Posted on 03/24/2015 8:41:50 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
You could call him the Texas Reagan.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is announcing today that he is a candidate for president.
The announcement will come in a speech at Liberty University, the famous Virginia school founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. There will be no “exploratory committee,” with Cruz moving straight to an announcement of candidacy. This will make the Texas son of a Cuban immigrant and one-time star of Harvard Law School the first officially declared candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
In a conversation with The American Spectator, Cruz made it plain that he intends to pursue a 21st-century version of the insurgency strategy pioneered by the late Ronald Reagan. Bringing together the Reagan wing of the GOP that is composed of national security, social, pro-growth, and libertarian conservatives. The Reagan coalition broadened the base of the party to bring in everyone from evangelicals to women to union workers to Latinos. Reagan’s nomination battles in both 1976 (when he almost defeated GOP Establishment favorite and sitting president Gerald Ford) and 1980 (when he defeated Establishment favorite George H.W. Bush) summoned a virtual army of supporters who had previously never spent a day in politics.
This would be well in keeping with Cruz’s record in the Senate, where Cruz has stood in decidedly Reagan-style against the Republican Washington Establishment, notably with his bold plan to defund Obamacare in 2013. That line-in-the-sand tactic, something Reagan used repeatedly as candidate and president to draw a bright red line between Republicans and Democrats, was furiously assaulted by many of Cruz’s Republican Senate colleagues and most of the Establishment GOP, with some GOP senators going out of their way to deliberately sabotage the Cruz effort to defund the highly unpopular mandatory health program.
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Reagan was a lot smarter that people realize. You should read both his autobiography and the journal he kept during his presidency.
Cruz has a clear and correct concept of the Constitution — based on his legal work to date.
But as for all the elements of character, worldview and experience which are the makings of a desirable President — that is where background and career matter. We know Reagan had the right character and experience. Cruz we mostly know what his legal career has been to date, and what he tells us.
I suspect that Cruz would be a capable President. He seems like a smart guy, and seems to have a toughness about him which the job requires. But he is not, in my estimation a well rounded individual.
BUT, for better or worse, you and I will have only choice in November 2016 — to either vote for the Republican nominee (whoever it is) or not.
Now so far, I have voted for the Republican candidate in every Presidential election since 1976. Not because I’m a Republican (I’m not) and not because I like the Republicans (I don’t) I simply despise the Democrats with every fiber of my being.
I don’t like that Cruz is a lawyer. I don’t like that his father was from Cuba or that his mother’s family had mob connections. I don’t like that he has no background in the military, any kind of sports or in business. Heck, near as I can tell he was never even in the Boy Scouts.
But so far he looks a damn sight better than most of the Republican other candidates out there. And far more desirable than any Democrat.
Reagan was the last of the great Americans. When he left office the nation and the world were looking at prosperity and promise.
How did things go so dreadfully wrong?
“Bah,” I say in a FRiendly tone of voice. And “humbug.”
Yes, actually he was. His writings are pure genius, he just wasn't given credit by the media and even his peers. Maggie knew, though.
You know....that's actually a better idea then what we think it is.....
:)
If we do it in the right way, it will be effective.
We need to throw their nonsense right back at them and use it to our advantage.
I love Reagan, but he’s dead and not coming back. Reagan’s ghost is causing a lot of problems because people are waiting for him to be reincarnated when there future requires a new kind of conservative.
I like Ted Cruz. Do I think he has the potential to be a great president? Possibly. However, just because his life differs from Reagan’s on this or that doesn’t mean anything.
The irony is I’ll guarantee you come 40 years from now if he ends up rising to the challenge, people will be complaining about how America “needs another Ted Cruz.” and everyone since is a CINO.
Nor was he Cuban or a Texan.
What a difference ....
Bush1 .....- “kinder gentler conservative”
Bush2 .....- “ compassionate conseravative”
Cruz ....... - “COURAGEOUS CONSERVATIVE”
Its about time our leaders stop apologizing for American Exceptionalism....and one of the characteristics of America is that we have always been kinder gentler and compassionate! When our Marines go house to house instead of our Air Force flattening a place like Fallujah, it is precisely because we are trying to save every possible human being possible, even if it means giving our lives for our fellow man...EVEN when that persons hates US.
YES ITS TIME FOR COURAGEOUS CONSERVATISM.
“How did things go so dreadfully wrong?”
ESTABLISHMENT Republicans
AKA.... WHORES!!
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