Posted on 03/23/2015 9:14:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A seismic shift? Things will change now that Sen. Ted Cruz has entered the White House race, some say.
Every Republican candidate for president will have to move significantly to the right, starting with Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. Theyll have to define their position on amnesty for illegal aliens, on fighting and winning the war radical Islam has declared on America, on spending, the deficit and the debt, and on repealing Obamacare - against the positions Ted Cruz will talk about and campaign on in the coming months, predicts longtime conservative maven Richard Viguerie.
They will all have to move right to respond to Cruz, or be left behind by a grassroots conservative electorate fed-up with Republican candidates who are merely principle-free messengers for an out of touch Washington elite, he continues. Cruz is the first top-tier movement conservative candidate since Reagan for three reasons that separate him immediately from the rest of the Republican pack.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Unfortunately, as an ancient wag once said, "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride."
I think Ted Cruz is s brilliant conservative and he is my first choice for POTUS. It would be nice to see a real conservative on the Republican ticket and as the POTUS.
2ndDivisionVet wrote:
“This early announcement is sounding more and more like a brilliant masterstroke as the day goes on.”
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