Posted on 03/23/2015 1:36:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
If there is such a thing as being too conservative to be elected president of the United States, Ted Cruz is having none of it.
Announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination Monday at Liberty University, the first-term senator from Texas offered himself as the pure essence of conservatism and challenged the tea party and evangelical wings of the Republican Party to rise up behind one of their own and take control of the party and the country.
His candidacy is a test of a proposition, one that he has carried across the country for many months. He has argued that the party failed to win the White House not because it has become too conservative but because Republicans have nominated politicians who were not conservative enough, who could not carry the message of today’s conservatism with energy, optimism and authenticity.
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Absolutely!! dead ON!
/johnny
there one Positive entry?
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Rand Paul.... Taps Liberty Movement Leader As Iowa Political Director
theyre Paulines....
Yep, and dishonestly so.
theyre as transparent as Obie!!
Didn’t like that about his old man and don’t like it about him. Disingenuous if not down right dishonest.
You are correct but I think it goes beyond that. I think that the Obambi faction is actively going after her. They are in a knock down drag out struggle to take control of the Democrat Party. Any time you see a progressive attacked in a progressive rag like Salon, you know that there's trouble afoot in Marxist Land.
Just signed up. Thanks for the link.
I’m ready to Restore America! GodBlessTheUSA!
Good way to put it. Indeed.
Cruz truly understands that our Liberties are under assault from the left and the GOPe.
He will be fearless against the upcoming onslaught.
The Left, Progressives, Dems, and ‘moderate’ Pubbies are reeling from Cruz’s Shock and Awe.
Good thing they are mostly writing him off and not seriously considering him as a viable candidate.
So what if he is the only one to officially announce.
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[It is entertaining to watch the heads exploding. And he didn’t even use a teleprompter!!!! The audacity!!!!]
Agreed. The Rats are out to get her. I’m sure she knows this. Get your pop corn ready. This should be fun.
That's exactly what he did and the country WILL rise up behind him.
My point (and tag line) has been that, given the demographic trends, whites no longer can afford to split their vote. They need to unify to some extent around a candidate in November. 55/45 Republican may have worked ok 50 years ago, when just about the only people voting were whites, but it doesn’t stand a chance today. Even 60/40 Republican is probably not enough. 65/35 Republican is now the white vote required for a Republican to win.
How to get that vote: You don’t get it by sounding like a Democrat, because the whites on the margin will then simply vote Democrat, as they will always have more handouts to offer. You get that by making whites feel proud of the candidate and country (in a non-racist way, of course), and only a conservative can do that. We will get castigated for doing it, but we will lose if we don’t - so we have no choice.
Otherwise we’ll simply keep repeating 2008/2012 over and over.
I agree. He convinced me this morning
Excellent!
God bless and keep you and everyone you love.
Thank you for your blessing!
What gets me, Onyx, is that critics call Cruz an extremist, a crazy. In fact, it is Obama who is the extremist. What Cruz believes is what our Founding Fathers believed!
We need to take pride in being called an extremist, a right wing nut by our critics. I’m tired of being defensive
You’re precisely right!
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