Posted on 03/23/2015 3:48:51 AM PDT by iowamark
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)[95%] will today announce he is running for President.
At our very first RedState Gathering, Ted Cruz showed up. He was the Solicitor General of Texas. I did not know him, but he’d gone to law school with a friend and several other friends highly recommended him.
He stood on stage to speak along with another guy named Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)[82%].
Both of them dazzled the crowd in Atlanta. They both got repeated standing ovations. They both took questions from the crowd and never made a misstep. I hope they will both return to Atlanta this year for the 2015 RedState Gathering.
Rubio entered the Senate that year. Cruz did not. He had to wait. In the Senate, the two have found triumphs in different areas. Cruz’s has been defined by the hashtag #makedclisten. His championing of that idea has opened the eyes of many on just how badly D.C. does not listen.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have had any motivation to listen to the public. Cruz went to D.C., but did not become a part of D.C. as so many have.
There are critics on the right who say, “name one thing Ted Cruz has done for America. What policy position has he gotten passed.” The measure of a conservative should be not what has he gotten passed, but what has he stopped.
Cruz, in the Senate, has not stopped everything, but he has stopped some things. He has helped lead House members to stop other things. He has shown himself a leader of the conservative movement. He has shown himself willing to stand athwart history and yell stop. He has shown an appreciation for the idea that not every man need go to Washington to get things done. Some must go to stop things from getting done.
Ironically, he will now campaign for President on what he can do for the country. I look forward to hearing his vision of what America will look like after four years of a Cruz Administration.
Welcome into the arena, Senator.
On my local talk radio this morning they were bringing up that he was born in Canada, but that since his mother was a citizen that makes him one, end of story.
i.e. it starts. ;-)
Viva Senator Cruz for POTUS! The spirit of Reagan and Buckley lives within him.
"A conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop'."
What a treat to have a person running for President who is in command of the issues, who is informed, who is experienced and who LOVES America.
Thanking God that Senator Cruz has decided to run. He is already my President! May The Lord Bless him and keep him in his efforts to rule the great United States of America by the constitution it was founded on!
Send $$$ to Ted TODAY.
It will send a strong message and he needs your support.
Amazing how attention towards one politician over another can change so quickly. A few months or so ago, Hitlary was the big attention getter UNTIL the SHTF and her email scandal surfaced. Then, “Walker” was the headline for another month and his successes were highlighted all over the place. Today, Ted Cruz announced that HE is entering the presidential race and the world begins to turn counter- clockwise. What will it be next month when Warren decides to jump in for the demodummies. The bottom line will be WHO the demodummies and the rino’s decide they want to represent and all the rhetoric will have been for naught.
After Obama that stuff is going exactly nowhere. I’m over it.
After Obama that stuff is going exactly nowhere. I’m over it.
But there is an interesting double standard in the MSM. i.e. I’m interested in seeing where they try to take it.
I’ve resolved the whole thing in my mind thusly: If you are a citizen because you had to apply for and subsequently acquire citizenship, you are a citizen.
If you are a citizen from birth, without the need to apply for citizenship, you are a “natural born” citizen.
End of story.
I’m a big fan of Senator Cruz. Like me, he’s a big fan of the Constitution.
So, next time I get the chance, I plan to ask him how NASA (which the Houston native supports) is constitutional.
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