’t blink our government back into its Constitutional box. It’ll have to be walked back, through unsavory grounds.
The standard you have to hold candidates to for office isn’t will every vote be strictly Constitutional. No candidate can give you that unless they vote NO on every vote. No. The question is will every vote walk us back towards the Constitutional box. There is no slippery slope there. Standing up for the Constitution means fighting to get us back to that standard.
It means something more than wishing and then complaining about unfulfilled dreams.
I tell you that there are no more abortions in my community and call that a victory. You call it a so-called victory. We don’t disagree on principles. We disagree whether those principles are worth engaging in a fight, not on some ideal sacred ground, but where we are. Today.
The thread is about Ted Cruz. You dissed him because he doesn’t support your weird philosophy that morality dictates we not fight at all.
I want a candidate not nearly so easily disarmed as you.
You can’t restore the Constitution by supporting legislation that you know is unconstitutional.
I didn’t “diss” Ted Cruz. I disagreed with him. Sorry you can’t tell the difference.
We’re never going to get anywhere near saving this country if we keep putting personalities or politics before principle.
You say that I’m disarmed. But you claim that you’re going to fight for the right to life after you’ve laid down the only real weapons against abortion, which are the laws of nature and nature’s God, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the stated purposes of the Constitution, and its explicit equal protection requirements.
Good luck with that.
DITTO THAT! No one could have said it better.
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