Ted Cruz Opens 2016 As the Election's Self-Declared Conservative Champion

LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA—Ted Cruz's official campaign announcement was slow-rolled over the weekend with leaks and, ultimately, at midnight Monday, a tweet.

But on Monday morning, Cruz made his first official opening pitch at a special edition of one of Liberty University's weekly convocations. "I believe God is not done with America yet," he said. "I believe in you and the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America, and that is why today I am announcing that I'm running for president of the United States."

With his tweet and speech Monday, Cruz becomes the first major 2016 contender to officially enter the presidential race. And he's already redefining his style for the national stage.

In a departure from his more typical fire-and-brimstone rhetoric—he left out the assertion that "the whole world is on fire," one of his most used lines—Cruz delivered a decidedly optimistic speech that focused on the future, with only a few jabs at President Obama on what was the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. And he positioned himself as the GOP field's premiere religious conservative, talking up his family's troubled background and how his parents eventually found Christ.

Cruz opened his speech with his family story, praising his "pioneering computer-programmer" mother for overcoming a father "who drank far too much and frankly didn't think that women should be educated." It appeared to be his first move to position himself against the presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who will reportedly make her own glass-ceiling-shattering career a focus of her eventual campaign.

He also went into a rarely told story of his parents' problems with alcohol when he was young. "Imagine a young married couple living together in the 1970s, neither one of them has a personal relationship with Jesus," he said. "They have a little boy and they are both drinking far too much. They are living a fast life." From there, Cruz detailed his parents' religious awakening. "There are people who wonder if faith is real," he said. "I can tell you, in my family, there isn't a second of doubt, because were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, ... I would have been raised by a single mother without my father in the house."

In an unveiling of Cruz's more optimistic campaign strategy, he asked the students to "imagine, imagine millions of courageous conservatives across America rising up together to say, in unison, we demand our liberty."

And he hit on many conservative principles to loud cheers and applause: repealing Obamacare, abolishing the IRS, establishing a flat tax, securing Second Amendment rights, protecting the border, doing away with "every word of Common Core," defending "the sanctity of human life," upholding "the sacrament of marriage," and standing "unapologetically" with Israel. In a windup to his announcement, he asked the students to "imagine a president" who would uphold these conservative values. As he paced the stage, it appeared he was reciting his speech from memory, without a teleprompter or notes.

As the convocation got going ahead of Cruz's speech in the school's Vines Center, nearly full with a max capacity of more than 10,000, students sang along to the inspirational worship songs led by a student rock band. The audience wasn't all just for Cruz, though—Liberty hosts convocations three times a week, garnering a packed house nearly every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.

Founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, a leader of the religious right, the evangelical Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Virginia, makes an apt setting for Cruz to debut his conservative campaign.

Some of the reasons Cruz will not get 2016 traction.

CRUZ LAUNCHES ADS IN SPANISH: Immigration is Cruz’s weakness. He has said he would legalize illegals already here. That would be the end of any conservative majority in the country, and would extend the politics of Latin America north of Mexico.....Cruz sounds tough on immigration.....but is trying to mislead people about his ultimate position. (hat tip 9yearlurker)

The specter of "creeping latinosim" shadows the American way of life. Americans know.... no matter what they say, in the end, Cruz's tribal politics prevails...it's always "them" against us.

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BTW, anybody know when Texas conservative, Senator Cruz, speak out about this?

Subversive Texas Textbooks---distributed nationwide--- vilify conservative groups;

Breitbart Texas | 09/10/2014 | Merrill Hope / FR Posted by Rusty0604

In 2006, uber-liberal "Texas Rising" stated its mission: "developing an emerging generation of social justice-minded, informed and engaged leaders is essential to the long-term health of our communities and the development of progressive public policy in Texas."

...a sneak peak at the preliminary Social Studies textbook found including distortions, omissions and half-truths all passing for accurate high school US history...

And there's this gem: "The radical right consists of groups that sometimes gather under the flag of militant anticommunism. Often known as reactionaries, they denounce most forms of government regulation, including progressive taxation and restrictions and industry.Examples of political groups on the radical right are the John Birch Society, the National States & Rights party, The Christian Crusade, and the Tea Party movement." (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

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THIRD WORLD INFILTRATION College Board exams changed history answers... revisionist historians developed different answers to the question of what America’s story is about. From their perspective, at the heart of our country’s history—like the history of any other powerful nation—lies the pursuit of empire, of dominion over others. At its core, say the revisionists, America’s history is about our capacity for self-delusion, our endless attempts to justify raw power grabs with pretty fairy-tales about democracy. ....

NOTE WELL: This terrifying Third World revisionism is straight out of Third World textbooks---emphasizing the T/W effort to undermine US ntl security for the coming armed takeover.

The conniving T/W uses an ancient formula going back to Greco-Roman times---where savages, barbarians and thieves overrun a bountiful country lusting after its power and riches.

REFERENCE--- Some 10 years back, Texas schools started used Mexican textbooks for their backward illiterate Spanish-speaking students. Texas textbooks advocated the Mexican perspective including:

<><> anti-white, anti-capitalist anti-USA viewpoints;

<><> Mexican textbooks falsified US history,

<><> proselytized blood-thirsty La Raza savagery;

<><> using teaching as brainwashing;

<><> inculcating violent separatist, latino supremacy idealogy.

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